Goodbye 2014!

New Years Eve (a running narrative)

Nick Jonas on now, everyone singing along to "Jealous"

One Direction singing "Story of my Life". Everyone singing along, here and in the audience. GREAT song. GREAT GREAT song.

Playing Pokemon with Smiley. I'm confused. Very confused (the margaritas probably aren't helping)

My spur of the moment plan to take the family on a county bus ride, just because they are free on NY Eve, has been vetoed by Lisa. In part because it's 12 degrees outside, and in part because it's a dumb idea.

Smiley and I are hitting the road while LuLu dyes Lisa's hair

Note the strawberries Lisa had the kids dip in chocolate as an activity/treat for NY Eve

Just watched 1D on New York Rockin Eve! Plus, saw Donnie Wahlberg!

Done!

Happy Birthday Joe!

Happy Birthday Joey McIntyre!

A Walmart Run

I took Smiley to Wal-Mart yesterday to spend the gift cards he got for Christmas. We spent about twenty seconds in the toy aisle before moving on to the art and crafts area.

I was pleased to see him pick out a grow your own trilobite kit we considered buying for Christmas, but in the end my boy spent his $20 on Pokemon cards.

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Books Read and Movies Watched in 2014

With law school and all I fell off the pace of my recreational reading, finishing 2014 with only 42 books. I did better on my movie total, watching 131. Here's my neurotic list of both:

Date	Title	Author
	Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography	Mike Tyson
	Dark of the Moon	John Sandford
	Doctor Sleep	Stephen King
	The Pagan Lord	Bernard Cornwell
12-Mar	One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories	B.J. Novak
12-Mar	Not Taco Bell Material	Adam Carolla
19-Mar	Shovel Ready	Adam Sternbergh
29-Mar	The Red Box	Rex Stout
4-Apr	Dick Francis's  Refusal	Felix Francis
12-Apr	The Troop	Nick Cutter
16-Apr	The Necromancer's House	Christopher Buehlman
18-Apr	The Setup Man	T.T. Monday
30-Apr	Let the Old Dreams Die	John Ajvide Lindqvist
9-May	Down the Lights	Edited by Richard Chizmar
11-May	The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August	Claire North
23-Jun	Work for Hire	Joe Haldeman
7/2/2014	Third Rail	Rory Flynn
7/12/2014	The Smoke at Dawn	Jeff Shaara
7/16/2014	Dark City	F Paul Wilson
20-Jul	Rooselvelt's Beast	Louis Bayard
13-Aug	The Devil and Sonny Liston	Nick Tosches
13-Aug	Crime Beat	Michael Connelly
14-Aug	Never Go Back	Lee Child
15-Aug	From the Dead	Mark Billingham
16-Aug	Sea Lord	Bernard Cornwell
23-Aug	The Bones Beneath	Mark Billingham
27-Aug	Eisenhower the President Nobody Knew	Arthur Larson
25-Sep	Grant	Jean Edward Smith
9-Oct	Tomorrow and Tomorrow	Thomas Sweterlitsch
12-Oct	Personal	Lee Child
20-Oct	The Bone Clocks	David Mitchell
25-Oct	The Battle of Midway	Craig L. Symonds
29-Oct	On Rhetoric	Aristotle
20-Nov	On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockerfeller	Richard Norton Smith
21-Nov	Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat At Camp David	Lawrence Wright
21-Nov	Consumed	David Cronenberg
27-Nov	A Time to Heal	Gerald R. Ford
9-Dec	Prosser, Wade, and Schwart's Torts, 12th edition	Swartz, Kelly, Parlett
12-Dec	Ike's Bluff	Evan Thomas
19-Dec	Six Crises	Richard M. Nixon
24-Dec	The Return of George Washington 1783-1789	Edward J. Larson
31-Dec	Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis	David A Nichols

