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Wow. What a year.
Lots of people have had a bad year, and I do not wish to denigrate them, but for me it has been pretty awesome.
The whole ongoing NZ adventure is of course my number 1 on the list. I mean, emigrating on my birthday, and the day of my hobbity coming-of-age at that. NZ has been hard at times, but we survived the winter and are now focussed on properly establishing our new house.
Another highlight of the year was running the tech for Eastercon. This is not something I think I'll be doing again for the foreseeable due to the small matter of living on the other side of the world, but it was a blast - despite the occasional frustrations.
A low light of the year has been time. I have been acutely aware of not having as much time as I'd like to do the things I want to do - but it's more complicated than that. Thinking back there is a fair amount of time, but I am often too tired, and perhaps insufficiently motivated, to take advantage of it. Perhaps I've been trying to juggle too many balls; new job, recreational coding project, secret smithereens project, converting my PPL, not to mention all the general life and house things, and fighting off the continual stream of colds that I have no immunity to (not helped by the rental house being Cold and Mouldy, but this is at least in hand).
What's in store for 2012? Well, setting up the new house seems likely to consume most of January and beyond, and I need to finish off my PPL conversion before April if I want to avoid having to send another cheque to the UK CAA. We should hear back about our residence visas before too long. We have no particular travel plans at present.
Speaking of travel, a curious statistic: I counted up the journeys I made in the year (work, NZ, various other things from my calendar - not counting unscheduled stuff like shopping as I have no handy records) and it turns out that my average speed across the whole year was within a whisker of 5mph.
Lots of people have had a bad year, and I do not wish to denigrate them, but for me it has been pretty awesome.
The whole ongoing NZ adventure is of course my number 1 on the list. I mean, emigrating on my birthday, and the day of my hobbity coming-of-age at that. NZ has been hard at times, but we survived the winter and are now focussed on properly establishing our new house.
Another highlight of the year was running the tech for Eastercon. This is not something I think I'll be doing again for the foreseeable due to the small matter of living on the other side of the world, but it was a blast - despite the occasional frustrations.
A low light of the year has been time. I have been acutely aware of not having as much time as I'd like to do the things I want to do - but it's more complicated than that. Thinking back there is a fair amount of time, but I am often too tired, and perhaps insufficiently motivated, to take advantage of it. Perhaps I've been trying to juggle too many balls; new job, recreational coding project, secret smithereens project, converting my PPL, not to mention all the general life and house things, and fighting off the continual stream of colds that I have no immunity to (not helped by the rental house being Cold and Mouldy, but this is at least in hand).
What's in store for 2012? Well, setting up the new house seems likely to consume most of January and beyond, and I need to finish off my PPL conversion before April if I want to avoid having to send another cheque to the UK CAA. We should hear back about our residence visas before too long. We have no particular travel plans at present.
Speaking of travel, a curious statistic: I counted up the journeys I made in the year (work, NZ, various other things from my calendar - not counting unscheduled stuff like shopping as I have no handy records) and it turns out that my average speed across the whole year was within a whisker of 5mph.
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