QOTD is back. I regret not keeping a list in 2020. It would have been a wild year to have a list of quotes.

-edit- The website went down for about a month and I was being lazy about getting it back up. The large gaps in the quotes were from when the website went down. Don’t worry, they were largely uneventful.

Contents

01. January
02. February
03. March
04. April
05. May
06. June
07. July
08. August
09. September
10. October
11. November
12. December

January

January 1: “It’s really hard to find anyone I can stand to be around for any length of time.” -Betsy Hall
January 2: “Sometimes the strongest traps are the ones we put ourselves in.” -Carlos Eiene (link to his video)
January 3: “You are an extrovert. You’ll be okay.” -Vladimir Sanchez
January 4: “Do you have barbershop tenor in you?” -Jared Blatterman
January 5: “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
January 6: “The people who feel the sting of their own inadequacies and keep working at it… they are the ones who eventually find the magic.” -DSLRguide (video link)
January 7: “Sometimes as a human… when you say nice things to people, it feels nice to get something in return.” -Esther Kim
January 8: “Making out in the backseat of a car in an empty Fred Meyer parking lot.”
January 9: “The critical question for our generation–and for every generation–is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever say, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ was not there?” -John Piper
January 10: “Can I have a fork to eat my breakfast please?” (link to post)
January 11: “Composition is improvisation in slow motion; improvisation is composition in fast motion.” -Wayne Shorter
January 12: “I still have to make frosting.” -Betsy Hall
January 13: “You are a good bassist, and you’re very proficient at piano.” -Rob Gorini
January 14: “We can’t let you have your pillows, sorry.” -hostel receptionist
January 15: “I like my toys.” -Eric Wang
January 16: “I know that background…” -Patrick Daly
January 17: “I’m not a dog, but my tail is waggin’.” -Herb
January 18: “haha pinche Ramon” -Vladimir Sanchez
January 19: “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.” -Frank Zappa
January 20: “不要做你會後悔的事。” -Mom
January 21: “How much should I tip? What do you want?” -really scary-looking Russian Bulgarian guy
January 22: “There’s an saying in the army, ‘Perception is everything.’ “-Wayne Smith
January 23: “Yeah, you wouldn’t even be able to tell if you weren’t looking.” -Matt Nielsen
January 24: Left the house without locking the door, slow morning, overwhelmingly busy evening, back pain, car broke down, did really poorly on a coding assessment. At least your friends got your teriyaki.
January 25: “謝謝你這幾天來幫忙，還好有你。” -Uncle James
January 26: “Yarrrr. I have gout.”
January 27: “I think you should try, man.” -Rob Gorini
January 28: “Down with impostor syndrome. Have the audacity. Claim your greatness.” -Betsy Hall
January 29: “I honestly still can’t believe this is happening.” -KT Watt
January 30: “Life has no greater value than when you use it to impact people’s eternity with the message of God’s love.”
January 31: “活到老，学到老。”

