On my 2008

(I still have a bunch of “wrapping up 2007” posts sitting in my to-be-written queue. Er. The world still needs to know the story of Losing My Heart To A Starship Trooper: The RPG!)
Bye bye 2008. You were a good year. A hard year, but good.
I handed in a thesis for a Master of Science, which dominated things somewhat; I spent most of the year shedding responsibilities and activities to create space in which to work. It was, in fact, bloody hard work, more than I had expected. But the good news is, it was tremendously educational. I learned more than expected in exact proportion to how much I worked harded than expected. It was a really good experience. And handing in ten years after I completed previous significant chunk of uni work was also a nice touch.
So that was the “hard” bit; for the “good” bit, I started last year by proposing to my Caroline. This happened in the first minutes after midnight on new year’s day but we kept the news under our hats for almost a week. It has been marvellous to be engaged, I highly recommend it. I understand that what comes next is also rather good. Anyway, we’re being civilly united in three weeks, so if you want to see me in a kilt and Cal in a dress, drop me an email soon.
Those were the two big forces in my year. There was much else of interest, but nothing on the scale of those two. In my online life, well, this blog reached its fifth anniversary, and I thoroughly enjoyed sharing abundant Friday linky to clear my bookmarks each week. More significantly, with much good help I started a campaign that got a lot of people writing letters and may possibly have had some impact on government decision-making. And I joined HoffSpace, the social networking system for David Hasslehoff. I have non-bot HoffFriends!
Finally: turns out this didn’t make it to the Dr Horrible video selection, but you can still catch my cameo in Jon’s excellent Evil League of Evil application, the Embezzler. See it, and also the sweet Baby Hurricane application, here.
Laters, 2008.