As many of you have noticed I've taken a break from this blog during the last couple months. In my mind the break was well deserved, though perhaps a bit over-extended. I've been able to
- relax,
- play with the kids,
- go out to dinner with Carrie,
- watch movies (The Golden Compass),
- play the new Lego Star Wars on the Wii with Jasmine, play some Bioshock, Gears of War, Halo 3, and Call of Duty 4 on the Xbox 360,
- read some books (His Dark Materials trilogy, various books on Silverlight)
- take Jasmine to a Blazer's game,
- create some Silverlight apps for the family,
- and basically enjoy life!
- (Yeah, I still need to clean out the garage...)
The most important thing I've done during this break is solidify some goals for this next year. My biggest goal is to make sure that there is more overlap between the things I want to do, the things I should do, and the things that actually get done. Expect more on that topic throughout the year. You can also expect to see a number of posts reflecting back on last year. For example, I've realized that while it's nice to do a post right after I attend an event, I shouldn't not post my thoughts on the event just because I didn't have time to type it out within the first 24/48/72/2x hours after it occurred. I definitely did that way too much last year.
So there you have it. I've got a list of topics to blog on that is a mile long, and the goal here is to blog at least one entry per day until I get caught up. We'll see how long this lasts. 