2008.
Well, well. 2008 was an interesting year for me. The first part of the year was definitely pretty shitty. After that, things started to get better.
In summary, I got two people out of my life that were causing a lot of emotional problems for me - Rob and Chris C. It's funny how shortly after all of that happened, I was coming to my shrink without really any big problems. Prior to that, it was always something about one of those two that was causing me a lot of issues. The biggest realization out of that was that Rob really just isn't a good person. Some people really don't deserve a second chance. Getting that out of my life was a big help to things.
What else occurred in 2008? Hmm, well I went to (and worked) my first convention ever - Magfest - which started my working with the Dorsai Irregulars to do security at conventions. Much thanks to scs_11 for causing me to have no vacation time left at work ;) But really, that's been a lot of fun. It's entertaining to tell people what I do on my vacations.. but I've met a lot of cool people doing it so far. More on Magfest and conventions later.
I also bought a house. That's coming along nicely, except for the fact that I still have a lot of crap to unpack. Clearly it's stuff I don't really need, but a lot of it is like stuffed animals and decorations and stuff. Hopefully I'll have a housewarming party in the future and things will be done by then. I've gotten almost all of the carpet in the house cleaned. Next year, there are some drywall pops I need to take care of and some rotten wood to be replaced outside. Aside from that, I need to caulk and seal the windows better.. they're an obvious source of cold air. The heating bill in this house is not fun, but, that's what I get for buying a big house..
I finally got my Sentinel All-Sky Camera installed and running in Lapeer, MI. I'm still tweaking it to this day.. that's the problem with only being up there a couple of times each year. It's recorded some nice Meteors so far (when its working properly). At some point I hope to have it automated more, because right now I have to VNC in and view the events.. a lot of false positives caused by clouds, insects, etc, and over a very slow cablemodem it's hard to process the events quickly.
I got into Geocaching which I enjoy quite a bit.. too bad it's so freakin cold out right now or I'd be doing it more.
I was asked to be (and honored to be, and was..) a groomsman in jk651's beautiful wedding.
I think those are the major things I can think of in 2008. I might be forgetting things, but, thats what sticks out in my head right now.
In summary, I got two people out of my life that were causing a lot of emotional problems for me - Rob and Chris C. It's funny how shortly after all of that happened, I was coming to my shrink without really any big problems. Prior to that, it was always something about one of those two that was causing me a lot of issues. The biggest realization out of that was that Rob really just isn't a good person. Some people really don't deserve a second chance. Getting that out of my life was a big help to things.
What else occurred in 2008? Hmm, well I went to (and worked) my first convention ever - Magfest - which started my working with the Dorsai Irregulars to do security at conventions. Much thanks to scs_11 for causing me to have no vacation time left at work ;) But really, that's been a lot of fun. It's entertaining to tell people what I do on my vacations.. but I've met a lot of cool people doing it so far. More on Magfest and conventions later.
I also bought a house. That's coming along nicely, except for the fact that I still have a lot of crap to unpack. Clearly it's stuff I don't really need, but a lot of it is like stuffed animals and decorations and stuff. Hopefully I'll have a housewarming party in the future and things will be done by then. I've gotten almost all of the carpet in the house cleaned. Next year, there are some drywall pops I need to take care of and some rotten wood to be replaced outside. Aside from that, I need to caulk and seal the windows better.. they're an obvious source of cold air. The heating bill in this house is not fun, but, that's what I get for buying a big house..
I finally got my Sentinel All-Sky Camera installed and running in Lapeer, MI. I'm still tweaking it to this day.. that's the problem with only being up there a couple of times each year. It's recorded some nice Meteors so far (when its working properly). At some point I hope to have it automated more, because right now I have to VNC in and view the events.. a lot of false positives caused by clouds, insects, etc, and over a very slow cablemodem it's hard to process the events quickly.
I got into Geocaching which I enjoy quite a bit.. too bad it's so freakin cold out right now or I'd be doing it more.
I was asked to be (and honored to be, and was..) a groomsman in jk651's beautiful wedding.
I think those are the major things I can think of in 2008. I might be forgetting things, but, thats what sticks out in my head right now.