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 four five 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!