Another year down

December 22, 2009

A couple of days late, but I still manage to do a quick birthday update. So, 2009. A pretty big year.

Getting engaged while travelling through Europe for a month, that’s got to be the highlight. Still can’t believe how beautiful Tuscany is, not too mention my fiancee. I can honestly say that this is a paragraph I did not think I would be writing. It’s amazing how things change.

Beautiful Tuscany

Changed jobs and, in doing so, dodged redundancy by a matter of days. It’s been good to start from the bottom again, plenty of new stuff to learn which is what keeps me going but it’s also hard work just keeping things moving when everything is quite new. It’s going to be a different workplace next year, with a lot of challenges to contend with.

Lots of new interesting toys to play with this year too: continuing to find great ways to use the iPhone, Windows 7 through the betas and release candidates, Google Chrome OS. Played plenty of GTA IV, Dragon Age, Team Fortress 2, New Mario Wii, X3 and now Eve Online.

It’s funny looking back at this same post just one year ago, wondering where I was heading in 2009. Relationships, work, all that stuff has worked out perfectly. One lucky year, I guess. And still haven’t had a smoke for two years – feeling much, much better for it. It’s great to be able to look back over the birthday posts from this blog for the last five years, things have decidedly been improving all the way along. Plenty coming up in the next twelve months too – engagement party in January, wedding to plan for 2011, work travel throughout the year (including Singapore and New Zealand), the new job to keep improving at, turning 30 (!) plus any number of surprises that are sure to appear.

All in all, I’m looking forward to it.

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