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December 12, 2006 - POTD's are back!

I know, I suck at updating, but the site really isn't dead, I promise. I'll make it up to you with a whole bunch of new POTD's, starting way back on November 18th, all the way through today, and enough to finish out the year.

No promises, but this may be the beginning of some more site updates in the relatively-near future.

December 31, 2006 - Year in review

Looking back, you can see a time when I was much better about updating this. There were no multi-month lapses, no POTD's running out. So what happened? Meh, it's a combination of things. I got a job, so school stopped happening. In turn, that means that club meetings, classes, projects, and the general excitement and buzz that surrounds college (and yes, there is some buzz even in Ames) are no longer happening. Instead, I have work, which ... is insanely boring to talk about. Also, no one would really understand most of it, even fewer people would really care, and even then, I probably can't actually talk about it anyways! Oh yeah, and I moved eighteen hundred miles, which implies a new set of friends and more, all of which takes time to adjust to. In short, I simply have fewer interesting things to write about. And after I come home from work, where I sit in front of a monitor for eight, ten, twelve hours, the last thing I want to do is sit down and type up something, when that feels an awful lot like work itself. So, in short, you shouldn't expect much from the site; not that you ever should have in the first place. This may be the point where it has long since jumped the shark. I have no plans to get rid of it or anything, but ... yeah.

With that said, let's take a recap of some of the things that happened this year!

• I was the lucky recipient of several visitors! Among them were Kristi, Pete, James, Meredith, and Emily... Always a good time!
• I left Shadow out of his crate a couple times. Chalk that up to a "learning experience".
• I came to some revelations about myself. I still haven't worked my way completely through them, but I'm working on it.
• I had a(nother) mishap involving reverse gear. Another learning experience.
• There was a major shift at work. I was re-org'ed into another team, doing different things, under a different manager.
• Unrelated to that (at least mostly), I found myself in a general dissatisfaction with my job. I'm not sure why or how to fix it yet.
• I took trips to Colorado, Cayman, Florida, Florida again, Ames, and Chicago. Most of those were vacation, and they were all very, very good trips.
• Parts of America finally came to their collective senses and voted a change of power into our government. God knows it couldn't have gotten any worse, so maybe the new Congress will actually do some good things.
• Related to that, I discovered a very deep-seated apathy within myself. This was triggered by the extreme political polarization of absolutely everything, and the general media onslaught that pervades our daily lives.
• Seattle, and most of western Washington state, lost power for about four days in the week before Christmas. In some places it was as much as a week, though I was lucky and got my power back within 24 hours.