Due to the nature of the year, this will be a short list.
I released a new verson of tramper.co.nz which was about 5 months in the making.
I bought a new suit, but regretted it afterward due to the condescending nature of the salesperson.
I took up ceroc classes but then the rest of life got in the way.
I purchased a house in New Brighton, by the sea, in the tsunami zone, and imminent threat from rising sea levels. The garden has had a gang of starlings, a family of fantails, grey warblers, a hedgehog, a visiting chicken, and even a rabbit.
I went to Waiheke Island, mountain biked the Queen Charlotte Track, and cut a campsite out of deep spring snow at dusk in Lewis Pass.
I struggled to keep a group of developers in work through a challenging economic time.
I read Frank Wilczek's Fantastic Realities and gained an appreciation of where mass comes from along with some insights into the extreme strangeness of the quantum world — including concepts such as asymptotic freedom, virtual particles, screening and anti-screening, nonabelian gauge theories. My enthusiastic attempts to share these ideas have been met with scepticism.
My father died suddenly. I spoke at his funeral and it was easy. I came to better understand the nature of loss and the permanence of sadness. My world is poorer. The remainder of the year collapsed in rubble.
I shared all this with Caren, and we survived.