February

February 1: “When life hands you lemons, throw a lemon party.”
February 2: “Everyone’s friends with Lois.” -girl behind counter
February 3: “You can’t live your life for other people.” -Paul Kim
February 4: “Everything on this planet has to live for something.” -Alvaro Licea
February 5: “Thank you so much for waiting. Please have this on the house.” -Floor Manager, Asadero Sinaola
February 6: “Your hair looks really good when it’s down.” -Sarah Robinson
February 7: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” -Henry Ford
February 8: “I’ll make sure I get you an offer.” -Uzair Qasim
February 9: “We stopped carrying them three or four years ago. The pandemic made things weird.” -cashier, Ballard Market
February 10: “My doctor says I need to move around more.” -Gina Lee
February 11: “…when you allow Black culture to end up to be the punchline, laughing at the joke also means… laughing at us.” -Objective Opinions (video)
February 12: “Look at the sunshine, it’s AMAZING.” -lady on hike
February 13: “I’m just here to help out.” -P. James Kim
February 14: “The dudes have to love the other dudes. The girls are busy loving each other.” -ooobk
February 15: “Cut your hair.” -dad
February 16: “Parking lot bbq when it’s dark outside is a mood :3” -min
February 17: “‘90% of success is showing up.’ I didn’t come up with that. Old people are wise.” -Eden Helstein
February 18: “I have processed the offer internally. You should receive a docusign offer by Monday.” -Uzair Qasim
February 19: “Your value lies in who you are, not what you’ve done.” -me
February 20: “You have no idea the number of people who said they wanted to come visit me when I told them I was moving to Seattle.” -Jesse Friedman
February 21: “Wanna get lunch?” -James Hayes
February 22: “Glad the work you’ve been doing paid off.” -Rayen Acode
February 23: “I’d choose money over girls. ’cause money is stable but girls come and go.” -PumbaKills
February 24: “You know what they say: if you’re having three dinners in one night, you might as well have four.”
February 25: “Bruh. Only Monday – Wednesday.” -Meartu
February 26: “Is it that loud?” -Betsy Hall
February 27: “As I go through counseling school, I’ve learned two things: you are responsible for your own action, and nuance is an inevitable part of life.” -Jane Lee
February 28: “This guy has great taste in food.” -TChub

March

March 1: “Did you ask if you can fart in here?” -Sarah Robinson
March 2: “I started working out yesterday.” -Rayen Acode
March 3: “Thursday is when new houses drop.” -Patrick Daly
March 4: “You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.” -Germaine Greer
March 5: “Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don’t forget to have art in your life – music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.” -Eric Carle
March 6: “Days Inn. Stay away from that. ‘Expedia special.’ That’s the dingy trap.” -Zeni
March 7: “She can actually hold a conversation. That’s rare.” -Josh Kim
March 8: “You are very stuck in your ego that you think your interpretations are always correct.”
March 9: “Once you’ve met someone you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.” -Zeniba, Spirited Away
March 10: “We definitely have a murder problem.” -Ninian
March 11: “Yeah, that’s why I invited Jon along.” -Min
March 12: “You did it!” -Escape room host (Wizards, QF)
March 13: “We may not agree with them, but that doesn’t mean we don’t love them.”
March 14: “The way you identify a counterfeit: you know the original.” -Pastor David Henneke (link)
March 15: “It’s very straightforward.” -Nicole Ng
March 16: “What did I learn after 29 years? Not to eat food while it’s still hot.” -Christian Kwon
March 17: “That was really fun.” -Michael Hwang
March 18: “I’ve never been here.” -Jolene
March 19: “Keep it for the next time you come up here.” -Zeni
March 20: “Don’t attack someone’s reality, even if you known it to be false. Offer that person a better perception, and let them make their own reality better.” – Daryl Davis
March 21: “It takes time and effort to figure out what you really want to do with your life. It takes effort to realize how to spend that money you may have been accumulating. It takes effort to live a great life. It’s not going to just come at you.” -Patrick “TechLead” Shyu (link)
March 22: “This release was so easy. It was a little disappointing.” -Ganba
March 23: “Will you help me make brownies?” -Betsy Hall
March 24: “That’s an incident. We need to report that.” -Clyde Tedrick
March 25: “When God calls you to serve… there’s no excuse.” -Nicole Ng
March 26: “There is nobody that everybody likes.” -Maria, West Side Story
March 27: “Woman, behold your son.” -Jesus, John 19:26
March 28: “Am I imagining things?” -Jamaal Royal
March 29: “Clean code is simple and direct. Clean code reads like well-written prose.” -Grady Booch
March 30: “Human beings do not think in straight lines.” -Uncle Bob
March 31: “Psychological safety is the biggest contributor to workplace productivity.”

