My blog is pretty public, but here's a post that's more for me than it is for you. I figured I should start cataloging a list of highlights from my 2009 for when I want to reminisce in 10 years, and I'd rather do it here, where I have more control of my data, than some place like Facebook that may be totally obsolete in half that time. Most of the links here are to posts I made throughout the year.
January
- Really started using Twitter
- Moved into a college dorm for the first time, in my last semester
- Started working for YSN
- Experienced Lucky Strike for the first time
April
- Wrote a 40 page paper for college. Somehow, I passed.
- Started experimenting with Posterous
May
- Stopped by the World Trade Center site. Looked much the same as it has when I was there in 2005.
- Somehow managed to graduate college with a BA in communication
- Quit Wordpress and started using Posterous fulltime
June
- Got a personalized license plate that exemplified my nerdiness
- Camped out to be one of the first to own the Palm Pre. I returned it a week later and got an iPhone.
- Enjoyed working from home
- Officially gave up control of my self-hosted email and started using Gmail and a single identity for everything
July
- Road tripped to Arizona and New Mexico
- Got a year older
- Flew to Kansas and rented my first car
- Flew from Kansas to Illinois, rented my second car, and drove through Indiana
- Became an official employee of Local.com, after consulting since May 2008
August
- Dave and Steph got married!!
- Took a whirlwind trip around the southwest, taking pictures hourly
- Started doing contract work for Posterous
- Fell in love with Zune
- Thought about trading in my car for this
September
- Got a screenshot of my blog published all over the internet
- Started a Posterous resource site where I started posting Posterous themes that Travis and I made
October
- Toured Google's campus in Mountain View, thanks to my uncle who works there
- Tried to use my cell phone less and an email and sms-only device more. Failed.
- Upgraded to Windows 7
- Bought a Slingbox HD to watch the Angels postseason run
November
- Admitted to playing a single iPhone game over 80 hours in less than 6 months
- Bought the Droid Eris the day it came out and returned it the next day (for a Blackberry Tour, which I still have, surprisingly)
- Set up a magnificent 4-monitor display for my home office. I have since cut back to 3 horizontal screens.
- Bought a TV for the office, just so Travis and I could watch Arrested Development while we worked
December
- Started getting hooked on line dancing. Even went out and bought boots and a cowboy hat!
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Found out I am (currently) highly ranked in Google for the following search terms. Yes, I have made my mark on the world.
- 4th 2nd result for Starbucks refill policy
- 6th result for Droid Eris lag
- 9th result for Newport Lexus (previously 5th for this post)
- 4th result for Aylor Insurance, my car insurance company that I had a beef with