Goodbye 2008
It’s the end of 2008 but before I say hello to 2009, let’s take a look at what happened in my life in 2008. We launched a travel community website at work for a major hotel chain. Things started off great but eventually no one visited and now there is talk that the site will be taken down due to a lack of interest. Social Networks are hard to monetize or gauge a return on their investment and this site is no different. I’m still employed so I shouldn’t complain, right?
CALIFORNIA
In late July I applied for a transfer to the LA office for the advertising agency that I work for. I interviewed in LA stayed with my aunt and uncle in Santa Monica while I was there. Santa Monica was beautiful. My apartment search in LA was a brutal reality check. Most of the places I found were around $2000/mo. plus deposit, and pet deposit. After the offer was made I wanted more and they wouldn’t negotiate. That was the end of that. I still hope to one day make it out to California. I posted some of the pictures from my trip on my Flickr account.
EXERCISE
In January, I started running. I am now running thirty minutes every other day although I’ve been a sloth and missed running much of the last month. I hope to continue running and working out as the results are noticeable and I feel much better when I’m exercising on a regular basis.
LUNCH BOX (aka my dog)
In 2008, my dog turned twelve. Twelve is very old for a golden retriever. He is blind now and struggles occasionally to get around. He is much slower than what he was just a year or two ago but he still acts like a puppy. I’ve been lucky.
WORLDWIDE SUPERWEBS
In 2008, I found music sites like imeem.com, DIVX movie streaming sites, legal sites that streamed tv with commercials like HULU and Joost. I created a Facebook account and got in touch with old friends from high school. I am now regularly posting stuff on Facebook that no one cares about (hmm, yea, exactly like this). In January, I launched a website for my old company built entirely using the Joomla content management system. It was a great learning experience. I hope to try building a Drupal site in 2009. My cousin wants me to build blog templates for attorneys using something like Movable Type. That will be good to know as well.
2008 was a good year.
CALIFORNIA
In late July I applied for a transfer to the LA office for the advertising agency that I work for. I interviewed in LA stayed with my aunt and uncle in Santa Monica while I was there. Santa Monica was beautiful. My apartment search in LA was a brutal reality check. Most of the places I found were around $2000/mo. plus deposit, and pet deposit. After the offer was made I wanted more and they wouldn’t negotiate. That was the end of that. I still hope to one day make it out to California. I posted some of the pictures from my trip on my Flickr account.
EXERCISE
In January, I started running. I am now running thirty minutes every other day although I’ve been a sloth and missed running much of the last month. I hope to continue running and working out as the results are noticeable and I feel much better when I’m exercising on a regular basis.
LUNCH BOX (aka my dog)
In 2008, my dog turned twelve. Twelve is very old for a golden retriever. He is blind now and struggles occasionally to get around. He is much slower than what he was just a year or two ago but he still acts like a puppy. I’ve been lucky.
WORLDWIDE SUPERWEBS
In 2008, I found music sites like imeem.com, DIVX movie streaming sites, legal sites that streamed tv with commercials like HULU and Joost. I created a Facebook account and got in touch with old friends from high school. I am now regularly posting stuff on Facebook that no one cares about (hmm, yea, exactly like this). In January, I launched a website for my old company built entirely using the Joomla content management system. It was a great learning experience. I hope to try building a Drupal site in 2009. My cousin wants me to build blog templates for attorneys using something like Movable Type. That will be good to know as well.
2008 was a good year.
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