I felt that writing something like this might bring a little bit of closure. What happened last year? I’m not sure. Let me think about it for a minute…
Family related:
- Wifey and I have now been married 8 years!
- Our fourth child, our second adoption and first international adoption (Ethiopia) is finally well underway. Virtually all the paperwork is done and we are waiting for final approval and a date to travel. (Late Spring 2011)
- Daughter turned 6 and is growing much more independent. So enjoyable. Homeschooling her.
- Son turned 4 and is in preschool. Loves numbers. An introvert like myself.
- Baby son turned 1 and is a whirlwind. Woooooshhh!!!
Books Read in 2010 (in chronological order):
- I See Satan Fall Like Lightening, Rene Girard
- Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies, David Bently Hart
- The Chestnut King, N.D. Wilson
- Poetic Knowledge, James Taylor (partial)
- No Man is an Island, Thomas Merton (reread)
- Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination, James Alison
- On Being Liked, James Alison
- Oedipus Unbound, Rene Girard (partial)
- The Ball and the Cross, G.K. Chesterton
- Young Man Luther, Erik Erikson
- Acedia & Me, Kathleen Norris
- Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton (partial reread)
- Battling to the End, Rene Girard
- The Path to Rome, Hilaire Belloc
- The Genesis of Desire, Jean-Michel Oughourlian
- The Art of Biblical Narrative, Robert Alter
- That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis
- For Rene Girard, various authors
- The Oresteia, Aeschylus (audio book)
- Who Will Deliver Us?, Paul Zahl
- All Hallows Eve, Charles Williams
- Between Noon and Three, Robert Capon
- The Lost History of Christianity, Philip Jenkins
- The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis
Happenings at work:
- Wrote lots and lots of code (C#, SQL, Javascript, HTML/CSS), most of it tedious, but some of it clever
- Didn’t get fired or laid off, despite large cuts to higher ed
- Finally have a new coworker, after the vacancy was held up by red tape for over 2 years
- Started working a couple days a month assisting a local coffee roaster
- Wrote a moderately complex web app for a local non-profit using all new (to me) languages and frameworks (PHP 5.3 + Yii)
Music related:
- Have now officially forgotten all of my classical guitar rep
- Started playing guitar or bass regularly at church (simple song leading)
- Took Jazz Theory again and learned so much
- Discovered most of U2’s music and why it is so great. Also listened to a lot of Lunasa.