Happy Aloha Friday!
Another year is in the record books. So I thought I would create a new tradition, cause I had so much fun with last year’s final post, and just use the same post. I was gonna delay delivery until tomorrow but then I thought, most of y’all won’t see this until next year anyway. I did notice big miss on my part, sharing a Phish New Year’s Tradition, so I added that…and just like that giant ball in times square, what goes up, must come down…right!?
The last Friday of the year is upon us. Whether you leaned in, dove deep, fleshed out, distilled down, bubbled up, leveled up, knew enough to be dangerous, got a lay of the land, put it on the back burner, baked off, ballparked it, band aided it, had a Banner year, a barn burner, took a bio break, boiled the frog, tried to boil the ocean, were boots on the ground, cannibalized, harmonized, came to jesus, wore the cone of silence, were in the cone of silence, in the trust tree, TMI’d, cross-pollinated, cyberslacked, determined the delta, bridged the gap, fought the tape, dovetailed, downsized, drilled down, drank from the fire hose, drove beyond the headlights, got your ducks in a row, were a duck shuffler, operationalized, came out of the woodwork, out of the box, outside the box, out of pocket, met the table stakes, were tactical, hit the tailwinds, were the tailwinds, took the knock, took a bath, tee’d up, travel dazzled, got the quick win, put meat on the bone, picked the bone dry, moved the needle, threaded the needle, muppet shuffled, moved the goal posts, were mission critical, were all hands on deck, paddled on both sides, found the pain point, worked backwards, set a workback date, parking lot’d it, tabled it, paid the piper, towed the party line, found the path forward, weathered the perfect storm, phoned it in, piggybacked, got pinged, did the pinging, ZOOMd, SLACKd, CHIMEd, pinned the rose, plugged the dyke, proceduralized, course corrected, pulse checked, punched the tree, put to bed, put the feelers out, put socks on an ocotopus, walked together, wallpapered fog, wallpapered a meeting, washed its face, waxed poetic, weighed the pig, determined where the rubber met the road, got within a nine iron, simply destroyed it, or just plain crushed life or work!
It’s now time to circle back, take a long hard look, take stock, analyze, do a post mortem, debrief, level-set, intellectualize, criticize, critically examine (and any other business jargon term you can insert into this diatribe) 2023!
It has been a blast sharing these with you each week this year (and last)! My final thoughts on the year (in relation to music): When one window shuts it opens a bigger door, right? Should the end of the year be closing chapter, the end of a book, the beginning of the end, the end of the beginning? Should we lament? Celebrate? Both, neither? Is it just a superfluous and contrived moment to be ignored. I will leave you with a series of tracks that battle with this philosophical conundrum. But first, the only way to ring in the New Year: PHISH : Auld Lang Syne : {1080p HD} : Madison Square Garden : New York City, New York : 12/31/2011
Enjoy:
Mad World – REM (originally by Tears for Fears)
Rise – Eddie Vedder (Into the Wild)
Simple Minds – “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”
You Can't Always Get What You Want – Rolling Stones Paul Simon - The Only Living Boy In New York
