I ended last year, hoping this one would be better with work, relationships, and in general.  I’m pretty sure looking back on it, other than work this last year was worse.  Relationships were crazy and overall not good for anyone.  In general it had some good things and a lot bad things.  I can say for sure it won’t be a year I’m likely to forget.

List of things that happen this year:

• Saw at least 16 movies in the theater.
• A very close family member passed away.
• Went to see Dave Anderson a bunch.
• Mog and I had  6 Holiday Parties in one day.
• Found out RedBox is great.
• Got two cakes made for my birthday!
• Had a couple crazy “things” with chicks.
• Found pictures of me from high school.
• One of the first to discover the re-birth of Soul Burger.
• Went to Israel for a week and NYC for a couple hours.
• Saw Marcy Playground twice in one year.
• Went to Hawaii for a week.
• Went to Wisconsin for a week over Christmas.
• Helped Makers Local 256 grow and seceded as a hackerspace.

In the end, I hope this year is better.  Lets hope relationships arn’t as crazy as last year, and that all around it gets better.

Cheers!

I took a little vacation over the holidays.  I headed up to the coldest place on earth….alright maybe it wasn’t the coldest place, but it sure felt like it.  I went up to Wisconsin to see my Dad and Step-mom as well as other people and family.

I headed out early on the 22nd and thankfully I made it there without any problems.  I didn’t have any canceled flights our anything like that.  After arriving in the frozen tundra the first thing Dad and I did was head to the cheese store.  Not to far from the airport is a place where they make fresh cheese.  We got a few bags of cheese curds and a couple blocks of cheese.  I looked at getting a cheese head hat, but decided against it, because of baggage space limitations.

Most of the time was spent just hanging out with family.  We went to see a movie, went out to eat a bunch.  You know the normal family stuff.

I did get to see the grave stone of Jessica.  I posted about her in a post called 10 years ago… It was nice to see the stone, she was a very good friend of mine, and I don’t think I have ever actually seen her stone.  The fist time I was there to see her grave site there was just a plaque.

Also got to hang out with a couple friends including @grinningsoul who I have never met in person but have talked to online for almost two years.  It was awesome to meet someone for the first time you have known and followed for a while.  <–That sounds very stoker like, thanks social networks.

All in all I had a great time….well except for the cold!

I went on a work trip to Hawaii in the middle of November.  We were on Kauai, which is very small and very old.  Not much to do there, but I guess I wasn’t there for vacation so what can I expect.  Here are some pictures from the island.

WARNING: Spoilers!

So I went to see this while I was up in WI.  It was kind of a family thing.  The grandparents, parents, and an aunt all went to see it.  The movie is your basic chick flick.  Guy and girl are on the outs, story progresses and guy and girl get back together.  The story around the chick flick part is about guy and girl getting sent to the middle of Montana to live.  Guess what?  They are city slickers!  Yep city slickers that don’t love each other, but find out they do in the end.

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I went to see Marcy Playground two times in 2009.  One of my all time favorite bands.  Here are some pictures from the July show.