The year in review

Alexis: "Take the first sentence from the first entry of every month in 2004, then post them in order." Okay:

January: "Heavy rain on New Year's Day, for the first time in my 24-year experience."

February: "Janet Jackson got a little too much national exposure Sunday."

March: "A poll taken the third week of Feburary has Bush and Kerry tied in Florida."

April: "Really strange and interesting episode of "The West Wing" last night -- it started off thanking fictitious 'underwriters,' as if we were watching PBS and not NBC."

May: "I spent the day at a one-day Zen retreat."

June: "A U.S. District Court judge today declared the ban on "partial-birth abortions" unconstitutional, with an appeal to the liberal 9th Circuit guaranteed."

July: "Performer Bill Cosby, an inveterate champion of education, has been ranting lately about the cultural and ethical condition of many Black Americans, and today he went off again, saying, 'For me there is a time ... when we have to turn the mirror around,' he said."

August: "Summer drizzle arrived last week, has lasted five straight days."

September: "Here's a story from the small-town newspaper of Barstow, Calif., about a local Army unit that's preparing to ship out to Iraq."

October: "I spent nearly all day down at my new job as a tech writer."

November: "Electoral-vote.com has Kerry leading 298-231 in the electoral vote this morning, based on polls taken over the weekend. According to these polls, Kerry takes all of the big 3 swing states and the entire upper midwest (except, of course, for solid-red Indiana)."

December: "A few good things today: The Supreme Court of South Africa legalized marriage between same-sex people."

Okay, that wasn't as much fun as it could have been.