April

April 1: “Somebody has a gold backpack. Which means someone should be playing support… and not throwing the game.” -Sam
April 2: “They’re friendly, they’re just stupid.” -dog owner on hike
April 3: “Stories are a lot like jokes. The quality of every single factor is entirely dependent on the way that it is delivered.” -Shammy (link)
April 4: “I’m just trying to prevent you from getting hit with a scary bill.” -Tim, The Everett Clinic
April 5: “I’m jealous of your hair.” -Sophany
April 6: “That was the Seattle special.” -Jacob Collier
April 7: “I feel bad that you had no prep for this.” -Jamaal Royal
April 8: “The measure of a good gift is how distraught you are when you lose it.” -Clyde Tedrick
April 9: “Advertising really is the closest vantage point from which we can peer into the abyss.” -Tantacrul (link to video)
April 10: “You guys are too supportive. Here’s how you do it. Andrew, you suck at music.” “….and?!” -Andy Robinson; Andrew Williams
April 11: “You know why fake medicine is so widespread despite no evidence of its efficacy? ’cause those guys spend time with you and pretend to give a fuck. They vaguely seem like they’re paying attention to your body and your needs. Whereas if you go to the actual doctor, you’ll see him for five minutes and be charged anywhere from 0 to 700 dollars.” -Yoseph Kim. Happy birthday, buddy.
April 12: “There is no such thing as temporary code. Any temporary code becomes permanent.” -Steven Gonchar
April 13: “Chocolate is like hamburgers.” -Bill Fredricks, the chocolate man
April 14: “I feel like I haven’t seen you in a while.” -Aliah Kim
April 15: “We like hiking so much we named our child after a mountain.” -John Lee
April 16: “You get special treatment.” -server at Moshi Moshi
April 17: “It sounds much better when you’re up there.” -Matt Nielsen
April 18: “Vacancies don’t write much code.” -Doug Knesek
April 19: “Life is a choose your own adventure game except you’re forced to skip character creation and you become acutely aware of how limited your choices are.” -me
April 20: “A heart’s a heavy burden.” -Sophie, Howl’s Moving Castle
April 21: “I want to start having a blog too.” -Vladimir Sanchez
April 22: “Unfortunately, I need to announce that Clyde will be leaving our team.” -Andrew Yochum
April 23: “Mom woke me up at 4 am to check a wind machine. Had a bday pizza at 5 am.” -Eric Wang. Happy birthday, buddy.
April 24: “Vegas for 30?” -Christian Kwon
April 25: “Kids stab, girls shoot, boys punch. Grown-ups fight with their heads. That’s where the real battle is.”
April 26: “Good night! See you in five more weeks.” -PumbaKills
April 27: “Butter is tempered.” -Bill Fredricks
April 28: “It’s hard to pretend you love someone when you don’t, but it’s harder to pretend that you don’t love someone when you really do.” -Johnny Bravo
April 29: “We should meet up somewhere central. Where is that? Hawaii? Egypt?” -Life Group
April 30: “You don’t like nature?” -Betsy Hall

