I overheard a couple 18-year-olds talking over the holidays about how the past year just whipped by and I couldn’t help but smile.
“Just wait until you’re my age,” I laughed.
They just kind of looked at me funny, partly due to the fact that I was actually listening to their conversation, and partly because most certainly they can wait until they’re my age, which at their stage must seem like light years away.
Although, hey, they are already starting to notice that time is ticking away whether they like it or not.
And it’s typical at the end of the year that you actually notice that it’s going faster than you would like.
So I usually make some well-intentioned resolutions about getting in shape, seizing the day and living life to the fullest….and promptly fall on my face around, oh, January 13 or so.
But this coming year will be different. I’m not making any resolutions.
However, I will try to work on my so-called deficiencies and hone my better attributes in a never-ending quest to justify my existence.
And while I’m at it I’m not above making some predictions for the coming year called 2013.
Hey, prognostication isn’t just an art for the psychics of this world, and I figure I’m pretty good at procrastination so why not try my hand at prognostication? Ahem.
So, here goes, nothing as they say:
* There will be a National Hockey League game played in 2013. That should make you feel better, however I’m not saying if it will be this season or next, which takes a lot of the joy out of it and most of the impact of the prediction but nevertheless I’m sticking with it.
* The Vancouver Canucks will win the Stanley Cup if there is a season played in the early part of 2013. Of course this is a big if and completely irrelevant if there’s no season, but notice that I didn’t say the Toronto Maple Leafs will win if there is a season, which shows I believe there still may be a season, if you can follow that logic.
* The B.C. Lions will make up for this year’s semi-final flop and win the Grey Cup and if the Canucks also win the Stanley Cup, as predicted earlier, city council will pass a motion to declare Vancouver the city of champions in a bid to get rid of that city of riots reputation. The City of Edmonton complains bitterly, as they have won many more championships than Vancouver, but it’s been so long they’re now more known as the city that can’t get a rink built.
* In one of the most amazing political comebacks in B.C. history, Christy Clark and the Liberals retain power in the spring election. I don’t know if this will happen but if it does I want to be able to say I predicted it here first.
* The pipeline debate continues on and on with one side saying “oil is evil” and the other side saying “jobs are king,” with no middle ground, which is where most of the rest of Canadians actually reside.
* Toronto’s new-look, highly paid baseball team lives up to all the hype and the Blue Jays win the World Series again, to go along with the Argonauts this year and council tries to dub Hogtown the city of champions but the West Coast beat them to it, and, hey, they still have the Leafs so let’s be serious.
* The fiscal cliff happens but it only lasts a week and then new steps taken by the Obama administration work quite well so that the president can take credit, all the while blaming the Republicans for it happening in the first place.
* The world doesn’t end in 2013 either but some guy on the Internet says the Mayans actually meant 2014 and people again begin to worry, until it doesn’t happen, again, and then we get on with our life, again.
