Jan: Fiancée visited, seeing my family; Obama inaugurated (I don't buy the hype, but voting him in did wonderful things for the US' international image).
Feb: A wedding date is set, and plane tickets are bought.
Mar: Google Wave tech demo comes out.
Apr: Furcadia 0.27: whisper update, followed quickly by the optional 0.27B update that supported groups.
May: Lost my job, but get an offer from DEP - I'm moving up in the world!
Jun: I go to Canada, meet my future mum-in-law, get married, meet Ghost Tiger, Nemo Kiana and Heaven's Cat, and more new family.
Jul: Honeymoon and birthday at Anthrocon in Pittsburgh, meeting DEP and more Furcadians than I could count, then a road trip down to Texas to see the DEP HQ; meet Richard "Lord British" Gariott at his castle ranch, along with the Fat Man, Mike McShaffrey, most of the DomainOfHeroes.com crowd, and many more industry greats.
Aug: Getting my own apartment in the US.
Sep: Meet John Romero; apartment floods; return to the UK; phone got stolen; hacking attack lets me improve much furc security; big family get-together; say goodbye to my UK home.
Oct: Return to Austin, TX! This is home, now.
Nov: Furcadia 0.27C is the first update I'd been involved in; start working on 0.28; my first US Thanksgiving; buying "Zombies!" board game on Black Friday.
Dec: Got two cats!; My first Christmas and New Year's in the US; working on my first big update; my first missed deadline!
Feb: A wedding date is set, and plane tickets are bought.
Mar: Google Wave tech demo comes out.
Apr: Furcadia 0.27: whisper update, followed quickly by the optional 0.27B update that supported groups.
May: Lost my job, but get an offer from DEP - I'm moving up in the world!
Jun: I go to Canada, meet my future mum-in-law, get married, meet Ghost Tiger, Nemo Kiana and Heaven's Cat, and more new family.
Jul: Honeymoon and birthday at Anthrocon in Pittsburgh, meeting DEP and more Furcadians than I could count, then a road trip down to Texas to see the DEP HQ; meet Richard "Lord British" Gariott at his castle ranch, along with the Fat Man, Mike McShaffrey, most of the DomainOfHeroes.com crowd, and many more industry greats.
Aug: Getting my own apartment in the US.
Sep: Meet John Romero; apartment floods; return to the UK; phone got stolen; hacking attack lets me improve much furc security; big family get-together; say goodbye to my UK home.
Oct: Return to Austin, TX! This is home, now.
Nov: Furcadia 0.27C is the first update I'd been involved in; start working on 0.28; my first US Thanksgiving; buying "Zombies!" board game on Black Friday.
Dec: Got two cats!; My first Christmas and New Year's in the US; working on my first big update; my first missed deadline!
