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Wow, 2020. What happened?
- Bumping into C just before the year started. We'd first met in youth theater about 10 years ago, and had a hell of a lot of catching up to do.
- The Mechanisms finally calling it a day. Thanks to C I ended up with tickets to both nights, and it was glorious. Such a concentration of awesome people in one place, both on-stage and off. In some ways, a shame it couldn't be extended into
- Many years of work deferring essential maintenance catching up with us, resulting in many stressful all-nighters trying to keep the network lights blinking.
- Antichrist, and a bloody brilliant all-nighter.
- Ripping and replacing the network core at our largest hospital. Successful, in so far as nobody was actually put at risk of harm, even if I wasn't confident of it at the time.
- Unknown Armies game, which I approached totally unspoiled. Gaming over Discord has been one of the few things that I'd actually like to keep from this year. The opportunity to Do Social on a weeknight evening when friends are more than about an hour's drive away has been great.
- COVID, obviously. I was in the very fortunate position of remaining fully employed throughout the year. More than fully employed, as evidenced by a work-induced near-breakdown in the second half of the year.
- Finally declaring the building works on my house finished, and moving the last of my possessions in.
- Mum selling her house, then discovering her new place wouldn't be ready for another 3 months. No problem, she promptly moved in with me and I doubt I'd have got through the lockdown with as much sanity intact if she hadn't.
Now I ought to be heading to a hut in the woods, where there should be singing, boardgames and stripping the willow at midnight while the Kitchen Ceilidh Band plays. But I'm not. Bloody COVID.
- Bumping into C just before the year started. We'd first met in youth theater about 10 years ago, and had a hell of a lot of catching up to do.
- The Mechanisms finally calling it a day. Thanks to C I ended up with tickets to both nights, and it was glorious. Such a concentration of awesome people in one place, both on-stage and off. In some ways, a shame it couldn't be extended into
- Many years of work deferring essential maintenance catching up with us, resulting in many stressful all-nighters trying to keep the network lights blinking.
- Antichrist, and a bloody brilliant all-nighter.
- Ripping and replacing the network core at our largest hospital. Successful, in so far as nobody was actually put at risk of harm, even if I wasn't confident of it at the time.
- Unknown Armies game, which I approached totally unspoiled. Gaming over Discord has been one of the few things that I'd actually like to keep from this year. The opportunity to Do Social on a weeknight evening when friends are more than about an hour's drive away has been great.
- COVID, obviously. I was in the very fortunate position of remaining fully employed throughout the year. More than fully employed, as evidenced by a work-induced near-breakdown in the second half of the year.
- Finally declaring the building works on my house finished, and moving the last of my possessions in.
- Mum selling her house, then discovering her new place wouldn't be ready for another 3 months. No problem, she promptly moved in with me and I doubt I'd have got through the lockdown with as much sanity intact if she hadn't.
Now I ought to be heading to a hut in the woods, where there should be singing, boardgames and stripping the willow at midnight while the Kitchen Ceilidh Band plays. But I'm not. Bloody COVID.