2005 - Year in review
Monday, January
2nd, 2006
I'm going to steal
Ed's format for this year in review because I love bulleted lists like nothing else. If I could marry bulleted lists, I would. Anyway.
I didn't blog as much as I would have liked to this year, and I heard about it from a lot of people, customers included. (Thanks, Steven! I can always count on you for a good heckling. And sorry about the misspelling!) I hate to use my constant travel as an excuse, but I will - it's difficult for me to find enough left over brain matter to conjure up something interesting most of the time. But really, the reason for the lack of blogging is that this year has been such a complete rollercoaster for me. I've been pretty much off-balance the whole year. Some really amazing, wonderful things have happened, and some really awful things have happened. I haven't talked about most of these things here, because I like to keep things light, fun, and full of
monkeys. So I'll throw out some highlights for you. And some monkeys.
Memories from 2005:
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Lotusphere '05, which was the beginning of the blogmonkeys. They sure are cute little devils, aren't they?
Watching someone choke down green beer in Columbus on St. Patty's Day. (Not me! It was all Guinness for me that night.)
Being on AA's inaugural flight from Chicago to Dublin in May, and then stomping all around Dublin with my pal Jeff in the rain having a grand time.
The View conference in Boston, where the blogmonkey just couldn't control his rampant pen thievery.
My friends and family gathering together in July for something absolutely horrible that brought us all much closer together.
Speaking at a customer conference in October and watching the blogmonkey progressively lose control.
Spraining the everloving crap out of my ankle and having Susan display my gimpy foot on a projected screen to a room full of people. (Thanks for taking over for me on that trip, Susan!)
Being a part of the content team for Lotusphere '06 along with an AWESOME team of people. This is going to be the best Lotusphere ever and I am so happy to be a part of it, not just because of the content but because of the amazing people involved.
Travel highlights from 2005:
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Miles flown: Approximately 140,000, butt-in-seat. I'm not quite as thorough as Ed, so I won't dig through all of my airline statements, but I'm pretty sure that's accurate.
Countries visited: Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom.
Cities visited (asterisk denotes city not previously visited): Hartford, CT*, Orlando, FL (I'll bet you can guess what this was for!), Pleasanton, CA, Chicago, IL (2x), Rochester, NY (2x), Canandaigua, NY (2x), Detroit, MI*, Columbus, OH*, Kansas City, MO*, Grand Rapids, MI* (2x), Charlotte, NC*, Pittsburgh, PA*, Dublin, Ireland, London, England, Boston/North Quincy*/Salem*, MA (3x), San Jose, CA, New York, NY (8x), Columbus, IN*, North Chicago, IL, Phoenix, AZ, Santa Clara, CA, Albany, NY*, San Diego, CA, Sacramento, CA*, San Jose, CA, Columbus, GA*, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN*, Vancouver, BC*, Florham Park, NJ*, Sacramento, CA, Nashville, TN, Watertown, NY (2x).
New airports: BDL, BNA, YVR, MSP, DTW, CMH, MCI, GRR, CLT, PIT, IND, SAC, ATL, BHM.
Airlines flown: American, United, Delta, Southwest, America West, Aer Lingus, US Airways.
2006 airline status: American Executive Platinum, Delta Gold Medallion, Northwest World Perks Silver.
2006 hotel status: Hilton Diamond, Starwood Gold, Intercontinental Gold.
Wishes for 2006
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I wish everyone a happy, healthy, successful 2006. I want to thank all of my friends and colleagues for being there for me this year and I hope next year will be even more amazing than this one.
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