Well my friends, we are here.
Nobody is wanting to see 20/20 anymore.
We have reached the last day of this forsaken year.
Let's have some fun (without causing a headache for put lovely MODs). Sum up this past year for yourself in a GIF, or just explain how you are going to pop the top on the new one and make it better.
Love y'all. Happy New Year! Go Hokies!
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This is going to be LancerHokie burning the calendar at midnight.
Yup! For the most part 2020 was hell so it deserves to burn. There were a few bright spots and glimmers of "normal" life but as a general rule it SUCKED!!!
We missed out on seeing friends and doing things. We missed out on being in Blacksburg (especially Lot 18).
Being stuck at home has been hard on everyone.
From March until June, I was a third grade teacher to Mini LancerHokie. Since school started in September I have been supervising her online learning and helping with things she had questions about. Doing virtual learning solidified my reasoning for not wanting to homeschool... Mini LancerHokie and I are too much alike and we get easily frustrated with each other when we are doing school things.
The years that I turned something-9 (19, 29, 39) were all shitty--the shit factor increasing each time.
But the Cup is back home in Blacksburg where it belongs and order will be restored to the universe.
One of my friends sent a Christmas card that said "May 2021 bring you health and joy and a year that bears no resemblance to 2020.
So we watched the ball drop and then went outside and lit the damn 2020 calendar on fire. There were some pretty green flames.
#MakeTheMove (to 2021)
Great thread idea. 2020 has sucked. Mostly because I haven't seen anyone in my family, except my Mom who stopped by around Christmas, since the pandemic started. I have two grandparents left who I'm very close to, as well as my Dad who has extremely severe chronic health issues, and I don't know how much time I have left with them. Really blows losing basically an entire year.
I'm hunting all day, enjoying some solitude and decent weather, then I plan on tying one on pretty well tonight. I didn't do a damn thing last New Year's Eve, so I think I'm partially to blame for this shit show. Never again.
Hope everyone has a fun (and safe!) evening, and that 2021 is a helluva lot better for all of us than 2020 turned out to be.
In less than 18 hours, 2020 will be hindsight.
Jan - Feb
March
April
also April
May
June - Aug
Football Season
Basketball Season
This is the best GIF I can find right now. Would love if someone could recommend a better one.
2020 was such a bizarre year for me. So many milestones, most of which happened, but none the way I expected or planned. I completed grad school, but didn't get to celebrate graduation. Started a new job, but I've met almost none of my coworkers. Planned our dream wedding, canceled it, replanned it for about 10% of the original guest list, and got married earlier than originally planned. Spent Thanksgiving away from my parents for the first time ever, but instead of traveling on Thanksgiving-eve, my wife and I toured & put an offer in on a home that we've since moved into.
All in all, I was/am very fortunate. It was a challenging year full of ups and downs. Nothing went as plan, but it turned out okay.
My 2020 between working from home most days and not going anywhere on the weekends.
2020:
How we expected 2020 to be:
What 2020 was:
At work
but
At home:
My efforts to remediate
So I'm just over here like:
In parting, to 2020 I say:
Well done sir!
Well, as much as this year was terrible for most of the world, me and Mrs MattBoard paid off the credit cards and bought a house. And delays in the initial mortgage process ended up getting us a much better interest rate.
Still...
via GIPHY
Very appropriate that you used a meme from the worst trek show for a 2020 thread
I see your Voyager hate and remind you that Enterprise and TOS: The Animated Series exist.
Y'all watch Discovery and Voyager starts looking way better and better.
Seriously though, even Enterprise was finding its direction right when it got canceled. I think season 5 of that show was decent till they ruined it with that finale episode.
Anyway, to comment on this gif. The Year of Hell Storyline from Voyager is actually a pretty good pair of episodes. And Red Foreman is the bad guy.
Enterprise is the best trek show, then only bad part about it is that was so short. Of course I have not seen any of the new ones since I dont have the new.cbs pay channel
The best? No way, but I do love Archer and somehow hope they get him back in the universe. If you haven't seen DS9 in recent history I reccomend trying it again. I was not a fan when it came out but that is one damn good show today.
I appreciate DS9 much more now than during its original run. Watching Voyager in my teens is what made me a Trekkie. I watched TNG with my dad when I was a kid (totally tripped me out seeing Geordi not wearing his VISOR on Reading Rainbow).
Feels:
2020 was bad but i thought id get through ok. Then i spilled glass of v8 on my laptop two days ago and now i have to wait until sunday for my new laptop to arrive. at least i can chalk it up to 2020 and say fuck it
2020:
Jan - March 2021:
April- June
July - Sept:
Hokies Football Season:
2022:
Not our pic, but I actually do know the couple in the pic.
Got married this year despite all the craziness all around...and this encapsulates it all.
That is possibly the coolest wedding photo I've ever seen
The photographer ending up winning a national contest with it. They didn't even know the strike happened because they were facing the camera, but he snapped right at the right time.
That makes it even better!
Plan is to start drinking momentarily and pass out by noon and wake up in 2021...get 2020 over as quickly as possible
Oh 2020, how I can't wait for you to be gone.
