Happy Birthday Pinus!

Can you believe it's been a year? A year since I've been spewing my guts onto the world wide web. A year since (amazingly) people started reading the random gibberish produced by the mind of an over-imaginative (and sometimes alarmingly disturbing) 4 year old - I'm almost 5 mind you; though some will argue 19 and almost 20 : what came first I ask? The hen or the egg? It was the big bang, duh (or not?) - don't you just LOVE puns?

I can't remember when I first posted to the Pinus and in all honesty technicalities matter little (and really I'm just too lazy to go back and check the birthday of "Salute to the Chinaman"), the point is though (because as you might have come to realise, there is always a point to the seemingly nonsensical rambling), that it's been a while. The Pinus may be a baby in the limitless world of blogging, but its my baby, and I'm immensely proud of it. So you can bet your first pay-checks that you'll be reading a lot more absurd (and sometimes genius) chapters from the unfinished novel in my mind.

2012 has accosted us, and personally, I don't think the worlds going to end till Hollywood can come up with a better excuse for the worlds saviour than the Drakensberg mountains (which are lovely don't get me wrong, but....seriously?). I have a feeling the year ahead is going to be more exciting than when Darth Vader blurted out in his epicly creepy voice that Luke was really the bastard child of a Sith Lord (and no, it's not the false optimism that comes along every new year when you've had so many shots you've lost count and even your grandma's cat seems like an acceptable make-out buddy - because I don't drink see); it's this feeling I have deep in my bone marrow (yes, that deep), that stems from it being a Leap Year: this year, the 29th of February is an actual day on the tacky Spar calendars that we get every single year. No year that features my absolutely rare and exceedingly special birth date can ever be a bad one. That's a Pinus Promise (if it turns out to be the year from hell for you - that's  your issue with Karma my friend).

So, belatedly, here's a toast: to 2012 and the enormous potential it has to be the best year any of us have ever had. Nothing will ever match up to Vader's revelation, but I'm pretty sure my Leap Year is going to come fantastically close!