May

May 1: “How can you really love Jesus and not love each other?” -Mike
May 2: “I admire your sense of altruism with all of this, but I want to make sure our expectations are in the right place here.” -Tim Plummer
May 3: “I admire your dedication.” -Brice Ruth
May 4: “If you’re not growing, you’re dying.” -Beth Atwood
May 5: “We can play this game with thirty people? I don’t think I even know thirty people.” -overheard at Mox Boarding House
May 6: “The workers here with kids look like they’re one meltdown away from killing themselves.”
May 7: “I’m doing pretty good but this is pretty tough.” -Justin Chew
May 8: “Jiwoon, thank you for being my worship leader.” -John Lee
May 9: “Happiness is derived from growth.” -Brad Harrison (link)
May 10: “It’s up to you what you do with that idea.” -Jamaal Royal
May 11: “Shame to hear that you’re leaving, wish you well man.” -Chem
May 12: “I’m super impressed.” -Sarah Robinson
May 13: “You have a great ear.” -Steven Gonchar
May 14: “Intelligence is an overrated trait to have in a partner. It just makes them more prone to certain neuroses.” -Yoseph Kim
May 15: “Just because you are excellent at certain things and not as good at other things, doesn’t mean you’re bad at those other things.” -Patrick Daly
May 16: “… a few points away from diamond.” -Andrew Yochum
May 17: “In Ganba we Trust.”
May 18: “Some might say I’m *voice cracks* a snack.”
May 19: “Happiness is love. Full stop.” -George Vaillant
May 20: “Good intentions and incompetence. A combination as old as time itself.”
May 21: “You can’t please everyone, so you might as well try to please someone.”
May 22: “Good work tonight, man. It sounded like you’ve been working on your solos! I was impressed.” -Jared Blatterman
May 23: “You drink too much water.” -Mom
May 24: “Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” -A.A. Milne
May 25: “In their mating & migratory habits, liberals are indistinguishable from members of the KKK.” -Joseph Sobran
May 26: “Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.” -Cpt. Jack Sparrow
May 27: “Do you guys want to come down and critique this soprano? She’s from Korea and I want to know what you think about her singing. Also, I happen to think she’s quite attractive.” -Noel’s dad
May 28: “You should get married. Right now.” -David Kim
May 29: “You have much less of a conscience than I do.” -Betsy Hall
May 30: “I like that team. They win first place for being fun.” -dude at trivia
May 31: “The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.” -Norm MacDonald

June

June 1: “I nominate you to start paying attention now.” -Jamaal Royal
June 2: “You don’t have to be tall be to be rich. You’re prejudiced.” -Justin Chew
June 3: “Do I like pets? Yeah, I like pets.” -Ganba
June 4: “No offense to the show but I’m sure it sucks.” -benetsugarboy
June 5: “I’m going to miss you.” -Jiwoon Choi
June 6: “How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
June 7: “It would be unfair for us to expect you to make that change.” -Valentine Afong
June 8: “THANK YOU FOR COMING IN. Anyway–” -lady at REI
June 9: “It was… different. But I’d do it again.” -Christian Kwon
June 10: “Three guaranteed industries are agriculture, food, and healthcare.” -Valentine Afong
June 11: “It was pleasant, except I lied about not waking up in a lake.” -Betsy Hall
June 12: “Thank you for letting me pretend like I know what I’m doing!” -Sarah Robinson
June 13: “I’m just here for comic relief.” -Andrew Yochum
June 14: “Yeah, that was a conversation I had more than once.” -Jesse Friedman
June 15: “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” -Winnie the Pooh
June 16: “If only my wife were so accommodating.” -Don Celli
June 17: “It’s tricky. It took me forever to figure this out. Once I did, stuff got way better. It’s like a form of communication, a super powerful one.” -Yoseph Kim
June 18: “You live and learn. Or you don’t live long.” -Robert Heinlein
June 19: “Your mouth vulva is hairy.” -???
June 20: “Most of life is just figuring stuff out.” -Don Celli
June 21: (while looking at a moose) “What is that? … a horse?” “A cow!”
June 22: “I feel like I’ve been faking it, even after ten years.” -Paul Stepler
June 23: “Dad, isn’t that the Porgy leitmotif from Porgy and Bess?” -conductor’s son, age 6
June 24: “Sanity is pretty low this day.” -Patrick Daly
June 25: “I want to be clear that I trust you. Which is something I can’t say about some others.” -Sarah Robinson
June 26: “I don’t know how to tell you this… but that’s another black person :D” -Jamaal Royal
June 27: “Yeah, stairs are hard but then you’ll have a bigger butt.” -random hiker
June 28: “But like… instead of doing things, I’m Silent Nighting.” -Sarah Robinson
June 29: “
June 30: “Please stop asking for a one-day PI. It’s never going to happen.” -Aaron Thompson

