The Year in Review - Facebook updates

You're wondering: who has the time to go and cut and paste all of these one by one? I guess I do. I have this tendency to want to review each year as it draws to a close. Usually I read my journals from the year, and talk to Liz about the year. This year, Liz suggested that I take a look back at all of my status updates on Facebook. So, I actually went through the laborious process pulling out each of these updates from the year. There are about 120 one of them! 2008 was a year to remember. The great and terrible year. I'll have more to say, and some photos to post. But first...my year of Facebook status updates:

Jan 2: Leonard is looking at short-term flats in Le Marais. 11:50pm

Jan 5: Leonard is working. 11:53am

Jan 6: Leonard is taking it easy with the wife on the Westside (not Upper) and psyching myself up for CES. 12:29pm

Jan 6: Leonard is sitting at LAX Terminal 1 waiting for flight to Vegas. 8:11pm

Jan 7: Leonard is in the taxi line at the Venetian. 9:49pm

Jan 8: Leonard is hoping to kick this cough soon. 12:38pm

Jan 8: Leonard is so glad that doctor friends can call in prescription drugs for him. 5:23pm

Jan 10: Leonard is in rainy NorCal and wondering why the weather has sucked since moving to the West Coast. 10:22am

Jan 10: Leonard is hoping Michael Nash doesn't hurt anyone at SFO if our flight is delayed another hour. 3:34pm

Jan 10: Leonard is relieved to be back. 10:53pm

Jan 21: Leonard is having brunch with the wife at Toast on 3rd street. 1:38pm

Jan 21: Leonard is planning the details of their last vacation...ever. 9:47pm

Jan 24: Leonard is pissed that United cancelled not one but two flights on him. 8:53am

Jan 24: Leonard is onboard at LAX headed to Nice via Frankfurt and CDG. 4:56pm

Jan 25: Leonard is stuck for a couple of hours in Frankfurt, with only a doppio and an FT for company. 5:20am

Jan 25: Leonard is wearing the same thing today b/c Air France/United lost his luggage - a perfect way to cap off a perfect travel day! 11:50pm

Jan 26: Leonard is buying boxers in Cannes because the airline hasn't delivered the lost luggage. 9:07am

Jan 27: Leonard is having lunch outdoors on the Mediterranean sea. 4:04am

Jan 28: Leonard is not feeling great after staying up all night. 10:26pm

Feb 1: Leonard is making reservations at Kong and Laduree in broken French. haha... 2:51am

Feb 1: Leonard is getting crushed by the euro. 2:19pm

Feb 2: Leonard is standing in line in St Germaine for some macroons. 6:44am

Feb 6: Leonard is finally at CDG, after 90 minutes of public transport - involuntarily standing in solidarity with Parisian taxi drivers on strike. 12:54am

Feb 6: Leonard is back Stateside. 1:20pm

Feb 7: Leonard is using his 646 number cuz he lost his 917 phone - sorry for those who called. 3:57pm

Feb 9: Leonard is back in the warm weather. 9:16pm

Feb 12: Leonard is at LAX again, and wondering if ordering this Sausage McMuffin is a bad idea. 6:46am

Feb 12: Leonard is anxious to get off the plane and away from the talkative stranger on 9A. 4:11pm

Feb 13: Leonard is eating In-n-Out in the car, on the 405 North, and doing a conference call. Not a great idea. 11:22am

Feb 16: Leonard is reading the paper by the pool and working on the master to-do list. 10:44am

Feb 21: Leonard is sitting in sister in law's living room with a bunch of folks, timing contractions, and wondering if his nephew will be born on Uncle Leonard's birthday! 11:16pm

Feb 25: Leonard is trying to build a multivariable decision model for selecting the right car - should have paid attention in Monte Carlo simulation class. 12:41am

Feb 25: Leonard was asked earlier in the day: "Are you the new intern?" Nice. Maybe I'll wear glasses and a tie tomorrow.

Feb 26: Leonard is doing the maternity tour at Cedars Sinai - short of breath and light-headed all of a sudden! 5:18pm

Mar 3: Leonard is rescheduling the entire week. 10:49am

Mar 3: Leonard is at Cedars again. 6:27pm

Mar 3: Leonard is at Cedars again, about to go meet the new nephew for the first time - Noah F. Lee, 7 pounds exactly. 6:29pm

Mar 6:

Leonard is wondering why the directed him to the long security line upstairs at Terminal 1 LAX instead of letting him go through the empty line downstairs. 6:17am

Leonard is taking a train down the peninsula looking for his rental car. 4:12pm

Leonard is polishing up a bottle of Ridge Valley with old friends Andrew and Charles, and waxing nostalgic about the city. 11:32pm

