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December 31, 2004:

GOODBYE 2004/HELLO 2005!

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Well, dear readers, here we are, on the final day of the year known as 2004. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, this is the final day of the year known as 2004. Tomorrow, for example, will be the first day of the year known as 2005, and I, for one, am very excited at that prospect. But let’s send off 2004 with a wonderful Rockin’ New Year’s Eve bash here at haineshisway.com. Last year we had a brilliantly brilliant send-off, and this year promises to be even better. We may have surprise guests dropping in, and we shall have Diet Coke, and various and sundried foodstuffs, and we will be dancing and the joint will be filled with merriment and mirth and laughter and legs. Yesterday, I bought a pair of Converse All Stars – you know, those classic black-and-white sneakers, and I’m very pleased they’ve come back in fashion. Yesterday, I also picked up my brand spanking new digital camera, the Canon Sureshot 300. The booklet is the size of War and Peace and just as dense. Or is it me that’s just as dense? In any case, it’s all dense, and it gives me a headache even opening up the booklet. I’ve taken a few photos already, and it’s a great camera – it also takes small video clips, but I haven’t tried that yet. I’m just getting used to it, but won’t start using it regularly until the new Powerbook is up and working. Speaking of the new Powerbook, if all goes according to Hoyle, it should be here today, along with the various side dishes I ordered. The only thing that won’t be here is the free printer, which comes in about a week. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?

2004 was certainly an interesting year, at least for me. There were the usual trials and tribulations, and making the decision to sell the home environment was a difficult one, but one I’m ultimately glad I made. But to have Kritzer Time come out, and to write Writer’s Block early in the year and then have that come out, was a real treat, and thrilling for me. It wasn’t so thrilling to learn of this long dormant Kander and Ebb musical, Curtains, which suddenly, seemingly on the heels of our press release, is on the fast track, with my pal Rupert Holmes doing the book. I just think it’s funny. Rupert and I have talked about it – he’s not going to read the book because he doesn’t want to be hampered by it – he wants his mind to go where it goes. Hopefully it will go in different places. But the irony, of course, is the final page of Writer’s Block, in which Mr. Holmes is invoked. He alluded that there may be a production happening here in Los Angeles, California, USA, at some point in 2005. But, I’m just grateful that the book is out, people are enjoying it, and, most importantly, it’s actually selling. Marcy the Marketing Lady will be back on the case on Monday – trying to book more signings for me in February. I also had a grand time doing the script for the new version of Horror of Party Beach, and I’m hoping the New Year will put the movie into production. And, of course, the great gift that was What If – and we hope there will be more life for that show in the coming year known as 2005.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, because I’ve got more stuff to talk about on this, the final day of the year known as 2004.

My goals for the New Year are many – most importantly, I’m hoping to get a good start on what I hope will be my next novel. I have made the decision to put aside the idea I was working on, and write another mystery. I did have fun doing Writer’s Block, and I know it would be fun to follow it up with something else. However, if I can’t make it equally as interesting, then I may go back to the other idea. I have a pretty good notion for a story, though, and it’s a setting that hasn’t really been done before or, if it has, not very much. I have the broad strokes of an idea and I’ve made notes, and I’m just going to dive right in as soon as the Powerbook is up and working on Tuesday. I will also continue work on the non-fiction book, but that will take a back seat to the mystery.

The other thing that I am extremely thankful for is this here site. Yes, occasionally we have our snippy moments, but for the most part this is such a warm and wonderful place – they call these boards “communities” but most of them are just bitch-fests and I can’t really get too interested in them or take them seriously. This seems much more a “community” and we have the smartest and most interesting folks on all the Internet – both our regulars and our lurkers. Never in my wildest imaginings would I have thought that we’d last this long, be going this strong, or that I would write three years’ worth of daily notes, never missing a day. Never in my wildest imaginings would I have thought that we’d get millions of hits a year. Given all that, I do feel that soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must finish organizing computer stuff, I must play with my new fancy-shmancy digital camera, I must pick up mail (and hopefully my new Powerbook) and I must attend the happeningest partay on all the Internet right here at haineshisway.com. I’m telling you, this is the place to be – safe, fun, and with our special Rockin’ New Year’s Eve countdown at midnight Pacific Standard Time. You won’t want to miss one second of the grooviest, ginchiest, bossest, bitchinest bash on all the Internet. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player, and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – car CD, Love, Strings, and Jobim, a fantastic Warner Bros. album, with charts by Deodato. Home CD, Howl’s Moving Castle, still. DVD, currently Merchant/Ivory’s Roseland, which I’m hating every minute of. If I can’t make it through, then I’ll switch back to the all-German (no subs) Edgar Wallace movie I was in the midst of. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, as we say farewell to 2004 and welcome in 2005 with loving, open arms.

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