2008 in review

The year is ending and I thought I'd sum it all up in a post.

Trips

Managed to visit these places during the year.

• Amsterdam
• London
• Münich
• St. Anton
• Sweden
• Palm Springs
• Las Vegas
• Seattle
• San Francisco (Finally got to go to Alcatraz)
• Napa
• Maui

Toys & Gadgets

Got the following new toys during the year.

• BMW 335i car
• BMW R1100R BMW motorcycle
• Sony Ericsson K850i phone
• Nokia N810i internet tablet
• Two Lenovo T61p laptops (One for work and one for play)
• Added another completely silent player for my media center for the bedroom
• Got another IPod (This one a Nano)
• Nintendo Wii
• Microsoft XBox 360

Concerts & Shows

Actually managed to go to quite a few shows this year.

• Coachella (Was sick the whole time)
• Eddie Izzard
• Guys & Dolls
• Madonna
• Coldplay
• Above & Beyond
• Deadmau5
• Cirque Du Soleil Beatles Love
• Armin van Buuren
• London Beat
• Foo Fighters
• ZZ Top
• Pagent of the Masters

Media

Added 1852 songs, 109 movies and 2074 TV show episodes to the media center. Started listening to a bunch of lectures from The Teaching Company mostly about history, religion, science and philosophy. As always, read a bunch of books but I can't remember which without access to my book case.

Also integrated the Rockbox running IPods with my media center and with my car so I finally have a pretty sweet system for listening to music again wherever I am at.

Finally thoughts

It has generally been a great year. Also started the year single and ended it in a relationship. All in all I've had a really good 2008. Don't know what everybody is talking about that this was supposed to have been a bad year. If 2009 is as good as 2008 I should be so lucky!

Happy New Years Everybody!