2007 - Year's End

Year's end,
all corners
of this floating world, swept.
-- Basho All in all, it's been a good year.

Treasures

• Four cats. Soft fur.
• Richard; my best friend.
• I have a job that, most of the time, I like.
• I have Co-workers I like.
• The SF Bay Area — a good place to live.
• Plenty of books.
• We have our health.
• Rich has a job.
• Madeline Isabella Carranza

A Look Back...

I discovered MagNICI stuffed toys Rich's niece had a baby girl. I love the smell of chocolate in the air at the train station in the morning. "Enya no es humana, es de la raza de los elfos" There was major sewer construction on our street. Our favorite SF parking lot was co-opted as a basketball court and exercise yard. I moved to a nice cubicle at the Job. We did some cleanup, practicing Discardia, donating to Freecycle, taking old computer junk to Weird Stuff. I went through my drawers and closets today and culled out a lot of clothes that I don't (or can't) wear. I filled a dozen grocery bags to donate. Then I rearranged drawers and cupboards. Rich had hernia surgery. We got a new flat-panel LCD television, great for watching DVDs. We hooked the Mac mini up to it. BIG screen. We had a team offsite at work - lunch and bowling. I got one strike. Rich bought an Intel MacBook. We had out-of-town visitors. A friend of Rich's from Maryland came here to give a presentation. Rich's brother came to take a class. Rich's brother came back (with Rich's sister-in-law) on a vacation trip. We went visiting out of town ourselves. Rich and I took a day trip to Cambria; we saw pelicans, seals, otters and had lunch with friends and family. Rich took a trip to Colorado. We enjoyed the fireworks at Stanford I got a new manager at the Job; we get along well.		I held a bird! I've been chatting with my sister over IM. I've been using Twitter. I got my sister using Twitter. I bought a digital photoframe and loaded photos of the cats so I can have them at the Job. The city finally repaved a major street through town. Rich ended his contract and started another job. We went to a Leopards, Etc. "show" We went to the Millbrae Art Fair I learned to make "fried cheese" (sort of almost like Saganaki) I was asked to help create a set of TWiki pages for a CTO search and interviews. Rich started taking the train. We ride together for his part of the trip. Mac OS X Leopard shipped There are mousies at the Mountain View CalTrain stattion. We found a local pizza place we like. I improved our home TWiki site. Snibbles launched. We attended the TWiki User Meet-up — my presentation was well received! My Pleo arrived. I took him to work. My sister ran a marathon. Our XO laptop arrived. I got to try networking with another XO. It's been one year running on our Mac mini server — upgrading to Mac OS X was a good idea.
A quiet week working at home, bracketed by two long weekends.

2007 - Year's End ( in category Retrospectoscope ) - posted at Mon, 31 Dec, 19:34 Pacific | «e»