A Few Personal Highlights of 2009
As I ponder the year, and how fast it sped by, here is a short sampling (there are a lot of things left out) of what stood out during the year… You can checkout Samantha’s year end recap as well as Jessica’s. If you have your own year end recap, please post a link in the comments!
These are organized by category, not by chronology… Warning, there are a LOT of photos!
- Travel
- New Year celebration in Colorado Springs (at the beginning of this year) with family
and the renaissance fair in Colorado that summer - Christmas and New Year’s (tonight) in Hawaii
- New Year celebration in Colorado Springs (at the beginning of this year) with family
- Weddings
- Jes and Neil‘s Wedding in Columbia
Lovely Samantha, me, and the beautiful bride - Kevin and Shannon‘s Wedding in Key West
The groomsman, groom, best man
- Jes and Neil‘s Wedding in Columbia
- Misc Festivities
- Going to John’s lake party
- Kayaking trip
- Halloween with good friends in Springfield
Being trekkies for Halloween - Kevin’s bachelor party
- Other get togethers throughout the year
- Getting reacquainted with friends
- Going to John’s lake party
- Birthdays:
- Samantha’s surprise birthday party in Springfield MO
- 29th birthday in Colorado at the cabin
The cabin in Burrows Park
- Amy’s birthday party in Springfield, and the festivities downtown afterward…
- Computers:
- Sony VAIO VGN-Z520 13.3″ notebook – an amazingly compact notebook
- Dell M4400 – reasonably priced powerhouse of a machine!
- Cameras
- Olympus E-P1
- Panasonic TS-1
- Olympus E-P1
- Gadgets
- iPod touch 64GB
- Sony PRS-505 reader
- Household
- Upgrading the batteries in our off the grid electrical system.
- Installing some new solar panels
- Remodeling the house
- Samantha did the drywall, painting and trim
- I did the electrical re-wiring and helped Samantha
- We had the flooring installed professionally
- Work
- NetRender continuing to do well
- Weblogs.us doing just fine despite the recession
- Misc
- Selling (on eBay) a wide variety of items I wasn’t using using
- Starting P90X workout program and liking the results
- Random things I enjoyed:
- Picnics
- Time with family
- Visiting friends
- Watching the fire in the stove at home
- Seeing Samantha hone her photographic skills, it’s been awesome seeing her take such awesome photos!
- Mexican Villa, I never tire of it…
Whew, it’s been a busy year! Here’s wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year!
PS If you have your own year end recap, please post a link in the comments :-).