Jan 02, 2010 06:41
- I started flossing
- I stopped folding socks and underwear
- I switched from shaving with disposable blades to an electric razor
- I ate a lot of fruits and vegetables, including many I'd never tried before
- I walked about 1.5 miles every morning, most mornings, for about seven months
- I lost about forty pounds (from 235 to 195)
- I drank three cups of coffee (total, not per day)
- I got stitches for the first time (in my left thumb)
- I gave myself a permanent scar (on my right shin)
- I continued the joyfully maddening work of raising two wonderful children
- I supported my wife through a cancer scare (though fortunately, not cancer itself)
- I visited Disney World for the first time, with my wife and son
- I learned the plusses and minuses of being a morning person
- I bought and started using a cell phone
- I read twenty three books I've never read before
- I started using a hipster PDA to organize my thoughts
- I reduced distractions and became a more effective worker
- I finished a work project in six weeks that I was told another team failed to complete in six months
- I finished another work project that a customer later described as "the best thing since sliced bread"
- I wrote a remote monitoring app that keeps track of several hundred production services and web pages
- I learned and used the Yahoo UI toolkit on several projects
- I did my first Ruby On Rails development work (though not a new project of my own)
- I performed with Zero Times Infinity for the first time in years, in NYC
- I produced a remix for Deftly-D of which I am also very proud
- I wrote five new Ukuphambana tracks, the best work I've done to date
