2014 Timeline

A smattering of events from 2014

January:

• We had 15 of Rebecca's family from her mother's side over for a holiday dinner.
• I released v0.1.0 of Auricle which quizzed you on music notation, and then I never worked on it again.
• It rained, snowed, or iced over almost every other day, destroying the fan motor on my heat pump.

February:

• It snowed a million times and the Winter Olympics had too many speed skating events.
• We partied with the Miricks for the first time in forever, at a 222 Reunion gathering (on 2/15 because 2/22 was booked).
• Rebecca got her first iPhone.
• I got food poisoning and mostly died.

March:

• We ate bacon for Marv's birthday at a giant McMansion in Arlington.
• We tried Bonchon for the first time and Rebecca ate all of the super spicy wings without hesitation.
• We went to Delmarva's Taphouse for one of the last visits before they were closed for tax evasion.

April:

• We went to the Greenbrier Resort and were confused by modern slot machines.
• I made my own badminton net.
• I finished my first Coursera class, which was somewhere between "bad" and "not good".

May:

• We planted some more tomatoes, which quickly overshadowed a useless pepper plant.
• Rebecca went to Columbus for a weekend while I played ultimate frisbee.
• We had our first of two barbeques for the year.

June:

• We went to Taste of Reston with child-free Kathy.
• Rebecca had a birthday dinner with Asian Fusion Pork.
• Rebecca went to yoga camp in Massachusetts, and then we met to go camping in Pennsylvania.

July:

• We finally saw Anna's parents again in Colonial Beach.
• We took out a second mortgage to eat tapas at Mokomandy with Marc.
• I tried out Wildstar, which didn't last.

August:

• We had a barbeque with the Newdorfs and Ahlbins.
• We saw Jim Gaffigan at Wolf Trap.
• Rebecca got a new laptop to replace the one made out of stone.

September:

• We went to Beach Week in Kill Devil Hills with the Jacksons and many others.
• I arranged Tenting Tonight for brass quintet.
• Rebecca went to Ocean City with the girls, and I taught the Ahlbins how to play Gloom.

October:

• I lost my FitBit in Harper's Ferry, on the occasion of our fifth anniversary.
• We played a weird German boardgame at the Smiths.
• We took a whirlwind tour of Seattle and its environs.

November:

• Mike of (Mike and Ghost Chompy) came out to visit us from the West.
• We learned how to play Dungeons and Dragons.
• We had one fake Thanksgiving and two real ones.
• I started playing the trumpet again for about 15 minutes a day (so more than most undergraduate music ed majors).

How was 2014 for you?

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