Let’s see. What happened this year? Quite a bit actually.
According to my 2008 annual report from Dopplr, I traveled 189,838 km (52% of the distance to the moon) to achieve an average “personal velocity” of 21.8 km/hr over the year. And that doesn’t count my Nike Training Log totals for 133 runs (572 mi over 81 hrs 31 min). I spent many, many hours coaching soccer, playing soccer, watching soccer or talking about soccer, but I still love it. I shut down my business and opened up a new career chapter. Bought a house, sold a house, then refinanced a house. Hosted a family reunion for 13 and a Thanksgiving dinner for 13. Crested 500 business connections in LinkedIn and 170 friends in Facebook. Watched my investment portfolio crater, then shifted gears to take advantage of the market opportunity. Grew my MP3 collection to more than 4,300 tracks (with many, many more CDs yet to rip) and converted 722 35mm slides to digital images. I shoveled, mowed, mulched, weed whacked and leaf blowed a whole bunch. Posted a rather lame 27 times on this blog. Gotta do better than every other week in 2009, but not exactly off to a blazing start, am I? I did fire up rockymtnfuller.com, so that has to count for something.
Anyway, a busy year with another on the way.
Now, I leave you with this: JibJab’s usual irreverent compilation of recent events encapsulated in their short film entitled What a @#$% Year! 2008.
