This is the time of year I look back at what happened the past 366 days (being a leap year), and most if it was not good, but some of it was, so this year I will start the post with all the bad stuff.
The Bad
- Year started ominously enough, no fireworks, it was too windy, my wife said it was a bad omen. Sure was.
- There were massive fires in Australia
- Ukrainian flight downed by missiles
- Coronavirus (This will have its own section) March 11, was a dark day.
- Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna died in a helicopter crash
- The impeachment of Trump
- UK withdraws from EU
and this was just January
- The Corona Virus later named Covid 19 and nicknamed by some the CCP virus started a global pandemic
- The pandemic caused the economy to tank
- The NBA season was suspended
- Olympics postponed
- There was a deadly shooting in Canada, 22 people died
- Don’t know if Kim Jong-Un leader of North Korea was still running the country
- There were murder hornets in Washington
- Two black men were killed in separate incidents, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floydd, and another incidient where a black women Breonna Taylor was shot in her home, ignited huge protests around the country during a pandemic.
- Anarchists took advantage of the protests to begin rioting.
- Some of them used the riots as cover to steal and loot from stores.
- In all this my wife had a death in her Family and she could not attend due to the Pandemic.
- Kids were told to stay home and do remote learning.
- My kids missed a bunch of milestones, Senior Prom, Graduation, Senior cut day. the last semester was gone.
- A lot of annual traditions were gone too, none of these happened, Tulips Festival, Canada Night Market, LinuxFest, Santa Pictures, Halloween, Washington State Fair.
- Sports were done, no track or cross country.
- Although we had Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other Birthday parties, they were much smaller and limited just to our household.
- No bike club trips
- Then there is the story of my mom, which I will not go in to publicly
- CentOS 8 had its life shortened.
- My maker meetup was put on hold
- There was a run on everything from Toilet paper, wipes, flour.
- CRV got a dent
- Started getting arthritis
- In September there was some massive smoke, had to jury rig air filters.
The Good
But there were some good, so 2020 was not all bad.
- Got to work from home, while at home learned new technologies like BLE, AWS, grafana, and Containers
- Three of my kids did graduate, and their ceremonies were unique.
- My youngest son that is still in the public school system is actually doing well academically.
- We replaced out nasty rug
- Repaired our back deck.
- Painted the house
- Got our computers upgraded. (although ironically as I was posting here it crashed for the first time)
- There will be a change in U.S. Presidency.
- My wife actually made more at home through unemployment then at work.
- With my kids working, we are actually recovering quicker than most from this weird economy.
- Stock market is up
- Seahawks are doing good.
- As I embraced CentOS 7, I saw CentOS 8, and was ready to begin exploring when there was an announcement by the CentOS team that they will terminate it early, so, I am stuck with CentOS 7.
- A lot of new stuff, new bed, new fridge, new dog. new computers, new couches.
- Decommed the MS SBS server we had
- Did a video for Linuxfest
- Saw a nutritionist for most of the year and got a personal trainer
- New plex server as well
- New File Server
- Got an ATOM Pi
- Upgraded out comcast connection
- Upgraded Zoneminder
- Got a new CPAP
- My mom was here for the Holidays before the travel concerns kicked in.
There was a lot bad events, but a lot of new things happened to us as well.
So this is it goodbye 2020, your turn 2021. Posting my new goals for 2021.
Did run 1/2 mile of RTC today.
Ended last year at 295.0, so this year was a net gain of 24lbs. That is a lot.
Weight: 319.0