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.

This post is about my buddy Jermaine Maree. Why you might ask, because he was absolutely no help in picking another topic for a blog post.

me: so what should i blog about
jermaine: shurgs shoulders
jermaine: lol
jermaine: shrugs
me: lol
me: ill talk about you

So I am going to dedicate this entire post to Jermaine.

Jermaine and I met at Google and worked together almost every day for 20 months. He left Google in 2009, shortly after I moved to CA, I blame myself (its my blog post Jermaine I’ll tell the story how I want :p ). It wasn’t because of me, I kid, but one thing is he currently working on with his new found free time is WP Bandit and his framework, Reptile. Visit the site, enjoy his awesome themes… he’s very talented.

I did what I said I would do… what’s up Jermaine

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

Today is Christmas, and for many years my family has done very little for Christmas. There are many reasons for this happening, but it is sad none the less. This year I am alone, I wanted to get the apartment cleaned up before I fly to Atlanta tomorrow because I am bringing back a lot of stuff. I had offers to eat dinner with my team lead, but as I said I just wanted to relax before a very long week.

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