July

July 1: “We’ve been up since 5 am.” -Jolene
July 2: “You’ve got the best frown I’ve ever seen.” -interviewer
July 3: “I need to update my blog.” -me
July 4: “We should do grilling and singing more often.” -Sarah Robinson
July 5: “Look. Here is a baby.” -Patrick Daly
July 6: “I want to practice intervals.” -Betsy Hall
July 7: “I’m not going to learn to play harp in heaven. This is my paradise.” -Andy Robinson
July 8: “
July 9: “Some very talented people would have to die.” -Jared Blatterman
July 10: “Nice song selection.” -Mark Crouter
July 11: “What beautiful music.” -Charlene Utt
July 12: “nice!!” -Vaibhav Nigam
July 13: “That’s why I like winter so much.” -me
July 14: “Even with the old ones like Mahler, fake it sometimes.” -Tigran Arakelyan
July 15: “We should do this every Friday.” -Nate Page
July 16: “Thanks for being willing to poop in the woods.” -Betsy Hall
July 17: “What if the right side of history is on the wrong side of eternity?” -Pastor Sean Gasperetti
July 18: “Next time we rehearse, show me your instrument.” -Daniel Shen
July 19: “That’s not my yob.” -Don Celli
July 20: “It’s done.” -Frodo
July 21: “Have you had anything to drink?” -officer
July 22: “I see you took ‘dress rehearsal’ literally.” -Anne Warner
July 23: “There’s just something about a mediocre orchestra playing happy.”
July 24: “Three blind mice, three blind mice. One a penny, two a penny…. wait…” -Betsy Hall
July 25: “Is your hair still long?” -Nathan Sim
July 26: “She’s my tropical princess.” -Andrea Hansen
July 27: “Time can heal a lot of wounds, but eventually everyone runs out of time.” -Yoseph Kim
July 28: “I really like that.” -Christian Kwon
July 29: “I wish you would stop almost getting in accidents and actually getting in accidents.” -Betsy Hall
July 30: “Is your dad a mechanical engineer, by chance?” -Jenny West
July 31: “We haven’t done any business.” -Sales manager at Honda dealership

August

August 1: “Believe it or not, I used to be just like him.” -Tim Plummer
August 2: “You’ve gotten enough shoutouts today.” -Valentine Afong
August 3: “
August 4: “You grew your hair out.” -Dr. Sang Cho
August 5: “They’re very weak.” -massage therapist
August 6: “I can tell you’re really excited.” -Susana
August 7: “It was nice getting my ass beat for two hours.” -aomgry
August 8: “Money isn’t important. Health is #1.” -Aunt Lu
August 9: “He’s probably not autistic.” -Beth
August 10: “I don’t want to be critical of food.” -Betsy Hall
August 11: “I have a Sammy Sung.” -Jamaal Royal
August 12: “It’s way easier going through life wanting to like things than going through life wanting to hate things.” -Mango
August 13: “Your money is your power.” -mom
August 14: “I’ve never known Andy to bring down a group of people.” -Betsy Hall
August 15: “I can’t believe it’s not mayonnaise.” -Valerie
August 16: “Effective immediately, [he] is no longer part of [the company].” -Valentine Afong
August 17: “It’s not negative space, it’s potential space.” -Betsy Hall
August 18: “They’re cute when they want to be. They’re also assholes when they want to be.” -passing hiker
August 19: “The lake thing.” -passing hiker

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September

September 1: “You’re real.” -Jamaal Royal
September 2: “Genius lives on, all else is mortal.” -Andreas Vesalius
September 3: “That was a bit extreme. And since you’ve been pretty cool about it, I’ll give you 25% off from your bill.” -waiter
September 4: “It’s nice when Christians don’t do a bad job.” -Paul Stepler
September 5: “The dead only know one thing: it is better to be alive.”
September 6: “The ones with their own pains and struggles often give the most.”
September 7: “Tell me I’ve led a good life. Tell me I’m a good man.”
September 8: “Looking forward to working with a part time doofus. :)” -Jenna Hansen

