2004 was a pretty great year — my first entire year living in New York City. Here’s some of the highlights:

• After dating for a few months, Jeff and I decided we were officially boyfriends.
• Shortly thereafter, I met Jeff’s parents for the first time, and have since attended a number of family events.
• My mom visited NYC and met Jeff. Even more improbably, Jeff went with me to my brother’s wedding. I still can’t really believe I’m finally out to my entire family.
• I joined the Gay Gotham Chorus (which Jeff was already a member of) and have enjoyed making music.
• Jeff and I went on vacation to Washington DC — the first adult vacation I’ve ever taken.
• I saw a ton of great theatre (according to my spreadsheet: 26 musicals, 7 plays, and 3 cabarets). Highlights included both the original and later Broadway staging of Caroline or Change, Dog Sees God, and a recent concert production of Pippin. And, I won the Tony pool!
• Every other Monday, I’ve gone to the Big Quiz Thing with Jeff, Mike, Dan, and a few others. We’ve never won 1st place (and have slipped from the top five after our music-expert Greg moved away); but in a crazy anonymous place like NYC, it’s nice to have a place where I’m a regular.
• Four months ago, I turned 30. And just like everyone told me, my thirties are rockin’.

If you check out Jeff’s year-end wrapup, you’ll notice our lists are pretty similar. So here’s to another happy year of Jeff and I together.

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Max points to a great (British-centric) list of Top 100 Toys from around the same time period he and I were both kids.

Several of my favorites make an appearance (Weebles, Merlin, Shrinky Dinks); but while Magic Rocks is on the list, my favorite — Magic Sand in the genie bottle — is not.

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"Joins your papers by punching a small, neat hole in your documents and folding the remaining flaps together for a secure binding." Great! I've always been freaked out by the idea of staples and paperclips not being recycled.

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Amazingly detailed structures built from stacked cards.

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"It seems that every new web application now sports a 'beta' tagline. Furthermore, it seems to stay that way for an indeterminable amount of time. This begs the question whether the 'beta' term has lost its definition."

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standards-based forum software from the WordPress gang.

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Merlin Mann sums up his year implementing ideas from the productivity book "Getting Things Done." Maybe this will be the year I get past chapter 1 of said book.

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A Roundup Of The Recent Events Surrounding Election 2004's Ohio Recount and Voting Machine Fraud Situation.

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