To be honest, this may only last one blog, but I decided I'm going to try and keep up with this again. The last two years have been bad as far as blogging goes. Most of my writing powers have been utilised to keep up with my card trading site, which even that, I haven't nearly blogged enough to make a prominent blip in the search engines. Eh, oh well. Throw it into the new years resolutions bin. I think Twitter and Facebook sort of demolished my ability to sit down and write up a blog. Funny how communication keeps getting getting compressed. I'm waiting for Twitter to be preceded by another service that only allows their users to type 75 characters worth of thought. Sometimes it's all you need.

 

Winter usually takes a toll on my ol' morale, but this year I'm pretty pumped. I decided I'm going to kick the frack out of February and get some stuff done (Febuary is my arch-nemesis as far as months go). Sounds like we are going to have a few trips this month which include the Cities next week, to see friends and go to artsy shiz. The week after that is Schell's Bock Fest in New Ulm. I am totally pumped to check that out, looks like a blast.

 

In the last half year, I've started brewing beer at home. I've done two batches so far and will probably do another batch tonight. Beer is a ton of fun for me. I generally like to cook (maybe even love, on occasion) and beer making is basically cooking. Drinking it is always fun, too. :-) I'm still getting the basics of cooking it down, but eventually I'd love to start making my own recipes and the likes. Since I started brewing, local brewers have peaked my interest. I'm planning on visiting a few breweries this year to see their setups.

 

I'm still doing Tae Kwon Do. I received my second degree black belt in December. I passed on my first try, which I'm thankful for. It was a very rewarding test and now my name's embroidered on my belt, which is pretty fancy, if I do say so. The adult class as a bunch of fun people in it right now. Can't go wrong!

 

I think I'm mainly excited for the new decade in general. I can't wait to see what's going to happen, where we are going to go,

what new things I will experience, everything. I will turn 30 this decade. That feels a little weird. 

 

BTW, Peewee's Playhouse started up again. :-)

Hey, it's the sun, and it makes me shine.

Well folks, it's another year. 2008 came and went fast. I'm still trying to figure out where the time went. A few memorable moments are the following (in no real particular order):

1. Mine and Jacinda's first full year of marraige was celebrated January 6th, 2007.
2. I recieved my Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. Still going steady in that.
3. Gained 15lbs and don't feel too bad about it.
4. Acquired roughly thirty new board games. 
5. Launched my little side project, a collectable card trading website (Magic: The Gathering exclusively at the moment): http://www.ccgtradepost.com.
6. Celebrated my first year working at Famous Davis.

There are a few more less noteable things I have done this year that escapes me at the moment. It felt busy, for sure, just more along the lines of keeping up with existing projects. This is the first in four years where I hadn't really taken on huge obligations outside the norm (for instance, buying a house, switching jobs, getting married, etc). In those regards, it has been relaxing.

What's in store for 2009? I am hoping more board gaming. I still really enjoy that hobby. It seems a bit silly to look forward to. However, friends and family really seem to enjoy it and since I enjoy both friends and family, it only makes sense. I'm also hoping to expand the user base of my project, http://www.ccgtradepost.com. Among less nerdy things, I am looking forward to another year at Famous Davis and I hope to get tons done on our house (extreme home makeover style).

bzllbzlbzlbzlbzlblz more to come. The future is coming.