The new year started in the heartland, with the love one, over desserts and sweet nothings. Big breakfast from the Golden Arch. Bickering over nothing in particular in Cold Storage. Waldorf salad and belgium chocolate scrabble in the Gardens with a noisy puppy, a boy pissing, star spotting, a failure-to-launch rocket and a boy who invented a "hit the cock and then shake" game with his playmates. Two very bitter women bitching at Kinokuniya epitomized "anger is temporary insanity".

That's how my 2008 started.