and as the 2005 comes to a close, i reflect on all the fortune and misfortune that the year brought to me and the people i care about. i always love watching those news montages where they have clips of all of the significant things that happened this year but since my new apartment doesn’t have cable hooked up yet, i thought i’d reminiss on my own (as i watch indiana jones and the temple of doom on dvd). 2005 was a great year for me. it started off with my best friends listening to the killers in la, i rode more than 1000 miles on my road bike that i put together, and rode in 4 major events, one with takako on a tandem for 50 miles that i also put together. i made some new good friends, and became closer with many of my old friends. i met takako’s parents, and they seemed to like me well enough, eric and i bought a new boat, and i learned how to wakeboard and spent most of my summer out on the water, and i’ve never had a better tan :) i did well in all my classes, and am very slowly but surely bringing the college debacle to an end. i intentionally gained 15lbs and hit the gym harder this year than i ever have with the help of dave and costin, and a series of personal things went better than expected.

of course for america and the world at large, there’s been better years. the year started off with the recovery from the tsunamis in south east asia, acts of terrorism are still occuring around the globe, the war in iraq, while slowly making progress is claiming scores of lives a day, the hurricanes wiped out entire cities and killed and displaced thousands, and nick and jessica broke up.

i really look forward to the new year, especially since i get to spend new year’s eve with taka. i hope you all have a great year next year. costin was telling me about actually writing down resolutions in an attempt to actually make them happen… i think that’s a great idea. cheers homies!