Strange Pants - article - Living in Fiji - 2006: The year that was

Was reading Zeldman’s review of his year and realised I should write mine up before I lose it completely in the haze that is my memory.

• Got engaged to the love of my life and girlfriend of 4 years
• bought our first car, a Toyota Duet
• visited Papua New Guinea on business (also a first)
• started this ill-tended blog
• Celebrated holding down one job for 4 years
• ... and then promptly left for a new one
• went to Microsoft TechEd in Sydney
• reached MCAD
• upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 and MS SQL Server 2005 (Love SQL2K5, think VS 2005 is a bit of a resource hog)
• Survived yet another Fiji coup (It’s actually not over as I write, so perhaps I haven’t survived it yet … but I survived all 3 previous coups, so I have a good track record.)
• chopped off my goatee and replaced it with ye-old-style mutton chops (This is an experiment, the fiancée may yet veto the whole thing.)

I’m sure I’ve forgotten things … I’ll add them as they come to mind.

In the mean time it’s your turn; what was your year like?

Filed by Jachin Sheehy under Living-in-Fiji