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.