Mar 9: Leonard is at Target, amazed that there are so many little things he didn't realize he needed until seeing them. 4:05pm

Mar 10: Leonard is moving into the new crib on Olympic and Bentley. 2:17pm

Mar 11: Leonard is cleared but running out of those precious 500 mile credits and comps. 8:36am

Mar 18: Leonard is already logged on to CBS March Madness on-demand and watching Tyus Edney vs. Missouri 1995 over and over... 7:59pm

Mar 29: Leonard wonders if San Antonio could be considered a critical business trip. 9:58pm

Apr 11: Leonard is having a "GSD" day - getting shtuff done. 12:40pm

Apr 12: Leonard is labeling, filing, and shredding, and getting a lot of satisfaction out of it. 7:01pm

Apr 13: Leonard thinks Britax should hire a couple of product designers to re-write the user manual, b/c I have no idea how to use this thing. 10:55am

Apr 16: Leonard is making a list but feeling paralyzed. 12:28pm

Apr 28: Leonard is picking up some shaved ice at volcano tea on sawtelle. 10:30pm

May 3: Leonard is waiting in room 5 at Cedars, with a view of the Hills. 7:54am

May 4: Leonard is sleepless at Cedars, chillin' in wonderment with Liz and Angelina "Lina" Ruth Chen, born 5/3 at 11:03am (PST) - 7lbs. and 21 in. 12:58pm

May 12: Leonard is changing, burping, changing, burping, etc. 7:29pm

May 12: Leonard watching Anderson Cooper and wondering why there is so much suffering in the world.via Twitter - 10:40pm

May 22: Leonard is doubtful that summer hours means anything to his dept. 1:23pm

May 23: Leonard is on a day trip to Berkeley for sister's grad...sitting on southwest now, the greyhound in the sky. 6:41am

May 23: Leonard is at a commencement cocktail thing at berkeley, shocked at how fast the kid sister grew up. 11:54am

May 27:

Leonard is wondering if the pediatrician would ok a night cap to take the edge off for the baby. 12:52am

Leonard is thanking the barista for the free fourth shot of the quadruple soy latte and hopes this helps him get through the morning. 7:43am

May 29: Leonard is eating a lu(3) dan(4) and thinking of Shilin night market in Taipei. 12:00am

Jun 4: Leonard is watching a documentary of the "Showtime" era Lakers - the refrigerator door is closed! 10:13pm

Jun 5: Leonard feels like it was just yesterday when he was watching Magic & Co. at the Fabulous Forum in Inglewood. 2:37pm

Jun 6: Leonard $138 a barrel... shoot me! 12:50pm

Jun 9: Leonard is finalizing his term life insurance application - both comforting and quite disturbing. 4:52pm

Jun 11: Leonard is exhausted and so not in the mood to talk to the extremely talkative driver. 10:17pm

Jun 17: Leonard is thinking about shutting down the TV - it's just too painful. 8:03pm

Jun 28: Leonard is picking up world-class dumplings at Din Tai Fung in Arcadia. 6:47pm - Comment

Jun 29: Leonard is happy for Espana. 1:41pm

Jul 7: Leonard was just asked if he was an intern again. Thinking of wearing a suit to the office (where everyone wears jeans) from now on... 12:16pm

Jul 8: Leonard is shocked that somebody actually bothered to call from Cannes about the mobile phone he lost six months ago; must have dialed everyone on my presets. 9:52am

Jul 10: Leonard is is sitting across from Ken Watanabe abd thinks the (second to the) last samurai looks a lot bigger onscreen. thinking abt challenging him to a sword fight. 1:17pm

Jul 17:

Leonard is bleary-eyed abd trying to convince himself and his wife that some day they will miss the moments. thanks elliott, for the advice... 4:41am

Leonard is bleary eyed but trying to telling himself and his wife that someday they will look back fondly at these moments. thanks, elliott, for the perspective! 4:44am

Leonard is stuck in line at sbux behind the guy who ordered 8 diff custom beverages - what bet did he lose? 8:27am

Jul 25: Leonard is working. 1:53am

Jul 26: Leonard finally enjoying some downtime after putting the kid down - surfing the net and watching TV...now considered paradise...via Twitter - 1:46am

Jul 28:

Leonard is disturbed by the fact that 30 days of gmail have been wiped out of his inbox...this couldn't just be a case of pocket-typing could it? 12:36am

Leonard is thankful and relieved that bro/sis-in-law are here taking care of baby while we take care of stuff, and entertained by their sheer panic. 8:19pm

Jul 29: Leonard is getting blasted with emails, IM's and facebook messages asking about the earthquake. 1:02pm

