• The economic downtown affecting my job
  • One or both of my parents becoming seriously ill
  • Getting diabetes
  • Getting fat
  • Sustaining a minor injury that requires Katie to take care of me for an extended period of time
  • Forgetting to pay a bill on time and getting a late fee
  • Having all my friends suddenly discover how dull I’ve become and abandoning me
  • Receiving a blow on the head while playing a team sport that gives me amnesia
  • Arriving home to find that one of our cats has eaten the other
  • Taylor Hicks in Grease
  • The drive on my Xbox 360 dying
  • Being last in my fantasy baseball for the second year in a row
  • Losing my right hand in a freak accident at the zoo and having to learn to do everything with my left hand
  • A mounted television falling on my head while in a sports bar/grill
  • Forgetting to write a blog post on day 362
  • Brian Gray slipping on the ice in front of his home, only to slide uncontrollably down the hill into oncoming traffic and being run over by a Menorah car
  • Robot uprising
  • Being on an episode of What Not to Wear
  • Quoting something I thought was from something only to be informed that it is actually from something else
  • Mispronouncing the word wafer