Movies Watched

1-Jan	American Hustle
	Elysium
	The Underneath
	Hangover
	Hot Tub Time Machine
	The Good Son: Boom Boom Mancini
6-Jan	Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
	About Time
7-Jan	Saving Mr. Banks
8-Jan	AKA Cassius Clay
12-Jan	Escape Plan
13-Jan	Dallas Buyers Club
17-Jan	The Last Airbender
18-Jan	Raze
19-Jan	You're Next
	Jug Face
20-Jan	The Jefferey Dahmer Experience
21-Jan	Klitschko
	TWA Flight 800
27-Jan	Ender's Game
28-Jan	The Wolf of Wall Street
	Grudge Match
3-Feb	Killing Them Softly
	You're Next (second viewing)
	The Kennedy Detail
	Easton's Article aka Black Web
	The Amityville Horror (Reynold's version)
	Old School
	Dirty Dancing
	The Exorcist
	American Psycho
	The Snake Pit
	The Awful Truth
4-Mar	The Last Voyage
25-Mar	Contracted
	Alyce Kills
31-Mar	Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
4-Apr	True Detective
6-Apr	The Returned
6-Apr	Captain America: The Winter Soldier
7-Apr	Cottage Country
13-Apr	Insidious: Chapter 2
14-Apr	Haunter
22-Apr	Devil's Due
22-Apr	Plus One
28-Apr	Absentia
29-Apr	Absence
29-Apr	The Haunting of Julia
29-Apr	Oculus
12-May	Don't Stop Believing (Journey documentary)
13-May	The Guilt Trip
April?	Starving in Suburbia
27-May	Godzilla
May	The Ghost from the Machine
3-Jun	Neighbors
10-Jun	Non-Stop
10-Jun	Edge of Tommorrow
15-Jun	Adult World
17-Jun	22 Jump Street
17-Jun	A Million Ways to Die in the West
18-Jun	Afflicted
23-Jun	Wayne's World
23-Jun	A Picnic at Hanging Rock
23-Jun	Girl Most Likely
1-Jul	Her
2-Jul	The Comeback
5-Jul	Iron Man 2
5-Jul	Iron Man 3
7-Jul	Noah
8-Jul	All Is Lost
8-Jul	13 Sins
8-Jul	How I Live Now
9-Jul	The Surrogate
14-Jul	The Conspiracy
15-Jul	Entity
15-Jul	The Snowtown Murders
15-Jul	Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery
15-Jul	Banshee Chapter
20-Jul	Under the Skin
27-Jul	Divergent
27-Jul	Stolen from the Womb
28-Jul	All Cheerleaders Die
	Sharknado 2: The Second One
	(title missing)
5-Aug	Guardians of the Galaxy
11-Aug	The Quiet Ones
25-Aug	Doctor Who: Series 8 Premiere
1-Sep	After Tiller
2-Sep	Let's Be Cops
7-Sep	The Brittany Murphy Story
9-Sep	The Enemy
	Time Travellers
10-Sep	Catfish
23-Sep	7500
	The Human Race
25-Sep	Crazy Love
	Behaving Badly
5-Oct	Lucy
6-Oct	Horns
	A Good Marriage
21-Oct	Annabelle
24-Oct	The Possession of Michael King
	Don't Blink
25-Oct	Coherence
	Tammy
26-Oct	Midway
28-Oct	Enough Said
5-Nov	Pirates of the Caribbean I
6-Nov	Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, Not so Very Good Day
11-Nov	Jessabelle
16-Nov	Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B
17-Nov	Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer
18-Nov	déjà vu
25-Nov	St Vincent
26-Nov	Predestination
28-Nov	So Undercover
29-Nov	Transcendence
29-Nov	The Fantastic Four
1-Dec	After Earth
2-Dec	Gravity
3-Dec	Gangster Squad
9-Dec	Dumb and Dumber To
15-Dec	As Above, So Below
16-Dec	The Babadook
16-Dec	The Purge: Anarchy
26-Dec	The Sacrament
29-Dec	The Penguins of Madagascar
	The Taking of Deborah Logan
	You've Got Mail
30-Dec	The Skeleton Twins
	The Interview