Aug 3: Leonard wishes he pushed back more on his stylist and feels like he should be wearing rayon and singing duran duran with his new '80's-style do. 11:55am

Aug 4: Leonard is wondering how long must we sing this song. 9:37pm –

Aug 5: Leonard (to the guy blackberry-ing in the bathroom stall): you gotta draw the line somewhere! 4:15pm

Aug 8: Leonard is closing out a very productive week - 1 parking ticket, 1 speeding ticket, 1 extra VOD charge b/c they couldn't watch the movie within 24 hrs...what a week. 5:17pm

Aug 9: Leonard is at Half and Half tea house in San Gabriel, which has the most authentic Taiwanese boba in LA. 5:41pm

Aug 10: Leonard finally watched the Opening Ceremony - 3 days later - on DVR...and wow... 1:38pm

Aug 22: Leonard is wondering why the NYtimes got the news on the selection before he got his promised text message. 11:40pm

Sep 7: Leonard is looking forward to this full capacity redeye. 10:15pm

Sep 11: Leonard is sleep-training. 11:27pm

Sep 13: Leonard almost caved on night #2 of sleep training...almost...goodness. 12:05am

Sep 26: Leonard is wondering if the average Taiwanese is also taller than the average North Korean, and by how many inches? 7:53pm

Sep 28: Leonard is roaming around the UES in a tux...fancy Chinese delivery guy or friend of bride and groom? 9:53am

Sep 30: Leonard is glad to be back at home with the girls. 11:33pm

Oct 5: Leonard is trying to calculate the absolute maximum amount of Motrin he can have in 24 hours, and how best to disburse it, without OD-ing. 10:02pm

Oct 15: Leonard is pissed that the greedy insurance co. called my mobile to ask how much longer I'll be hospitalized...at least wait til after the IV and oxygen tubes are... 9:20am

Oct 16: Leonard is thankful for a nice break from the drudgery of the hospital - a couple of hearty laughs while watching the al smith charity dinner. 6:26pm

Oct 17: Leonard is thinking 17 straight days of fever probably ain't good for the brain. 10:33am

Oct 18: Leonard is must be picking up the med lingo - a doctor just asked me if I was a doctor. or I've been here way too long... 10:44am

Oct 19: Leonard is becoming a fixture here, just had my daily half hour conversation with the hospital menu supervisor about her graduating son's career path - MD, MBA, or... 11:40am

Oct 21: Leonard is dying to get the hell home...anyone in WeHo or Bev Hills got a helicopter for a quick getaway? I'll rip the IV's out like 007... 7:47pm

Oct 29:

Leonard is happy for their old home of 2 years - good ole' philly, which according to will smith, is jiggy. 7:35pm

Leonard is happy for his old stomping grounds of 2 years - good ole' Philly, which according to Will Smith, is jiggy like LA. 7:36pm

Oct 30: Leonard is wondering if it's a bad omen when my insurance company - United Healthcare - calls me to talk about getting a living will done? Yikes. 10:19am

Oct 31: Leonard is happy to have Mike and Oli over tonight. 11:09pm

Nov 4: Leonard - wow, my six month old daughter is going to grow up thinking she can do anything... 11:15pm

Nov 7: Leonard is sacrificing baby's sleep schedule for korean bbq. hopefully won't pay for it later... 8:21pm

Nov 10: Leonard California drivers (San Mateo county jurisdiction) - any suggestions for the FASTEST possible online traffic school course? 9:50pm

Nov 21: Leonard is looking forward to dinner with the wife, while the sis-in-law babysits! only the third quiet meal just the two of us in the last 6 months! thanks Em! 12:52pm

Dec 1:

Leonard is with my peers at the LA Superior Court for jury duty. 8:04am

Leonard is filling the last seat in the box. 2:59pm

Dec 5: Leonard is bruised, sore, and scratched up after slipping down some stairs while holding lina - thankfully baby is ok; and what's up with my luck this year. 1:18am

Dec 7: Leonard is finally caving on his policy of not requesting to add friends on fb, and is finally requesting to add Liz (the wife) as a friend (she has the same policy). 11:36pm

Dec 8: Leonard is at Ralph's supermarket, missing Fairway's on the UWS. 8:35pm

Dec 21: Leonard is at nieces/nephew's holiday piano recital...they are great, but brings back tortuous childhood memories... 6:47pm

Dec 22: Leonard accidently hit the "take a break" link on Gmail and is locked out. Anybody know how to unlock this function? 4:20pm

Dec 23: Leonard is waiting to get in for some korean bbq at Tahoe Galbi. 7:50pm

Dec 24: Leonard can't believe it's been one year exactly since we left NYC. Where did the year go? 10:36am