2011 turned out to be a pretty good year — despite all the natural and financial disasters in the world. The revolutions were pretty cool. Also Fidel Castro survived another year.
* A year ago we were five months pregnant and camping in Hawaii with two kids (10 and 2). It was a lot of fun, in retrospect.
* At the SF Erlang Factory I convinced Joe Armstrong to try Rdio (http://www.rdio.com/people/erlang).
* Then we got about a third of the first floor of our house finished, in order to start a co-op preschool there.
* Then I fulfilled a major dream: installed an oval pot rack.
* Then Dmitri Gorchev died. (Correction: he died in 2010)
* Toured the new Bay Bridge with Manish.
* Then we had a baby! Daria:
* We got most of the living room painted.
* Then I turned 30.
* With all the baby-having we forgot to change the oil in our Subaru Outback and the turbo went out of business.
* So we had a month of public transportation. We visited museums and chased the F on Embarcadero. With two strollers!
* I discovered Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli.
* Arkadii the Cat (16) went on to the next life.
* Then we got a turbo put in at Brannan Auto Experts.
* Redevelopment finally entered full swing on 7th street near West Oakland BART.
* We went to Yosemite in December. I'll never go to Yosemite during summer again.
* I quit my job of over three years at Rdio.
* Started a new job at Connect.Me.
* Our son Boris turned three.
* Macbook Pro -> Thinkpad X1 with Ubuntu 11.10.
* Started work on the remaining 2/3 of the downstairs.
* Harmony read 26 books this year. This is important, since, apparently, not all children grow up reading.
I don't really read anymore. Somehow I finished these:
- Monday begins on Saturday by Strugatsky brothers (I read this book every year, in January)
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Жизнь без Карло Дмитрия Горчева (Correction: I read this last year)
- Matsushita Leadership by John Kotter
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
* My wife presented me with a Kindle Fire for Christmas, so I'll be reading more. I already read a few of the free Sherlock Holmes stories (better in English, it turns out).
* 2012 will be the year of Connect.Me, which is super exciting.
* Happy 2012!
* A year ago we were five months pregnant and camping in Hawaii with two kids (10 and 2). It was a lot of fun, in retrospect.
* At the SF Erlang Factory I convinced Joe Armstrong to try Rdio (http://www.rdio.com/people/erlang).
* Then we got about a third of the first floor of our house finished, in order to start a co-op preschool there.
* Then I fulfilled a major dream: installed an oval pot rack.
* Then Dmitri Gorchev died. (Correction: he died in 2010)
* Toured the new Bay Bridge with Manish.
* Then we had a baby! Daria:
* We got most of the living room painted.
* Then I turned 30.
* With all the baby-having we forgot to change the oil in our Subaru Outback and the turbo went out of business.
* So we had a month of public transportation. We visited museums and chased the F on Embarcadero. With two strollers!
* I discovered Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli.
* Arkadii the Cat (16) went on to the next life.
* Then we got a turbo put in at Brannan Auto Experts.
* Redevelopment finally entered full swing on 7th street near West Oakland BART.
* We went to Yosemite in December. I'll never go to Yosemite during summer again.
* I quit my job of over three years at Rdio.
* Started a new job at Connect.Me.
* Our son Boris turned three.
* Macbook Pro -> Thinkpad X1 with Ubuntu 11.10.
* Started work on the remaining 2/3 of the downstairs.
* Harmony read 26 books this year. This is important, since, apparently, not all children grow up reading.
I don't really read anymore. Somehow I finished these:
- Monday begins on Saturday by Strugatsky brothers (I read this book every year, in January)
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Жизнь без Карло Дмитрия Горчева (Correction: I read this last year)
- Matsushita Leadership by John Kotter
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
* My wife presented me with a Kindle Fire for Christmas, so I'll be reading more. I already read a few of the free Sherlock Holmes stories (better in English, it turns out).
* 2012 will be the year of Connect.Me, which is super exciting.
* Happy 2012!
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