(oh, here it is)
But, nonetheless, let's have a stroll down 2012 Lane.
January
- Dean and I start building forts this year in the front yard.
- We built in the backyard the previous year, but not the front.
- Joined the Nexus Club
- took me a while to get the device, but I was now a Nexus and true stock Android user. Shortly thereafter it was rooted and I was on CM9
- I start my build of databases
- I'm really thinking I'm OCD as I'm making databases tracking phone availability, device updates, etc...
- Dean got really 'oddly' sick
- This was weird. He got sick, and then his limbs went numb and wouldn't work. Scared the crap out of us.
- Cairns workshop
- Again, getting a chance to be at a workshop put on by John, it was an awesome experience. Rudimentary on my part, but still, affirming. I think John really has his stuff together when it comes to teaching, and I'd really like to be able to sit down with him and learn some more (if only I could afford it).
- Carrier satisfaction survey
- this was something I thought would be really good... definitely something I'd do again - I surveyed over 1,000 smartphone users and asked them how happy they were with their carrier. There's so many other things I could have asked in conjunction, but I was just doing it as a test more or less.
- Online Competition
- Yay, something to get me 'competitive', unfortunate it didn't have quite the results I was hoping to (I ended up just slapping some things together last minute)
- Al's passing
- I won't even go into this. This was so... painful. I had my ruminescence a few weeks after he passed, and even reading that is hard.
- I miss you Al.
- Start of biking (April 5th)
- gotta start some time!
- Dad diagnosed
- This was rough. Especially after Al's passing and he had leukemia. He's still fighting, but we don't know where it's all at yet.
- He's had a real rough go with the anti-nauseants, and dosages that he's turned out to be allergic to. Cancer's not easy, but it's not meant to be that tough I think.
- Flooding
- huge flooding in Thunder Bay... many basements ruined
- Started planning for CD
- gotta celebrate 100 years by doing something we've never done before
- plus we got a great deal with Dining Room Studios - a real professional gig
- I headwrite for AiC
- Tom steps down to deal with his family and move, so I try my hand at being the lead guy... it lasts for about a month
- I'm a coach?
- Yup, I coached Dean's little teeball team. That was amazingly awesome. Hyperbolic... yes! Bloody adorable, absolutely. Looking forward to it next year.
- Canadian Celtic Celebration
- Pierre is truly a stand up guy, I'd support him in anything he's doing. We had 4 students this year, more than last.
- CD Recording
- And the marathon session begins. 3-4 hours a day, for about 5 weeks (or more) of playing. Wow. Besides a great product to sell, I ended up getting some severe tendinitis in my arm, and Rory now thinks he has tinnitis in his ear.
- Canada day run
- Mandy wanted to support Kelly in her run around Kakabeka Falls... so we walked out. Yup... ouch.
- I'm off the supply list
- Didn't hit my 5 days / year... didn't the previous year, but nobody said anything. This year I got served notice.
- Camping
- An excellent experience with a brand new tent. 6 days was a tad long, as Dean still has some issues 'at camp'. But I'd do it all again. Can't wait for this year.
- Grand Marais trip
- A nice little jaunt down to Grand Marais to kill a day off with the family.
- 8th Anniversary trip
- an impromptu trip to Toronto to the Revolving Restaurant. Awesome stuff, and couldn't ask for a better wife to spend it with. Love you hon!
- How will I top it next year?
- Band turns 100
- Words cannot express how emotional I was to play for this event. It was an amazing time. I hope we can recover from it.
- The cairn is an amazing memorial, and I'll be forever proud of it. (plus it's now a portal for ingress)
- First Rider
- Dean's ready for school now... are we?
- back on the supply list
- that's weird - I made one email comment and somehow back on the list.
- Dean in school
- d'aww... and in no time has 4 girlfriends!
- CD work (cover art)\
- nicely done if I do say so myself
- AndroidTO
- oooh, went to my first sorta nerd convention... awesome time!
- Switch to Bell
- 'bout time!
- Playing for Rodney's concert
- That was fun... I'm on a CD now!
- New Car
- and the Aztek gets relegated to the back lane now!
- Plans hatched for AC
- Our slow departure from AiC means that a few friends and I start our own blog
- www.androidcoliseum.com
- Start of the Friday Night Hangouts
- Kind of our own version of a vlog/vodcast
- Movember
- Yup, I did it... it wasn't great, but I raised almost $200 this year.
- Ingress
- mix tamogatchi and foursquare and you have my new little addiction game... didn't hinder it's desirability by the fact it's invite only
- Nexus 4
- My next nexus arrives and I'm on the latest updates again!
That's about it in a nutshell... I'm too lazy to link to each of the articles that are in here... so I'll leave that for you as a bit of a fun game.
In 2013... what does it hold for me? Hopefully more of the same awesome-ness.
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