{"id":236,"date":"2018-01-03T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2018\/01\/03\/my-highlights-of-2017\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:51:00","slug":"my-highlights-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2018\/01\/03\/my-highlights-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"My Highlights of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know, it&#8217;s already 2018, so based on lists other people do, I should have done this, oh, I dunno&#8230; November?<\/p>\n<p>My Highlights of 2017, roughly in the order they happened (it&#8217;s not everything good that happened i 2017, but this was the absolute best stuff):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/albums\/72157677333517631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The January snow<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/albums\/72157675709180154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The women&#8217;s march<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The hysterically funny Internet response to <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/RyTGeJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the &#8220;Bowling Green Massacre<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Not only hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/NS52Hj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robbie Fulks but also MEETING HIM<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/RMDRDs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking to Danny Barnes<\/a> (but, unfortunately, the sound at McMenamins Lodge is SO awful, we never actually HEARD him).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Uuy2wq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oyster tasting at Sake One<\/a> with Michelle and Chaline.<\/li>\n<li>Seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/X6BCsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nika, a colleague from Iran<\/a>, after more than 10 years apart (<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2QdBZo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we worked together<\/a> in Kabul, Afghanistan).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/HPKM9k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Working for Knowbility<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/RogFZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Tudyk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Yup32y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Hamill<\/a> liking my tweets.<\/li>\n<li>Finding a <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/TZMC35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gravel road we can take from Highway 26<\/a> almost the entire way to the coast.<\/li>\n<li>Getting <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/YQ8ZQR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blocked by David Crosby on Twitter<\/a> (he&#8217;s an ASSHOLE).<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/jayneblawg.blogspot.com\/2017\/08\/viewing-solar-eclipse-totality-in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eclipse viewing with the Lee Family<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Wu6JsP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Motorcycle trip in Washington State<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Finding <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Yf9HKb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slane blended whiskey<\/a> for Stefan&#8217;s birthday.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Wu76KZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Making it through the UN application and screening process<\/a> to be added to yet another roster.<\/li>\n<li>Getting <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/YhSpyU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profiled by Open University<\/a> as a graduate success story.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/21axnbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visiting Austin<\/a> for the first time in too long.<\/li>\n<li>Going to an elementary school girls basketball game with my nieces in Henderson, and later in the week, their amazed, entranced reaction to my gifts for them: fans from Spain.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/ZPLusF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nonsense with Carol Weimer<\/a> at the Henderson Dairy Queen &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/ZjXbFj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally going to Metzger&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>My last visit with <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Dfijnq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my maternal grandmother<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>New Star Wars movie (<a href=\"http:\/\/jayneblawg.blogspot.com\/2017\/12\/star-wars-last-jedi-my-thoughts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even though I didn&#8217;t love it<\/a>, it was STAR WARS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/21LeKA7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stefan&#8217;s reaction to my Christmas present<\/a> for him (the Sherlock hat).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/albums\/72157690948256754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camping at Silver Falls State Park<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>That damn <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/21KaNaR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D globe puzzle<\/a> we started on NYE.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/D6gGQt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lucinda<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/YPBKfi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gray Max<\/a>, too many times to count.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DrunkAusten\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drunk Austen<\/a>, too many times to count.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The Resistance, too many times to count.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know, it&#8217;s already 2018, so based on lists other people do, I should have done this, oh, I dunno&#8230; November? My Highlights of 2017, roughly in the order they happened (it&#8217;s not everything good that happened i 2017, but this was the absolute best stuff): The January snow. The women&#8217;s march. The hysterically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}