It wasn't all bad, but we cancelled a bunch of vacation/trips we had planned to stay inside and go mad. Planned a badass wedding, cancelled almost everything except for the ceremony & reception with family, then got the Rona and had to actually cancel it, rescheduled it, got married to my best friend, and that's that.
Oh, and it still somehow feels like April.
Somewhere around late March (October )
2020, the year that never happened that we all want to forget
I used to refer to 2010 as the year that didn't happen (although I still claim that my birthday does not exist that year and I skipped from 28 to 30) but I would say this year has been considerably worse and really didn't happen.
Burning it down doesn't bring my dog back. We just have to be strong and move on. Fuck cancer.
I fully agree. I wish I could give you multiple legs.
Fuck Cancer. And Fuck 2020 too.
Totally Fuck Cancer.
We lost our dog this year as well. Hokie the Border Collie. Rest In Peace, good girl.
Fuck Cancer. We lost our beautiful golden retriever Paisley last Thanksgiving to cancer. She was 2-1/2.
2020....
Hopefully 2021 will be more like this....
2020 definitely sucked. I was furloughed from my job for 3 months and I haven't seen my parents, and they haven't seen their grandkids, (other than Skype) since October of 2019. But otherwise, I don't have much to complain about. I got to spend a LOT of time with my wife and kids, we did several home improvement projects, I started grad school, and paid off my car. And I returned to work in July while thousands of others at my Company were laid off.
Still, 2020 as a whole can be summed up by:
Happy New Year everyone, and LET'S GO!!
HOKIES!!!!
2020:
2021 (I hope):
We see 2021 walking down the street. We run to welcome it. 2021 flips it's hair.
2020: Disguise Motherfucker
every time I think "well, 2021 will be better at least", I remember that reality doesn't care about the calendar and I get another case of the sads.
2021 won't have all of the election ads. Thumbs up to that at least.
the Virginia Gubernatorial Election is this year. We all get to choose the Guber
Yep election adds will start in July or August probably. Virginia doesn't get off years for election ads.
Oh gosh. One of the few times since leaving for grad school that I am glad I am not still in VA.
But then I am reminded that the NJ governor's election is 2021 as well.
D'oh!
FFS, I had blocked this out of my mind. Great job with the reminder.
And as if the universe herself decided to smirk at my comment... I found out today that an immediate family member is covid positive, I'm a close contact, need to quarantine into the new year and am now awaiting instructions from work HR for how to proceed with regard to returning onsite. There's a good chance they will force me to use PTO or be unpaid for the first week of the year.
Yeah, my employer is telling people to keep 2 weeks of PTO in reserve right now for this exact situation.
2020 was really a mixed bag for me...one the one hand, thankfully, covid did not affect my employment, so I have had a steady income since the beginning. My wife is a stay at home mom, so when my son's school went virtual, she wasn't too terribly inconvenienced, aside from losing what time she had to herself. Those are the two big positives.
On the down side, I hate it for my 6 year old son, that he's basically missed a year of playing with friends, going to school, etc...is he even going to remember what it is like when he is able to go back?
Over the past few years I've really started appreciating my time with my parents a lot more, they are getting older and I know that they won't be around forever. I feel like this year has stripped me and my wife and son from many opportunities to be with them. We've seen them from time to time, stayed distanced, gotten tested before seeing them...but I hate being worried to see my parents.
A few months ago, my niece, who had just graduated high school, and was 1 week away from enrolling in her freshman year at VCU was killed in a car accident when the kid driving (under the influence) went off the road and slammed her door into a tree at 70 mph.
Trying to grapple that grief, and being there for my family, and having our first virtual-thanksgiving and outdoor christmas gathering without her here....it's been shitty.
Here's hoping to a better 2021, but I'm not confident...at least not for the first half.
I'm sorry for your loss my brother.
That's been really tough here too. We are fortunate to live in a large neighborhood with a lot of his classmates and we've been doing playdates about 3 times (MWF) during the school week. Weekends have seen a lot of play for the neighborhood kids too. The cold and winter weather will make that more difficult. I really hope they are able to go back to school for the 2021-22 year with a more "normal" experience. Zoom has done well to keep the kids connected, but it isn't a replacement for the collaborate, hands on learning experience.
I'm really sorry to hear about your niece.
I hear y'all. Virtual learning has been a challenge. Mini LancerHokie has a friend that she sees on a regular basis, but I know she misses the interaction at school. Last week was one of her friends' birthday. The mom asked her friends to do a drive by birthday parade because she couldn't have a party.
A house in the neighborhood had up sweet 16 signs and my heart broke for that kid. In the grand scheme of things, manageable, but collectively, yeah this has been a rather terrible year.
So sorry for your loss.
The loss of a loved one is hard enough, but not being able to grieve with your family and friends makes it worse.
How mine started
Then it was
Onto:
Finishing it out with
No Gif....but i am sending 2020 packing while making a couple of batches of beer today.