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September 20: “When you go in a restaurant and grab a menu, you are actually deciding whether you will be a little fatter or a little thinner the next day.” -Tony Rihan
September 21: “Income isn’t worth anything if it isn’t helping you build net worth. That’s where real wealth is.” -Justin Chew
September 22: “It took me six to nine months to get comfortable on this project.” -Rachel Schneiderman
September 23: “We’ve known each other for five years. I think we’re both at our limit.” -Rosie Highsmith
September 24: “Now she won’t have to spend so much time with me.” -Beth Atwood
September 25: “Y’all, Andy and Leo are not feeling well.” -Sarah Robinson
September 26: “It’d be like Rush Hour 1.” -S2J
September 27: “Everyone gets challenges. And I’m not defined by the fact that I’m facing them, I’m defined by how I’m handling them.” -Sweet Anita
September 28: “
September 29: “I’m so lucky to have met you.” -Justin Chew
September 30: “Most people try to under-promise and over-deliver. Me? I under-promise… and deliver.” -Chris Choi

October

October 1: “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” -Gilbert Chesterton
October 2: “That’s my entire company.” -Betsy Hall
October 3: “Irrelevant, irrelevant, false. But at the same time, I support your decision.” -Zeni
October 4: “It’s up too much. I’m bullish.” -Tom Sosnoff
October 5: “SNIIIIIFFFFFFF” -Eric Wang
October 6: “Welcome to the team.” -Mike Marcotte
October 7: “Don’t shake it, it’s a myth.” -guy
October 8: “What is that?” -neighbor who (thankfully) did not see all the spiders
October 9: “No judgement.” -Sarah Robinson
October 10: “Truth is where fact and opinion intersect.”
October 11: “I can teach you a banishing ritual if you like. You have to be ok with waving your arms like a doofus, though.” -Yoseph Kim
October 12: “I’m not sure why but I turned my phone around in an attempt to read your shirt.” -Zeni
October 13: “Happiness can and should be shared with others :)” -LeGamjas
October 14: “I smell pot. Jared’s here.” -Shea Hurley
October 15: “Hey everyone, if you look at the window, you will see Andrew peeing.” -Andy Robinson
October 16: “No one ever does.” -Beth Atwood
October 17: “Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting in punched in the face for it.” -Mike Tyson
October 18: “The most inspiring person is the one overcoming the fear of doing something, not the one who’s excellent at it.” -Ed Mylett
October 19: “So you’re an offal person.” -Marc Chu
October 20: “Life’s end. Isn’t it beautiful? It’s almost tragic. When life ends, it gives off a final lingering aroma. Light is but a farewell gift from the darkness to those on their way to die.” -The Boss
October 21: “Relationships are all about vengeance.” -Rachel Schneiderman
October 22: “I bet [he’s] depressed.” -Betsy Hall
October 23: “Legally, I own half of this song.” -Andy Robinson
October 24: “If you have a restaurant and you have a really good cook, you’re either going to have to offer them ownership or they’re going to open their own restaurant.”
October 25: “Never underestimate the man who overestimates himself.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
October 26: “The man who takes more pride in the steps it takes to attain the goal than the goal itself is unstoppable.” -Wes Watson
October 27: “When you work, work. When you play, play. Don’t mix the two.” -Jim Rohn
October 28: “A lot of people who say they want ‘free speech’ actually just want to be the one in charge of which speech is free.” -Hank Green
October 29: “I have terrible sons.” -mom
October 30: “You only get one.” -Jared Blatterman
October 31: “There’s a lot in a name.” -Betsy Hall

