2008 was a very weird year for me. It has the highs and lows that were both a little more extreme than usual. But I’m still around with a roof and an amazing wife, so it’s not like anything can be all that bad.
I’ll have to label the year as my year of hope. Some of that is because of the obvious reason of presidential politics, but I had a lot of other hope building itself up. What happens to that hope in ’09 is a big question mark. Let’s just say that I’m ending the year with a heaping lump of pessimism for many reasons.
With that whole 20/20 hindsight thing, I would have done things differently. But that’s moot. I’ll just say that I certainly learned a lot over the past year that should prove to be handy information in the future.
I didn’t see as many movies as usual, or get into as much new music as usual. I think it’s because I put fourth a lot of my spare attention to other things.
Highlights of the year for me… Mom and Wayne tying the knot in Maine. Moving. Short trips to Cincinnati and Chicago. Starting my own business venture. The Foo Birthday. Learning HDR photography. That’s about all that comes to mind immediately.
I hope anyone and everyone had as good year as possible. Cheers.