I received an email from a friend of mine informing me that a friend of mine had just passed away. His name was Robert (Pete) Simar, and had been suffering from Mesothelioma.

Pete was the step father of a good friend of mine, but I was very close to the family as a whole. I was included like I was a member of the family, and I considered them as part of my family. Pete was really a great guy, he was kind, and was a lot of fun to be around.

This situation is a bit worse because I have never had anyone really close to me pass away. I had a few family members pass away years ago, but we were not close. Pete and I were much closer and I wasn’t able to visit him while he was in the hospital, which makes it even worse.

A friend sent me a link to try out the Dewey Color System. After taking the test, which only took like 30 seconds, I think that the output is pretty accurate. I just took the test again because there were a few colors that I was unsure about, but the outcome was the same. If you are interested in taking the test, please visit the testing site.

Here is my report

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This is going to be a busy year if things go as planned.

I may be going to Sydney, Australia and Aukland, New Zealand in February or early March. I have a 10yr high school reunion in May in Vermont. I have to go to Atlanta sometime this year to get my molar implants put in.

In October I will be flying to Virginia to pick up my mom and take her to Paris, something she has wanted to do her entire life, but has not been able to. Now that she is in a very forgetful state I want to try to get her there before it gets worse.

I am going to try to visit London, and Switzerland sometime this year too, but who knows when I will be able to fit those in with everything going on.

Today, January 7th, 2010, is two years from the first day I stepped in a Google office. On Jan 7th 2008 I started working for Google as a contractor, and was hired full time July 21st of 2008. It has been an amazing two years, I have made a lot of friends, had a lot of great experiences, and learned so much. I look forward to the rest of 2010 as the first week being back at work has already been very rewarding.

I am so excited about 2010, last year was exciting enough, but this year is going to be fantastic. I moved to Mountain View in October to start working with a new team and work on transferring to another department. It looks like that is going to be finalized around March/April and I just moved the rest of my belongings out to Mountain View.

I had two separate posts with resolutions last year, one for January 1, and another for my birthday, since that really is a new year. I am going to roll over my old ones because I had no time in 2009.

• Sell/trash old stuff that I don’t use anymore
• Spend more time blogging (project52)
• Take better care of my health
• Improve Django and Python skills
• Work on a startup
• Create an Android application
• Eliminate all debt
• Start dating again
• Create a solution log
• Move up in Google