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\"\"Well, we made it!\u00a0 Another year gone by and still alive and kicking.\u00a0 Admittedly not kicking quite as hard as in preceding years but kicking, nonetheless.\u00a0 And that is a good thing.\u00a0 So, today is not only an anniversary date for the world as we begin another year but is an anniversary for my Wife who was born on New Years Day!\u00a0 Happy Birthday to my Wife Vicki!\u00a0 She probably won\u2019t read this, but I would be remiss in not at least extending the wish.\u00a0 Oh, let us not forget, there is yet another Anniversary to remember.<\/p>\n

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Today marks the beginning of the 11th<\/sup> year of existence of the Townehouse (blog).\u00a0 I posted my first article on January 1, 2010.\u00a0 It was oddly named \u201cHappy Birthday Vicki!\u201d.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think she read that one either, but now it is to late.\u00a0 Due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, which is an oblique way of referencing my stupidity for not backing up the website, the first couple of months\u2019 worth of articles were forever lost in digital space.\u00a0 Although I was able to recover some, I was not able to recover all, and thus the beginning months of this adventure in my life are forever lost.<\/p>\n

As you may recall, but probably do not, the first iteration of this site was called \u201cUnorganized Thoughts\u201d.\u00a0 It was so named because I did not know what I was going to write about, I only knew I was going to write about something.\u00a0 That name stood until a disaster occurred with the loss of the articles database.\u00a0 But also, as previously mentioned, most of my earliest articles were recovered and the website was resurrected under the name of the Townehouse Phoenix.\u00a0 It was so named because I cleverly considered the recovery as like that of the Phoenix Bird rising from the ashes.\u00a0 I thought this was very clever and I was quite proud of myself for thinking of it, but most did not get it, including the web search engines.\u00a0 Whenever I would perform a search for the Townehouse Phoenix I had many returns about Townehouse rentals in Phoenix, Arizona but very few about my website.\u00a0 So, another re branding ensued, and the Townehouse Blog was born.\u00a0 It has remained thus named for about the last seven years but recently the name was changed\u00a0 to Townehouse Voice.\u00a0 Should you want to know more about why it is called Townehouse (since I live in a ranch house) then you may click here<\/a> to read all about it.<\/p>\n

Okay, now we are all up to date.\u00a0 I am trying very hard to keep this light just in case you are reading this with a hangover.\u00a0 If you are, then you probably had more fun last night then did I.\u00a0 My New Year\u2019s Eve consisted of valiantly trying to stay awake until midnight so that I could be the first to Wish my wife Happy Birthday for the 45th<\/sup> time.\u00a0 Do not misunderstand that number to imply she is 45 years old, for she is not!\u00a0 But I have had the good fortune to be with her and be able to wish her Happy Birthday 46 of the years she has been in the world.\u00a0 I won\u2019t give away her age, but I will say the first time I wished her Happy Birthday was on her 21st<\/sup> birthday.\u00a0 You do the math. In conclusion, to all the readers of the Townehouse, I hope you have a very happy and prosperous New Year.\u00a0 Oh, and Happy Anniversary Townehouse!<\/p>\n

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Those are my thoughts, what are yours?<\/p>\n

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Well, we made it!\u00a0 Another year gone by and still alive and kicking.\u00a0 Admittedly not kicking quite as hard as in preceding years but kicking, nonetheless.\u00a0 And that is a good thing.\u00a0 So, today is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_daextrevo_audio_file_creation_date":"","_daextrevo_text_to_speech":"","_daextrevo_document_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/New-Year-Baby-Blank-324x235-1.jpg?fit=256%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":773,"url":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?p=773","url_meta":{"origin":12922,"position":0},"title":"50 Years Ago","author":"Tom Lind","date":"November 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday marked 50 years since the day John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed. 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