It feels like yesterday when the year got started and there
was still a whole year to look forward to. Now, there is little less than a
month left of it. So many things happened but I had so many more ideas and
plans for things that I wanted to achieve. I guess now they'll have to shift
over for a next year.
At the beginning of the year I had ambitious ideas about my sci-fi story
universe. While the plan is still to get to it I have not done anything further
about it and it does not seem that it will happen soon.
Otherwise I had plans to start a learning program for junior
guys that wanted to start with .Net. This did get underway and we had a couple
of good sessions. Hopefully we can build on it next year.
Then there is SaDev. I must confess that I did not have the
same amount of time or energy this year to push it like it should be. On a
personal level things got a bit hectic in the personal life and it took
priority over any other external social events.
The good things for this year? Well, I went to PDC in Los Angeles, Hollywood!
There was Tech Ed. Visual Studio and SQL 2005 was launched… (eventually). I got
my laptop I wanted for so long. Got my first (and only so far) AMD64. Three of
our heros fell (referring to the newly engaged, Jannie, David and Deon).
And the negative things? Perhaps its better that I don’t
start mentioning these… or at least all of them. My car blew a top cylinder gasket…
again. This time fortunately it did not cost me an entire new engine. We did
not have a sadev LAN this year (yes, shame on us all).
So what is the conclusion for this year? It was a mixed year
with good and bad. There was some really down times for me personally but at
least some very exciting up ones as well.
So what is up for next year? I still want to get to my story
universe idea – if time permits. The .Net juniors will come back for a season
II. The idea is to extend it and make it a bit more practical. There must at
least be one LAN! (Even if I have to blackmail some people to get it started).
Enjoy the (remainder) of this year and don’t go overdoing it
(too much that is…)