I have a terrible memory for what year events in the past took place. Luckily I keep all my old resumes! So I just found out that was the year I went back to school to study music, after having dropped out of high school and working random jobs for the previous 5 years.

I quit a boring office job to work part time in a comic shop at the same time as studying.

Music school was great until a minor drunken injury cause me to defer my studies until the following year.

Just moved abroad for the first time.

In high school, in another country whose language I was leaning

Finishing up my medical college and starting my internship one of the most fun I had in a year. Where I could actually play doctor. Working for 36-48 hours covered in blood, pus, urine, luckily no faeces.

I’d finally secured a permanent, full-time job in IT at the age of 29. Then my new girlfriend, who was a charming alcoholic with borderline personality disorder, convinced me to quit and travel the world with her. Which I did. We broke up somewhere in Malaysia. I sent my 30th working on reception in a Backpacker joint in Brisbane. I regret nothing!

Now happily married, 2 kids (11 an 9) and working as an IT manager back in my hometown.

Jumping on the bed while at our cabin in the woods. I was five years old, and my parents had a big bed you could jump on. The cabin is now gone, but I recently found a dvd with videos taken there, one of them even has the voice of my grandfather in it, which I haven’t heard in thirteen years. The cabin got tore down last year after a disagreement with the owner of the plot we were renting. I guess being there with my family for over 45 years, and paying for her entire education was not good enough.

My son was also born in 2007. So, I was up to all the excitement and worry about becoming a new dad, is what I was up to the most of 2007!

Also, painting and putting together a lot of baby furniture. And reading the baby books. And feeling more terrified than I ever had before. And also more excited, than I had been for anything in my life.

Great year.

That was my junior to senior year of college. I was majoring in aeronautics at ERAU.

I can’t recall anything in particular - I was working, I had a dog… But I had a look at a “what’s in my bag” photo I took that year, and it included a cheque book, a diary, a Nokia phone, a Palm Pilot, an MP3 player, a compact digital camera and a portable radio. All of which have been superseded by one single device. Amazing.

being a grad student and living on 10K a year income.

i used to buy expired food a lot to not starve and barely ate any protein. but i was living the dream and realized it was actually a nightmare.

Finishing up high school. Had a passion for animation, was practicing flash animation for a while.

Was in scouts, specifically venturers. Was at the age where I finally was able to have some confidence and just enjoy life, had some camps that I remember fondly to this day.

Sex drugs and rock n roll

We had heated debates about force fields in my kindergarten class during recess lol

Not much happened until October when The Orange Box came out. After Oct 10th, I was just playing TF2 all the time and acting as Community Ambassador/Event Coordinator for a popular set of servers.

starting high school in a different town. biking a lot to get around (work, friends, school), playing a fair bit of guitar that I got a year earlier, tons of call of duty modern warfare after school (pretty much my first online game experience other than RuneScape), teaching kids to ski in the winter, washing dishes at a restaurant year round, and I think I got a ‘real’ job at the hardware store that year, too

oh and Christmas still had snow, I think