{"id":795,"date":"2009-12-30T20:05:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T09:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/?p=795"},"modified":"2009-12-31T18:07:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T07:07:21","slug":"a-summary-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/2009\/12\/30\/a-summary-of-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"A summary of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last year I&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>celebrated the birth of my nephew;<\/li>\n<li>had a car accident;<\/li>\n<li>had my name printed in a comic book;<\/li>\n<li>didn&#8217;t go to the Wallabies rugby game in Melbourne &#8211; first time I&#8217;ve missed a game since I moved to Melbourne;<\/li>\n<li>celebrated Melbourne being awarded what will be a Super 15 franchise in 2011;<\/li>\n<li>bought a <strong>lot<\/strong> of comics;<\/li>\n<li>added about 26 new pieces of comic book art to my collection;<\/li>\n<li>took some photos;<\/li>\n<li>trashed my macbook pro&#8217;s battery by accident;<\/li>\n<li>got new housemates;<\/li>\n<li>learnt some new stuff, forgot some things;<\/li>\n<li>discovered Nina Simone;<\/li>\n<li>decided most  of the music being put out at the moment is absolute crap;<\/li>\n<li>discovered the awesomeness that is <em>Avatar: the Last Airbender, Entourage, FlashForward<\/em> and <em>Castle<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>felt it was money\/time well spent seeing <em>Avatar, Star Trek, Up, The Boat That Rocked, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince<\/em> and <em>Watchmen<\/em> at the cinema;<\/li>\n<li>wished I hadn&#8217;t wasted my time and\/or money on <em>The Spirit, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Terminator: Salvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen<\/em> and <em>GI Joe: Rise of Cobra<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>wish I had seen <em>Frost\/Nixon, Milk, Let The Right One In, Ponyo, The Soloist, Mao&#8217;s Last Dancer<\/em> and <em>Zombieland<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>discovered I can&#8217;t ski;<\/li>\n<li>lost weight, put it back on and am trying to lose it again;<\/li>\n<li>messed up a few things at work but it&#8217;s okay;<\/li>\n<li>meet some new people;<\/li>\n<li>had a genuine fan-girl moment when I had my photo taken with Jewell Strait;<\/li>\n<li>stood on a beach in California;<\/li>\n<li>spent a lot of time missing my peeps in America and was so happy to be able to spend time with them again this year even if it was just a few days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I visited&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Los Angeles;<\/li>\n<li>San Fransisco;<\/li>\n<li>Seattle;<\/li>\n<li>Christchurch;<\/li>\n<li>Methven;<\/li>\n<li>Sydney.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And because it is all about the bike, I&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>started riding to work;<\/li>\n<li>bought a new bike;<\/li>\n<li>have ridden 2610 kilometres on my new bike;<\/li>\n<li>rode around 800 kilometres on my old bike but I accidentally reset my bike computer;<\/li>\n<li>have clocked up 937.28 kilometres on training rides since October;<\/li>\n<li>bought my first ever pair of proper bike shoes;<\/li>\n<li>bought a new, decent helmet;<\/li>\n<li>have gone through three pairs of bike gloves;<\/li>\n<li>wore out a set of brake pads;<\/li>\n<li>discovered the joys of wiggle.co.uk and probikekit.com, much to the determent of my finances;<\/li>\n<li>replaced my tyres which didn&#8217;t really need it;<\/li>\n<li>broke my sunglasses on the way home from a ride;<\/li>\n<li>bought a pair of Rudy Project Rydons;<\/li>\n<li>completed my first recreational ride;<\/li>\n<li>rode the furthest I&#8217;ve ever ridden, which is 68km;<\/li>\n<li>fell off my bike twice &#8211; once on the old bike and once on the new bike.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that covers it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last year I&#8230; celebrated the birth of my nephew; had a car accident; had my name printed in a comic book; didn&#8217;t go to the Wallabies rugby game in Melbourne &#8211; first time I&#8217;ve missed a game since I moved to Melbourne; celebrated Melbourne being awarded what will be a Super 15 franchise in 2011; bought a lot of comics; added about 26 <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/2009\/12\/30\/a-summary-of-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[211,187,212],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}