Craig's Blog of Destiny

Several years ago my father started a tradition of having the family make predictions on New Years Day.  Last year we continued that tradition in our home.  Here are the predictions – and my current commentary – from last year:

J’Neil:

 I will have success at Science Fair

She did indeed have success, though it was hard to get her planets, on her scale the size of marbles,  placed appropriately – some of them would have been down somewhere by the mall, and some even further!

Sam will have a different hand held gaming system

Indeed, I believe Sam did get his new DS system last year.  Did you know DS stands for double screens?  They’re playing on two screens now!  Even more amazing, they play each other, on seperate devices, wirelessly!!!!  In my day we had rubber balls… and we liked it!!!!

The Dakota’s will merge together and make on big Dakota

Hmmm… political, geographical predictions don’t seem to be your strong point, J’Neil.

Sam:

I will spend > $75.00 on golf this year.

Well, if he didn’t, I did for him…

Rush will tour

We were sure glad that he got this one!  But did he predict two tours within a year?

US will show open aggressions toward Iran, North Korea or Syria.

Sam is way more up to date on current affairs in this area than I am, so I’m not willing to make a call on this one.  Maybe it depends on how you define “open aggressions.”

Kristin:

Craig and Kris will visit Hawaii.

Yes, we did, in April I believe.  The trick here was that she got me to go, and boy am I glad!

Craig will see Rush at least twice.

Pretty safe prediction here, if they toured I’d see them – mulitiple times.  In fact I think Kris saw them four times, including the great front row experience outside of Sacramento!  My total turned out to be seven times…

There will be an attempt to reinstate the draft.

We’re all real glad this one didn’t seem to happen.  Although there were probably some political morons that floated the idea.

Craig:

I will ride the STP.

Ok, I have to come clean, I didn’t make it.  July turned out to be just too busy (Rush shows, weddings, HO office trip, a broker convention in Las Vegas, all on top of work…).  I think we figured out that I had about 4 nights at home over a five week period at that time.  I did get some training rides in, and hope to continue those!  Notice that I didn’t date the prediction.

Everyone in my immediate family (3) will have HP by 7-31-07.

I have to admit, I was confused by this one: was HP some dread desease we were all going to contract?  Then in one of those few moments of clarity I have, I realized that it should have said “will have read HP by 7-31-07.”  Of course, HP was the final installment of the Harry Potter series.  I believe it was released on 7-21-07, so I figured Sam, Kristin and J’Neil will have it read within 10 days.  Sure enough, we got our copies of it a little past midnight (right after a Rush concert!) I think Sam took about 2 days, Kristin only took a couple of days more and I’m pretty sure J’Neil had it done by the end of the month.  You know, there could be an argument made that it actually was some dread desease…

California will fall into the ocean.

Hey, I can dream can’t I….