Year In Review

As 2017 closes down, I’d like to reflect on the events of the past year. I visited New England for the first time, changed roles at work, suffered a fairly serious head injury (and recovered), crossed a few items off my bucket list and made countless other memories.

Happenings

Activities

• Canoe and camping on the Wisconsin River
• Camping in Door County
• Hosted Halloween, Friendsgiving, Christmas parties
• Recovered from a head injury
• Sarah Wildes’ Murder Mystery
• Skydiving
• Stephen Lagos 3rd Annual Christmas Extravaganza
• Tubing on Sugar River
• Vacation to New England
• Winter hot-tubbing in Baraboo, WI

Art & Culture

• Saw the following shows
  • Jan 1 – British Invasion Bash at Southgate House Revival
  • May 28 – Odesza at Red Rocks
  • Jun 17 – The Avett Brothers at Breese Stevens Field
  • Jul 27 – Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra – Concert on the Square
  • Dec 8 – Rod Tuffcurls and the Benchpress at Majestic
    
  • Dec 10 – Dispatch at Barrymore Theater
• Learned a few classical songs on the piano (though not as many as I should have)
• Painted pottery to add to my dinner set
  • Looking Up (did this in a rush)
    
  • Home.
  • Route 66
    
  • Sunset Pointe
    
  • Space
    
  • Winter
    

Travel

This year I visited the following states for the first time:

• Colorado
• New Hampshire
• Maine
• Vermont

I enjoyed vacations with my good friend Tyler Visagie in Denver, explored Dallas, Tx and Southern Methodist University with Tessa Jones, New England with Kelsey Smith and quite a few smaller trips mentioned in my end of year video or throughout this blog post.

Plans for 2018

• Travel to the following countries:
  • Egypt
  • Jordan
  • Isreal
  • The Netherlands
  • Saudi Arabia
• Help at least one customer install and turn on our new scheduling software at Epic
• Visit another national park
• Visit my thirtieth state
• Lobby for at least one desired change in my local government to be adopted
• Weigh 170lbs by May

Resources

• 2016: Looking Back
• 2015: Moving to Madison
• For more memories, check out the list of articles I’ve written in the past year.

Skydiving in Madison, WI