One score and no years ago...
20 years ago, (1985), I...
1. Finished my first year of high school at Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor.
2. Lived in Tacoma and commuted to school with my older sister in her old yellow GLC.
2. Regularly played a lunch-time AD&D game with Kate (Emblen now Webb), David Cooper, and Jonathan Smith.
10 years ago, (1995), I...
1. Got my first real job at the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General's Office in Seattle, then...
2. Met kathrynt.
3. Was regularly playing in both the Facade LARP in Olympia and a round-robin tabletop Werewolf game with cyberduck, Scott, Cherissa, Erica, and sometimes Scooter and Rob.
5 years ago, (2000), I...
1. Lived with kathrynt in our current house in Bothell.
2. Converted to a blue badge (FTE) position at Microsoft as a UA release manager for SharePoint Portal Server 2001, after a year of working as a contract editor and two years as a contract software tester.
3. Started planning my 3rd edition D&D game that began the next January with chipmunck, melkoriii, Chad, Scott, and Mark.
3 years ago, (2002), I...
1. Marked my fifth year living in the same house, a first for me.
2. Was working as a full-time technical writer for SPS 2003.
3. Spent a week in the Utah canyonlands with kathrynt, Scott, and Mark.
1 year ago, (2004), I...
1. Celebrated my first wedding anniversary.
2. Went an entire year without playing in a role-playing game, but did play some low-stakes poker.
3. Marked my first year of teaching myself how to sort-of play the guitar.
So far this year, I haven't done much (it's still only like January or something, right?) but I:
1. Constantly mourned the death of American democracy.
2. Frequently wished for a more interesting job, more time and money for vacations, and more time with long-time friends and abandoned pastimes.
3. Commuted to work by bicycle for the first time.
Yesterday, I...
1. Stumbled around all day after pulling myself out of bed at 9:30 after only 6 hours sleep after attending a Passover Seder hosted by spygirle that went until 2 AM.
2. Finished reading "A Fire Upon the Deep" and then spent some time weeding in the sun in our backyard.
3. Had the pleasure of showing the old animated (and deeply cheesetastic) Rankin-Bass version of "The Return of the King" to kathrynt, which we both mocked mercilessly in MST3K fashion.
Today, I...
1. Stumbled into work, still tired from lack of sleep over the weekend, and poured myself the livegiving elixir that is free Microsoft-provided (and apparently, flavored) coffee. Mmmm Microsoft-flavored coffee mmmmm yuck blech.
2. Checked my work e-mail to refresh my memory about work tasks to procastinate about.
3. Caught up with LiveJournal postings.
Tomorrow, I will...
1. Commute into work by bicycle again.
2. Spend another day doing as little work as possible, because that's my current level of motivation.
3. Watch the new episode of "The Amazing Race," which is my current guilty pleasure. ETA: or maybe not. Kathryn's got a chorus rehearsal, so we'll probably hold off watching this until later. So our second anniversary celebration will be put off until Friday.
In the next year, I will...
1. Get another year closer to death.
2. Plan and fail to start much less finish all sorts of projects or lifestyle changes.
3. At least have my health, mostly.
Hmmm, I should get better goals for the rest of the year.