A year in review
Dec. 29th, 2005 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cryowizardI'm flying to London for a few days of, as cousin Avi said, "bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins".
I am going to get drunk, speak with an Irish accent to my good friends, and on New Year's Eve I am going to smoke a Cuban cigar courtesy of Clyde Navin Neill, a newborn son of one of my colleagues.
Since I am going to be busy doing all that, this is likely my last post for this year. I am therefore inclined to give it a bit of a short review.
On the minus side:
- Worked like crazy all year long, with no end in sight. Only took one week of vacation out of four (seven, really, with three weeks carryover)
- Realized I might be in a wrong business
- Canceled a three-week Thailand trip
- Messed up a few things that could have been something
- Been dark, gloomy, miserable and alone most of the year
- Wasted enormous amounts of time simply doing nothing at all
- Did not exercise anywhere near enough
On the plus side:
- Got promoted at work
- Got a great camera and took a few nice pictures
- Attended two photography seminars
- Did a 7-day hike in Olympic National Park, the most difficult hike I've done to date
- Visited my brother in San Diego, took a few good pictures there, fell in love with Southern California
- Started (and continue today) studying guitar playing more or less seriously
- Went to a Mark Knopfler concert. Wanted to do that for ages. Loved it.
- Made some in-roads into the fascinating world of music and musicians
- Made three new friends
So there it is. Personally, this year felt quite dark to me, with a few bright spots.
Hoping for the mostly bright year with a few dark spots :)
Happy New Year, everyone!
I am going to get drunk, speak with an Irish accent to my good friends, and on New Year's Eve I am going to smoke a Cuban cigar courtesy of Clyde Navin Neill, a newborn son of one of my colleagues.
Since I am going to be busy doing all that, this is likely my last post for this year. I am therefore inclined to give it a bit of a short review.
On the minus side:
- Worked like crazy all year long, with no end in sight. Only took one week of vacation out of four (seven, really, with three weeks carryover)
- Realized I might be in a wrong business
- Canceled a three-week Thailand trip
- Messed up a few things that could have been something
- Been dark, gloomy, miserable and alone most of the year
- Wasted enormous amounts of time simply doing nothing at all
- Did not exercise anywhere near enough
On the plus side:
- Got promoted at work
- Got a great camera and took a few nice pictures
- Attended two photography seminars
- Did a 7-day hike in Olympic National Park, the most difficult hike I've done to date
- Visited my brother in San Diego, took a few good pictures there, fell in love with Southern California
- Started (and continue today) studying guitar playing more or less seriously
- Went to a Mark Knopfler concert. Wanted to do that for ages. Loved it.
- Made some in-roads into the fascinating world of music and musicians
- Made three new friends
So there it is. Personally, this year felt quite dark to me, with a few bright spots.
Hoping for the mostly bright year with a few dark spots :)
Happy New Year, everyone!
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Date: 2005-12-29 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-30 05:16 am (UTC)I'm glad I was part of this.
Wish we can do it more often. I voobsche hotelos' by pobol'she obschat'sya s toboi v novom godu.
Udachnoi tebe poezdki v London and Happy New Year!
-LT
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Date: 2006-01-02 06:00 pm (UTC)Благодарю, Лёньчик. Отдельное тебе лично спасибо за, так сказать, поднятие планки -- мы, оказывается, и так можем тоже.
Elwha's got nothing on this ;)
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Date: 2006-01-02 06:02 pm (UTC)Твоим бы...ну, ты понял... ;)