Looking back at 2006...
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So it wasn't a terribly eventful year, but looking back through my blog I've noted the following...
Not a lot to write home about, but sometimes normalcy is good. In this case, I'll take it.
Looking forward to 2007 and the continued interaction here...
So it wasn't a terribly eventful year, but looking back through my blog I've noted the following...
- Ian came back from his DisneyWorld internship the first week of January. He was so ready to be back, but there was the matter of the girlfriend he met down there. Helen's from New York state, so guess where Ian went for the summer? New York... And in a textbook case of revisionist history, Ian decided that Disney wasn't too bad after all, and he leaves tomorrow for a six month internship working in their HR department. Should be an interesting road trip...
- Cam's continuing with his quest for his high school diploma, and he hopes to find a job one of these days. :) He has a girlfriend too, so Sue is finally not the only female in the house most days.
- I spoke at Lotusphere 2006 with Julian, and that went very well. I also had the very special opportunity to speak at the Ireland User Group meeting in June. It was my first time overseas, and I loved it. So much so, in fact, that I'll do it again in May of 2007.
- I did plenty of writing, too... There's this blog (563 entries this year), the LotusUserGroup.org Developer Tips newsletter, and a local business publication that will run an article of mine early in 2007. They found me through my blog and through my Amazon reviews. You never know where your words will end up...
- And speaking of Amazon reviewing... I read 212 books this year cover to cover (so much for "read less, do more") which is a new high for me. The Amazon review total for the year was 303 books, putting me at a ranking of #97, 984 total reviews, 7721 positive review votes, 9285 total votes. I could say again that I'll read less and do more, but why promise the impossible???
- Work was more challenging than I usually experience. It wasn't the technical aspects, thankfully. It was just a lot of long hours doing technical writing that I wasn't terribly adept at. But in terms of my Notes/Domino projects, I'm still having a lot of fun... Nice to love what you do for a living.
- Vacations? Two of them... There was the Alaskan cruise that was timed just right for decompression from work. No expectations, no rush... just lots of rest. A couple weeks after that, we went down to DisneyWorld for a few days. And as always, we loved it.
- And in the "I'm getting old" department, I had my first significant surgery experience. Surgery for "bilateral inguinal hernia repair" put me on the shelf for awhile in September. Even though the doctor said full recovery would take six weeks, I thought for sure I'd be back in a couple of days. Yeah, right... It was a good three weeks before I was moving semi-normally, and it *was* about six weeks before all feel relatively normal again.
Not a lot to write home about, but sometimes normalcy is good. In this case, I'll take it.
Looking forward to 2007 and the continued interaction here...
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