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2009: Biggest Hits of the Year

2009: A Review of a Year

NEWS

• Everywhere I turn people are gathering around the TV to watch Obama become the 1st Black President
• Chicago looses the Olympics
• Patrick Swayze dies
• Joe Wilson calls Obama a liar
• Madoff gets sentenced to 150 years. There’s an applause in the courtroom
• New Moon is everywhere and is a massive disappointment
• Susan Boyle showed us that she really ‘dreamed a dream’
• Brittany Murphy leaves us far too young
• Kanye West is a ‘jackass’ after hijacking Swift’s award
• The Web turns 40
• Mass shooting at Fort Hood
• Serial Killer Anthony Sowell
• Cash for Clunkers introduced
• Sarah Palin resigns as Governor
• Comedian Al Franken in a not-so-funny turn becomes MN senator
• Balloon boy is a hoax
• Captain Chesley Sullenberger named hero
• A schoolgirl is sole survivor of Yemenia Flight 626
• The US get their first CIO
• Christian Bale’s freak out moment
• Shocked that the Dark Knight does NOT get an Oscar nomination for best picture
• Michael Jackson dies and the world remembers his talent not personal life
• Obama’s Noble Peace Prize seems more about promises than actions
• Swine Flu won’t go anyway and the media loves it
• Iranian election breaks all over Twitter: Video
• Tiger Woods gets scared by his wife and 10+ mistresses
• The bailouts, the corruption, and the bonuses-all tells us why the bubble blew up…greed of man
• Layoffs everywhere, penny jars shrinking, the great depression upon us

CAREER

• Moment I realized what I would call my company
• Registering a business and seeing it listed
• Receiving a call from the Secretary of State saying my business was registered
• Fired during performance review
• Staying up all night to help new UK team go live and then arriving at my real job by 6am
• My final day at the office
• HR interrogates me and I don’t cooperate
• Realizing this leadership lesson is not executed by most: leadership being a truly unselfish position where you put your team before yourself
• Sadly recognizing lack of integrity absent in those who are above me. Integrity isn’t always an attribute of the successful
• My integrity and receiving affirmation for my integrity during trying moments
• Day I decided to venture off and try and start a company I get a interview in my own small town
• Quoted by a writer for CIO magazine
• Being asked to become an entrepreneur by other entrepreneurs and then realizing I had the spirit (self-awareness)
• Spending far too much time over analyzing and perfecting my business plan
• Former boss showing support by offering me projects and taking me out for lunch

PERSONAL

• Spending a boat-load on a speed boat
• David Gray live
• Discovering new guilty pleasures: “Lost”, “Entourage”, “30 Rock” (I want to go to there)
• Falling in love with this: “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank
• Snow on Christmas and it kept on coming (12-14 inches)
• Reading about Ed Kemper and Jeffrey Dahmer and getting scared when home alone in the dark
• Discovering the soulful ‘Playing for Change’ performing ‘Stand by me’
• Reading and gaining new perspective from the Wager by Pascal: ‘Belief is a wise wager’.
• Listening to MJ’s greatest on the day of his death: Billie Jean and Man in the Mirror
• Winning Heavy Weight Champion of the World–on xbox
• I get a poem after one date
• Buying a Wii and realizing I’m always going to be better at wii tennis than tennis
• Sister and I staying up until 8am watching Dexter
• Receiving my Google Voice invite
• Car gets broken into and Zune stolen at Tech Conference
• Dumped on valentines day
• Realizing I’m emotionally stronger than I realized
• Watching the classic Twilight Zone for the first time and am blown away
• No more wisdom in my teeth
• Seeing two people I know get listed in Inc mag fastest growing companies of year
• Being terrified every time I checked my investments and bank accounts
• Receiving my settlement check from Majesco stock. The impressive amt of $23.28 bought me a prime rib
• Driving through old neighborhood looking at a boat
• No salmonella outbreak can keep me away from peanut butter
• Father collapses in kitchen, 911 is called
• Duke the dog (Collie) gets shaved and scares me (thought he was a strange dog running towards me)
• The first catch of the year and then loosing it
• The first pike of the year and thinking it was a weed until the big fight at the end
• The first muskie catch (the fish of 10,000 casts) in the dark on the first night we decide to try
• Everyone is scared to touch the 1st muskie catch of the year (oh how big are your teeth)
• Realizing my new house is off of Elm Street
• Eric & Cindy introduce very little Connor to the world
• Forced to watch the angry poodle and hyper-active collie while family is at family wedding in Denver
• I cancel my Sirius XM in Feb and still have it in Dec
• Trail of terror in style (limo style) and witnessing a certain friend scream like a girl, and a real-life Chucky
• Birdie gets stuck in fireplace-and visits me again in a month
• Sister gets in a snow-related accident the day before a Snow Storm
• Spending 2hrs trying to get my trans am BACK into the garage on Xmas Eve (MN winter)
• Sister tries to ski unsuccessfully (over and over…and over again)
• Being asked to be a best man
• Wilds Game in suite and then loosing seats to bratty rich kids
• Memorial Day on the lake catching nothing but wind
• The first time someone retweeted me on Twitter
• Docking boat at Fletcher’s for lunch-feeling like a Richy Rich
• Beautiful sunsets on the lake
• Thinking I don’t need bug spray on a MN lake at dusk
• Mother’s first catch is just a tad bigger than her lure
• On the lake with the early morning fog reminding of a horror movie (can’t see beyond the boat)
• Aerosmith cancels tour and am forced to give up my tickets and the reality I will probably never get to see the aging rocker sing again
• The day when I became one year away from 30
• Finding a boat on Craigslist via blackberry and father believing it’s such a great deal he runs into store to fetch family (sense of urgency emphasized)
• Taking the boat out on Minnetonka for test drive

© 2010 Ramblings of JayS.