Matt Howell

Each week, the BBC Magazine chronicles interesting and sometimes downright unexpected facts from the news, through its strand 10 things we didn’t know last week. Here, to round off the year, are some of the best from the past 12 months.
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Holidaze happens between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. It’s usually a week of almost no work and all excess. For example:
Tuesday - Slept in, ate too much, took a nap, went to the Legion and stayed up too late.
Wednesday - Slept in, came into work, listened to new iPod shuffle all day, had lunch [...]

ONE: Give people more than they expect and do  it cheerfully.
TWO: Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as  important as any other.
THREE: Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
FOUR:  When you say, “I love you,” mean it.
FIVE: [...]

Friday night my friend Kyle was in town for Christmas. After some last minute shopping Friday afternoon, we made our way back into Muncie for drinks and fellowship at “The Fickle Peach” in downtown Muncie. After a little while, we made our way closer to home to the Parker bar. Good times and good company.
Saturday [...]

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good time! :-)

Turtle

Turtles

Big Fish

Shark

Lobster

Tom & Jerry

Ray

Earl

Lot ‘o Fish

Jelly

Jellies

Marlin

Nemo

Bruce

Grrrr!

Lionfish

Sexy Shark

Duh!

Wed. 4:20am - I woke up, got ready and left for Muncie. I picked up Rob in Muncie and we made our way down to Indy and picked up Doug at 6:30am. We arrived at the airport a little after 7am and met Mike at the airport.
The plane ride was nice and we landed in [...]

All I can say about December 2006 - It went fast, it was busy and I spent a boat-load of money on Christmas presents! Here are some highlights:
Saturday Dec. 2nd
I did the DJ thing for a 2nd year in a row for the Community Hospital of Anderson Blood Bank at the Edgewood Country Club in [...]