Happy New Year everyone! Before you go all wonky on me about the post time, let me say I used future post and didn’t write this instead of celebrating. We’re actually going super conservative this year because we’re trying to save money; a far cry from last year in London. We hope to do something small next year because I’ll (hopefully) have just graduated… but this year it’s fondue at home.
After reading Jeff’s post about his 2008 stats, I decided to do quick year in review. I switched my site usage tracking mid year so I don’t have that sort stuff to share (I think only Jeff and I only care about analytics anyway). Since I finally finished tagging all my posts with labels/categories, and had to read all the old posts to do so, I decided to summarize what’s happened over the year. I’m pretty sure there are posts for all this stuff if you missed something and really want to read more.
- I posted 103 times. That’s 1 every 3.5 days.
- We traveled to England, Japan, California and Hawaii.
- I crossed 5 things off my Life List.
- The Cowboys have broken my heart… twice.
- I had somewhere between 2 and 4 boss changes. I honestly lost count.
- I delved into the world of smartphones with a BlackBerry Pearl.
- I turned 30 and had a great time doing so.
- I took 2,550 pictures with my Nikon D70.
- My Living Healthy campaign continued and I got halfway to my goal of 20% mass reduction.
- I sold the Audi and got a new Subaru.
- I competed in my 82nd through 89th amateur car races.
- I served as a best man in two weddings… for the same couple.
- I completed 25% of the requirements for a Masters in IST.
- I developed somewhat of an obsession with Allagash beer.
- We welcomed a new niece to the family.
- We celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary.
Last night, I had Corsendonk’s Abbey Pale Ale and while I’d love to share my thoughts I don’t really remember a lot about it. I opened it after homemade fondue and two bottles of wine, so I didn’t really pay the requisite amount of attention necessary to facilitate a review. I do remember commenting about unusual amount of carbonation and lacing but other than that, I just remember drinking it and then it being gone. Oh well, I guess there are plenty of internet reviews to fill the gap. It seems to review fairly well, so I guess that means I liked it. What I do know is opening another bottle of Allagash White after this one was a mistake.