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2004 was a year of high highs and low lows for me. Right now my life is in that extremely un-viscous stage. In some ways I like it. It allows me to change and not get too rooted into whatever I choose. I’m not sure exactly what exact direction I want to go, but I do have a general idea.

Things I Have Accomplished and/or Enjoyed In 2004

• The Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup. The only year that I end up going to a home game, during mid-season, is the year my hometown team wins the big cup. It was fun, exciting, and memorable.
• I visited Lake Tahoe this past spring. What a fantastic place, especially if you are an outdoors type person and/or like photography. I will venture to say it’s one of the most beautiful places in the contiguous US. Oh, and the food was superb as well. Next time I visit will be in the winter, hopefully.
• I got back into reading. I started with Cory Doctorow’s Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom and that was a great help to spark my interest in reading. It is also helpful to read to assist in improving writing skills. I hope that’s happening for me.
• My blog and portfolio sites were redesigned and I implemented CSS table-less markup, self taught, I might add.
• I learned to grasp the power of RSS and my time spent visiting bogs has been greatly reduced. I do miss seeing the design of the pages, though.
• I proved to myself that freeipods.com was not a scam and I’m currently enjoying the melodious sound.
• I was out of console gaming until just recently (thus my lack of posting) and I really like most of the games I have played so far. Paper Mario for the Gamecube is superbly done. It really has a unique story line, and, yes, I, Mario, rescued Princess Peach.

Things Look Forward To In 2005

• Obtain my B.F.A. in Graphic Design. Finally.
• Get a Powerbook G5. I really think it is going to happen at MWSF in January. I’ll have more on my reasoning next time.
• Improve my business skills.
• See Cars and buy The Incredibles on DVD.
• Write and post an article on Illustrator (vector) basics. It will happen, I promise.
• Take more photographs and post them on Flickr. I have a fantastic and extremely portable digital camera but I don’t take it with me unless I’m on vacation and that’s got to change.
• Decorate my new home office.
• And so much more.