I know I’ve been MIA for a while, but I’ve had quite a few weeks. My car was broken into at the gym, I had to cancel my Christmas vacation plans, and then I got sick with a massive sinus infection. Blarg. So now we can continue the scheduled craziness.

Actually, I’m done with 2008. I will say it had it’s moments, both good and bad, but you all know what happened and how everything went down, and how you responded to it. We’ve all made it through one more year together, and 2009 looms ahead as our next challenge. I will say that between the housing market, the bust of the 401(k)’s, and the extreme job loss, all of which I could have been affected by immensely, I came out relatively unscathed, because I wasn’t stupid about the way I chose to live. I feel fortunate about that. In fact, I did better in 2008 than I did in 2007. Good for me.

2009. Wow. 9 years into the new millennium, and I’m still not sure where the time went. It seems like just yesterday that I was spending the 1999-2000 new year in my friends basement having a lan party, bridging networks over the cable modem, playing Quake 2, and downloading at incredible 100k speeds through napster with cross-over cables because “what’s a router?”.

Time flies, I guess, and a lot of us have accomplished a lot of things in the time that has passed. I’m looking forward to 2009, which is going to propel me to the big 30 in 2010. It seems so close too, when I’ll be entering my “prime earning years”, and yet, I’ve already got a lot of things I wasn’t supposed to have for a few more years yet. I would like to be a bit better off, but I’m learning now how to do that.
I expect great things in 2009, because I’m going to make them happen. Good luck everyone.