In 2006, I:
- sold my house in Seattle and moved in with Susan in Oakland;
- went to my first geek convention;
- went on a fantastic vacation in Turkey;
- was sick for a month;
- joined an orchestra as a cellist, then watched it slowly collapse;
- finally found people to play chamber music with, and learned two entire piano trios;
- didn’t climb a single rock;
- took golf lessons – and avoided cruel punishment for it;
- went home to Vancouver once and ate enough dim sum for a year;
- reconnected with friends I hadn’t seen for a combined total of twenty four years;
- read
fourfive of Patrick O’Brian Aubrey-Maturin seagoing novels – only sixteen more to go; - went to three college football games and one NHL game;
- saw ten movies in theatres, watched too much reality television;
- bought my first new car, sold my old one on eBay;
- temporarily betrayed my main toy squeeze and bought way too many Transformers;
- started allergy shots – and had anaphylaxis three times as a result of a shot;
- got a dog;
- saw another Pixar movie released;
- somehow got my name on another published paper;
- got a patent with my name on it granted;
- learned too much about assembly, multithreading, and in general worked too hard;
- went to two American states I’ve never been to before;
- wrote 7980 words in 23 blog entries (not including this one).
So much for 2006. Bring on 2007!
