Time and motion
One year ends. Another begins. This is the traditional time to cast one’s gaze downwards towards one’s navel as Mark, Jonathan and Tom have already done.
There appears to be a meme circulating wherein the past year is tallied by places visited. This dovetails neatly with one of my busiest travel years yet so I’m going to run with it:
- Sierra Vista, Arizona
- Killarney, Ireland
- Austin, Texas
- Basel, Switzerland
- Freiburg, Germany
- Manchester, England
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- London, England
- Saint Augustine, Florida
- Sydney, Australia
- Melbourne, Australia
- Ironbridge, England
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Orlando, Florida
- Berlin, Germany
The highlight was visiting Australia. That really was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It was also a New Year’s resolution I was very happy to have fulfilled.
I’ll be reliving some of that Web Directions magic this year, but in Canada this time. I’ve never been to Vancouver and I’m really looking forward to it. By the way, if you’re still wavering about whether to go to this fine conference, take note that you have been granted a reprieve: the discount pricing has been extended to January 14th, so waver no more.
With Web Directions North looming, and South by Southwest still to come, 2007 is already shaping up to be another fun and busy year. It looks like this will be the year that I finally make it San Francisco.
In between the travelling, I anticipate that I’ll be doing more a lot more work with Clearleft. I spent most of 2006 slacking off real work by writing another book (more on that soon). This year, I want to sink my teeth back into some design work. I can feel my skills atrophying from too much writing and talking and not enough doing.
This year’s resolutions are:
- to get back to some “real” work,
- to keep travelling and speaking (I do love it so!),
- to not write a book,
- to play more bouzouki.
That last one is probably as unrealistic as “to get in shape” but I’m including it to induce the feelings of guilt required to motivate me.
Monday, January 1st, 2007 5:53pm
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