Whatcha got brewing? I'm gonna be kegging my IPA this weekend. hoping to brew again in the next few days
An imperial IPA and a Belgian dubbel. Im a complete hack brewer....i have two 5 gallon setups. All plastic. Nothing fancy, but everything ive ever made works.....
I got rid of my glass fermenters in favor of plastic, nothing wrong there
Thanks Bro! Happy brewing and Happy New Year!
Congrats to Mississippi State and Tulsa for burning it down on their way out of 2020....
I was coming here to say the same thing hahaha
everything outside my front door was stone cold rotten, so to speak. But I've had my health, a steady job, and future-Mrs Beard's mom beat COVID. It could've been a lot worse. I'd just like people to get back to treating each other better this coming year
These match.com commercials are accurate for 2020:
Those are match.com ads!?!? Thats amazing.
One beef: satan says he is from hell but iirc he was ackshually cast out from heaven
yeah, but his current residence is hell.
I wouldn't go around saying where I was born or grew up in my profile, just where I live now.
fair
I, for one, live in state college pa but i am from Manassas VA
Y'all I didn't think it warranted is own thread, but at midnight instead of saying happy new year we all need to scream Jumanji! Get us the hell out of this game we called 2020!!
2020 watching us on NYE 2019:
2020 at the end of it all:
2021 watching us on NYE 2020:
Lost my dream job in May and still unemployed. 2020 can burn.
what was the job? What do you do?
Taught history at a community college. Not a lot of openings for that.
I've been trying to break into the history teaching game for over a decade. I've been employed at both the high school and middle school levels, but not as a principle instructor. I would love to be at the CC level.
It's not easy, and it seems to be getting harder, even though I hear there's a growing shortage.
I was told by a couple of people who stayed in academia, at least for a while, that it was actually quite easy to get a job teaching, but that it was very difficult to earn a living doing it. One was in history. Is it that you cannot find anything or more that they are just the instructor-type positions that pay something like $1,000 or $1,500 per class per semester and you cannot make ends meet? Not sure how much the job market has changed in the past few years, but it was horrid for Ph.D. scientists 20 years ago when I escaped (err, mean, transitioned) out of academia and into business consulting. Are you open to going into other areas? Not sure if you would consider a career change or if you are tied to a particular geographic area. I volunteer as a career mentor and would be happy to keep an eye out for you.
I would appreciate it. I'm 100% open to moving.
Yeah most of the jobs are adjunct, 1500 a semester type stuff. Which is how the system is moving unfortunately.
Doesn't help when Va CC enrollment has been on a decline for several years and then throw in budget cuts due to the pandemic and it leads to layoffs. Been some cuts across the whole system in 2020. Sorry, and hope things turn around soon.
Same sitch, I feel you.
Nothing to add gif-wise - the board did a good job summarizing. This was definitely a rough year overall, but thankful for what I have. Everyone in the family that needs a job has one, we have a close neighborhood where the kids can still play together and not raise health concerns, and TKP helped me cope when I needed an escape. Here's hoping for a better 2021!
Out with the old.
In with the new.
Good Lord above, I hope this gets better for us all.
Almost thought of posting this as a OT thread but figured it was not worth it's own thread. Did people see Ball State ended it's run of futility by winning it's first bowl game ever. Were 0-7 up to now.
"No school has been worse in bowl games than Ball State. The Cardinals entered the Arizona Bowl as one of eight teams at the top level of college football to never win a bowl game and the only one of those eight to have played in more than two bowl games."
Not bad, but 1 more strange event right at the end of 2020.
It's officially 2021! This is our world now
Well...2020 for me sounds like a country song...I lost my grandmother to COVID/pneumonia (she was 85 and lived a hell of a good life). My wife lost her grandmother and grandfather within the same 2 months. My dog aptly named "Big Ben" (because I'm a Steelers fan) died of cancer and had to bury him myself on a buddies farm. Luckily the wife and I didn't lose any work or pay because of our jobs and believe me I'm praying for all of you that did🙏. Those are the serious things in life that matter....I could also go on for a long time with my thoughts on the football program but it seems so far in the background right now that it doesn't feel right. Things are going to improve and we will all one day be back in lane screaming our heads off. Until then happy new year to all of you and so glad I'm part of the key play family.....god bless and go Hokies🙏🙏
opening ceremony at the NYE gig we played last night
2020 gave me one last fuck you, but also a blessing. AFPOW Sr. thought he had another heart attack (He didn't. That's the blessing.). The fuck you was he wound up in Wake Forest because it was the closest hospital with any room.
So, when they finally discharged him I had to drive from Lynchburg to Wake Forest to Giles and back to Lynchburg.
Rung in the new year on 460 near Montvale.
But as much as the drive sucked, what really grinds my gears is that the closest hospital for him to have a room from Giles was fucking Wake Forest.
Taking COVID seriously isn't just about whether you're concerned about the virus or not. Thankfully, he wasn't haven't another heart attack or worse. He may have been fucked simply due to the lack of beds.
So, pretty please...with sugar on top...take the fucking shit seriously.
But the old man is ok. So, I remain thankful.
A lot of hospitals in Va are pretty much full and have to divert cases. Pretty sad.