There's already one of these recaps for the summer of this year, but it seems like most of the excitement for the year actually happened after I wrote that entry (or else it just doesn't mention some important things), so I figure I'll go ahead and recap the whole thing. The primary purpose of this is to give me a better idea of what order all the important events happened, especially since the lack of a fall semester this year leaves me a bit disoriented. So I'll be mostly skipping over little details.

So, the year undoubtedly started out with me being at home for Christmas and the new year. Dawne's kids were there making a mess of all the wrapping paper, etc. All I remember getting for christmas were my headphones, but that was a different year. Same with the optical mouse. I probably game mom a 'TOGoS 2005' CD. Maybe I got socks or underwear.

Down in the basement (this was the first break that I kept my stuff there instead of bumming around the living room where I tended to be in the way) I worked on Crapi a bit, in an attempt to get it done before 2010, as I wanted to focus my effort on things like TMapGen and D5.2 (by December 2005, Fizz, A-Day, and I had already had the best of our D5.2 fun). I started drinking coffee with my breakfast as I made a totally sweet river cave in MAP22 (which turned out to be a big pain to actually play through).

My last semester at UW-Platt mostly consisted of either hanging out in the projects lab playing Armaggatron, or hanging out at 575 playing Sonic and Unreal Tournament. Being done with Math classes, I didn't really have a lot of homework. I was still tutoring physics, though, and all that stuff about magnetic flux finally started to make sense.

Other things that happend that semester were going to job interviews, showing of D5.2 at the Expo (my own interest in D5.2 pretty much went away after that), and reading books in the library while I wasn't studying for psychology.

A few weeks before the end of the semester I got really frustrated with all my software projects and 'freed' myself from my computer by realizing that I didn't actually have to deal with any of that stuff if I didn't want to. So instead I went outside and walked around with Fizz and A-Day. And stuff. Anyway, I felt a lot better after that. Freeing myself from my computer is something I might want to do again soon...

Near the end of May, I graduated, had finals, and came home. Between coming home and starting to work at Widen I spent about a week re-arranging my room.

For a few weeks things were pretty uneventful. I got the hang of biking to work, played with my webcam and annoyed Justin, and took pictures of geese and turtles on the way home from work. Dawne's kids were visiting, we went to Blue Mounds, and I went for a nice bike ride with Sarah where we went up to the very top of the hill at Elver and looked all around.

Around the 4th of July things started to get dumb. Mary came back from Germany and started causing me various kinds of frustration. I messed up the Geo by rear-ending someone while I was driving Shanie and Hannah back to our house. I messed up a Zazzle shirt order by entering my zip code as 57311. I messed up the Crapi release several times. And we spent about 6 hours driving to the farm and back, and it felt like a big waste of a weekend, though I wasn't sure what would have been better.

Then I broke my finger. The next day my mom and I drove to Galena. It was really pretty, but having a b0rk3d finger and sitting in an overly air-conditioned room to watch a cheesey play made it hard to enjoy.

Things weren't immediately awful, though. During this time I went running with Fizz and Joh in the conservancy a few times, and my finger slowly healed. We had a pretty good time playing Motherload. But then Mary kept going off to Chicago and I wished I got to do stuff like that. As time went on I felt worse and worse and worse about how lame my life was (well, and other things too, which I tried to figure by writing into a lot of private entries). After about noon every day I couldn't stand being at work any more. I just wanted to run outside and hug someone and cry a lot.

I had a few little adventures to help break this up. Fizz and I went on a nice bike ride where we discovered a new part of the bike path, and we had a good time with A-Day (after which I ordered 700$ of RosettaStone and made Narg 24). But as soon as they were over I'd feel awful again.

The week after A-Day's visit, Fizz and I went to Platteville to visit him and the Bens. We went to Glenview, and we went on a sweet bike ride. And after that I felt awful again. And I talked to A-Day about it, and that helped a little. And when I got home I bought an electric shaver. And started talking to a girl that I found on that fish site. And that made me feel better, too. And that week at work I talked to Julia a lot, and then that weekend I went to Milwaukee to visit, and that helped make me feel better, too. And then I got the new bike that I had been wanting for a long time (someone finally stole my old one).

Things were looking up for me from then on. I went canoeing with the Hoofers and met YC. I bought a camera and went downtown with Fizz and Hayato and Bob, I went rock climbing and apple picking and Fall Colors tripping with YC and the Hoofers, and later YC and I went on a expensive breakfast, duck pond, mall, and movie adventure.

The excitement slowed down a bit in November. Too cold for canoing. I had started working on little software projects again, and maybe this was a mistake, as it distracted me from doing things that actually made me feel like I was spending my time well. But I did hang out with YC a lot. We went on some nice walks to Picnic Point and downtown, and I went to the zoo to visit Jaci and visited Fizz at work.

Halfway through November I went on the NFJS trip with folks from Widen. The trip was dissapointing.

For Thanksgiving we went down to visit Lois and Tony, and YC came along. That night we decided to try being 'more than just friends'. We went to a party at her friend's house and went driving around in the night. Other than sledding with Fizz, the Widen christmas party, and lots of YC and I hanging out together, the next month was pretty uneventful. And on Christmas, YC and I sort of broke up. The uneventfulness of the past month and the not being with YC combined to make me feel kind of lousy again. Thankfully not as lousy or in the same way as in the fall, but lousy nontheless. And I got all sick and gross. I played a lot of Mario this past week, and ate some sudafed (so I'm feeling a bit better than I did this morning), and mom wants me to think of something to put in the time capsule.

I'm looking forward to the Delta Lodge ski trip on the 11th, and in summer I think A-Day and I are going to take off on some sort of grand adventure. It'll be good to be with A-Day again. I think I worry too much about money...