November

November 1: “You guys are laughing. That means you’re finally starting to get my sense of humor.” -Jenna Hansen
November 2: “The thing that makes me possible is the only thing in our natural lives that we can’t look at.” -John and Hank Green
November 3: “Take some board games.” -Paul Chun
November 4: “Don’t give up, and be kind to others.” -Beth Atwood
November 5: “Kodi’s a little microbe.” -Keith Smith
November 6: “Isn’t there more business time?” -Jared Blatterman
November 7: “You get two MAX” -Sarah Robinson
November 8: “I did a good job.” -mom
November 9: “Interrupting the patterns of thought and behavior that are holding you back and pushing yourself forward is the only way you are going to change.” -Mel Robbins
November 10: “Thank you.” -Rick Goshen
November 11: “Thank your broker.” -Yoseph Kim
November 12: “Pleasure doing business.” -Greg Jurkowski
November 13: “I love the Christmas Sea Shanty. Anyway I could get those words?” -Scott Biethan
November 14: “When do you get the keys?” -notary
November 15: “How do you think that retro went? ” -Nate Page
November 16: “It was stupid.” -Betsy Hall
November 17: “Elon Musk is a martyr.” -Rayen Acode
November 18: “You should get a degree in Germany.” -Tom Elliott
November 19: “Pretty sure I specifically told you to watch out for pin risk ” -Yoseph Kim
November 20: “You’ve got a lot of compliments for me today.” -Shannon Ludeman
November 21: “Glad you’re here, I think you make toff happy.” -HeyyaNITO
November 22: “哥哥就是喜歡找麻煩。” -dad
November 23: “word on the street is that you are a big nerd” -Vladimir Sanchez
November 24: “I thought technology was supposed to make our lives easier. Right now it’s more like an impediment.” -Paul Hall
November 25: “I’m at Apple now.” -Everet Wang
November 26: “My pants aren’t sentient enough to do that.” -Betsy Hall
November 27: “I’ve never seen anyone do that.” -lady at Ivar’s
November 28: “You look like you’re feasting 5 plates of pasta” -Grace Choi
November 29: “I just want to support your cause.” -Jung Hoon Kim
November 30: “Love the title, btw.” -Ira Wahlmeier

December

December 1: “I have been talking to everybody I ever met about cats starting when I was five, I didn’t know I could get paid for that. Who knew?” -Betsy Hall
December 2: “I love a good rainbow barf.” -Sarah Robinson
December 3: “Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.” -Jonathan Lockwood Huie
December 4: “A girl -.-” -bulgogidood
December 5: “I like Giggles’ story better.” “Same.” -guildist; inctis
December 6: “Rule number one: don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two: it’s all small stuff.” -Greg Hall
December 7: “It’s not like anyone forgot you.” -legamjas
December 8: “I never even thought to have a candid conversation about this.” -Rachel Schneiderman
December 9: “I don’t know if the food is good or bad, it’s my first time having it. But I’ve been sold by the service.” -mom
December 10: “Y’all did great.”-Esther Kim
December 11: “No matter where you set up the party, the people will converge around the food in the kitchen.” -Beth Robinson
December 12: “I am still unconfident about my abilities.” -Rick Goshen
December 13: “The greatest burden on a man’s shoulder is the coffin of his own child.” -RK; a youtube comment
December 14: “Growing up means choosing how you live your life.”
December 15: “Can I have the recipe?” -Christian’s mom
December 16: “I am super glad you are on this team, thank you for your contribution during that meeting” -Rachel Schneiderman
December 17: “The answer is yes, Jason.” -Matt Smith
December 18: “Life is long; your mind will change.” -Mimi Fu
December 19: “I think Zoe was expecting us to sing more.”
December 20: “I can’t be affected by someone else’s choice of what they want to say.” -Queenie
December 21: “Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.” -Richard Feynman
December 22: “It’s been a problem on every band I’ve played with.” -Rob Gorini
December 23: “When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.” -Edward Snowden
December 24: “I guarantee you my brother still remembers you. You were like the only person who ever talked to him.” -Miles Shin
December 25: “Youth is wasted on the young.” -Beth Atwood
December 26: “In your darkest night, look for the bright northern star. Its glow will guide you.” -Paul Hall
December 27: “You’re only allowed to sing four songs during intermission.” -Gary Tucker, PNB
December 28: “I owe you a shrimp chip bag.” -Cameron Ernotte
December 29: *crosses fingers* “please be infertile.” -Sarah Kim
December 30: “All y’all night owls are 12 minutes late ” -Patrick Daly
December 31: “It’s like the no-pee side of the pool.” -Brittany Daly