Happy New Year

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I know I'm a day early but I couldn't wait to do this New Year's journal. Plus it's the 31's somewhere at this time. Ah, Auckland New Zealand has it now.  I love this clock ap on my phone that shows the world and the shadow of night and day.  Ok so you guys can do this meme too that I wrote up a few years ago. The questions are here. Please give me credit if you use it and link to the original post here End of the Year MemeUpdated Version in Description.

I have already filled in mine on LJ so if you're on there please comment. HERE.

It's long and didn't want to stretch the journal page here.

OH darn looks like it's time to fill out the end of the year art in review too. I just saw that in the description so I guess I will be doing some art this year. I think I'll post it to this account then.  I know I won't finish anything new by tomorrow so may as well start on that too.



Ok now that the New Years stuff is out of the way I want to share a video I found on youtube that I really liked.  It's about smart people have few friends.  Well really the reason is that most of them are introverts and introverts tend to be smarter than extroverts.  But the guy makes some valid points.  I am a very smart person having done very well in school and university so I fit this.  I liked the fact he mentioned that we are not afraid to judge people.  We are very selective of who our friends will be. We see the faults in others and once that has been identified we want nothing to do with them.  I wish he had mentioned that these types of people are naturally more confident so we just don't need lots of people around us. We don't need people to feel better about ourselves. Our strength comes from within.  In real life we can count our friends on one hand.  And I laughed at the part about everyone else wants friends for dumb things like emotional stability.  The weaklings hehe.  We want people that can give us mental stimulation and have deep meaningful conversations that are our equals. If people do not measure up to our standards then they can't come into our circle.  So here is the video.

Intelligent people have fewer friends. Here's why

Now Chris and I are an INTP/INTJ couple.  So we're one of the coldest pairs out there.  But INTJ's are colder than INTP's and I want to share a funny conversation we had in our room the other night.  I didn't even think about what I replied to him just said it in my normal truthful way and it turned out rather funny but would have "hurt" anyone else I guess. So I was in bed watching stuff. We watch netflix before going to bed.  He came in after doing some stuff in the kitchen and said,
"I'm starting the diet.  I hope it won't be too hard this time."  Without even looking at him and still watching the screen I go,
"It will be hard. It gets harder every time you restart it."  Silence.  I noticed the silence and finally looked at him and he had a sad puppy face.  So I added.  "Well I hope it won't be hard for you. But it probably will be."  Another pause then he goes,
"Thanks Batman."  We both busted out laughing and my reply was, "Can I tell my friends about this conversation."
"Yes go ahead."
"Because this is a great analysis between two NT's."

That's how it really went. And I loved that he called me Batman. It's not an insult. Actually Batman describes me very well if you want a fictional example of what I am like.  I've always cited Mr. Burns as being like me but well I'm not old and rich.  I think Batman is a better example as he says the things I would and he's an easy example for people to understand what I mean. Well so long as they don't think of the friendly 60's Batman.  Hehe no, animated series Batman.  The Dark Knight not the Caped Crusader.

Ok so I've got some new comic pages that will soon be in the works. FBTF mostly. As always I really could use a digital inker. If anyone can help me that's at my level and can follow directions very well please comment and let me know. I could use the help to make things go faster.

I have finished mailing out all the Christmas cards finally.  I still have way too many though.  If anyone didn't get one that's a good friend of mine you can still note me your snail mail address.  I have three international stamps left and more US stamps.  So I'm glad I finished that before the new year.

Ok so I leave you with another Crypt Keeper song.