2006

A quick summary of 2006 for me.

The good stuff:

• Travel! – Work sent me to Prague and Berlin on an incentive trip, then to Chicago and and a nowhere town (Dayton) in Ohio for some training afterwards.
• Met the wonderful Lori, who then visited me for a week, and stayed for three months
• Cons! – Conjure, Supanova, Conflux 3 and LACon IV
• Meeting others from Shadowmarch and Tad himself
• More travel! – Anaheim for LACon, followed by a couple of relaxing days in the San Francisco Bay area, then on to Canada with Lori
• Had a fairly productive, rather satisfying year at work – managed to instigate and see through some fairly significant changes to our development environment that have already paid off. (And most importantly, managed to ditch the horrible StarTeam in favour of Subversion and Jira). Also got to spend more time working in C rather than Java. Java’s not a bad language, but C is more fun.

The bad:

• Conflux 3 – definitely some of my worst moments of the year were Conflux related. I really wish that after all the pain we went through I’d actually managed to see some of the Con. Locking myself out of the house during it didn’t help either.
• Money. 2006 was a financial disaster for me – ended up at least $5k further in debt by the end of it than I started. I guess traveling will do that.
• Didn’t get much music done this year, Cumulo-Nimbus seems to have pretty much stopped, and I didn’t even really do any of my personal stuff.
• Lori lives in Canada.

All in all, I’d say it was a pretty good year – definitely one of my better ones. Not my best by a long way, but the good far outweighs the bad, and it was much better than any of the last three. 2007 looks like it should continue the trend.

Now what did I do on New Year’s eve?

I played Neverwinter Nights with Caitlin!