Goodbye 2005, you were a great year!
Lewis Black has a routine where he scoffs at the optimism of each new year filled with thoughts of “this is going to be the year!” asking where the poor soul is sobbing in the corner mourning the ending year saying things like “NO!, no! *this* was the year, it can’t be over already!”
While I am looking forward to the things to come in 2006, 2005 has been an amazing year. 2006 has some big shoes to fill. In 2005 I celebrated my tenth anniversary with Ray (the best meal I ever had EVER was our anniversary dinner), celebrated my 30th birthday, and made many new friends. I also finally got treatment for ADD which enabled me to get my life back in order.
Professionally, I have gotten the job I have really wanted, and have been very fortunate in my personal Flash development, winning a TV, and getting to travel to Asia and speak at several conferences. I know nothing is more obnoxious than people gushing about their success so I’ll stop now, but 2005 pretty much started off with a bang and kept going.
And the icing on the cake is that I actually started a new blog and kept blogging. Thanks for reading it!
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December 30th, 2005 at 11:31 pm
Yeah, I gotta admit, I’m sorry to see 2005 go as well. Granted, there were a lot of things wrong with the year, but somehow I managed to get through it fairly well. New job (same company), a few successful projects, heck I even won a few things.
Huh, maybe I should continue this on my own blog.
So, congrats Justin, I think you just started your first meme.
January 4th, 2006 at 8:38 am
Justin: I remember when you were working about 3 jobs simultaneously. Teaching School, writing a book and holding down a full time flash design job. Ever notice how hard some folks work only to get lucky. This ain’t the lottery its life. You deserve to be lucky, you earned it.
January 4th, 2006 at 10:27 am
Whoo! Congrats! No one deserves it more
January 4th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
2005 *was* a great year, for web development and design, for flash, for openness, for apis, for startups and excitment in the industry, and like you, for personal travel.
So long, 2005.