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2008 has just started and I'm ahead of the curve. I've already compiled my top 10 list of my favourite albums from 2007. Guess what, some of them were even released last year. You can check it out here.

The United Nations has declared 2008 to be the year of the potato - God Bless the chip (or crisp for my friends across the pond).

This year started off with one of the strangest Scrabble games I've ever played. My son decided this year to play some board games. I challenged him to a game of Scrabble and because I was feeling charitable said he could go first. I handed him the Scrabble dictionary and said he could search for words if he liked.

He took the book and proceeded to thumb through the pages. After a couple of minutes, I decided I may as well go to the can. I came back a few minutes later, and he was sitting in his chair grinning like the cat that not only swallowed the canary, but managed to fit in a bag of crisps to boot.

"What's up squirt." I say. He points at the board. "What's a jetbead?" I ask. He fans the pages of the dictionary, and a moment later says, "It's a shrubbery." Visions of the Knights Who Say Ni danced through my head. He starts adding up to the points. "...and an extra 50 for using all my letters equals 100 points. Is that good?"

Is that good he asks? Sheesh. His first game of Scrabble and he hits it out of the park with his first word. The game lasted a couple of hours and going into my last turn the score 304 for him, and 296 for me. I played my last tiles, and caught him with four points. So when all was said and done we'd tied at 300 each. Pretty amazing.

Anyway back to the task at hand. He's hoping I can finally catch up on my book reviews. I've only got two year's worth of stuff piled in the basement waiting for me. I can't remember most of what I stuffed into my head, so there's a good chance I may never get to it - oh well.

Here's to another year. Hard to believe I've been polluting the web with my drivel for a decade. Time flies.

Jevon the Tall
January 2008