End-of-Year Survey, 2014 in Trichotomy

Happy New Year. I figure I’d do this first before posting an actual entry…

1. What did you do in 2014 that you’d never done before?
   
   Go on a river cruise. Perform with one hand at Carnegie Hall. Pilot a cardboard boat. Had a rat sneeze rat snot all over my face.
   
   

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
   
   Did not make resolutions.
   
   

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
   
   Lovely Girl had a second baby.
   
   

4. Did anyone close to you die?
   
   Thank goodness no.
   
   

5. What countries did you visit?
   
   Just on the river cruise… Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands.
   
   

6. Where did you go on vacation?
   
   The Danube, the Main, and the Rhine rivers. Also, Binghamton NY for visits.
   
   

7. What would you like to have in 2015 that you lacked in 2014?
   
   I still want a duplex penthouse on Upper West Side.
   
   

8. What date from 2014 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
   
   I can still remember the stress of closing a show with one-handed Chopin Etude, so that was memorable. The river cruise involved many days of hiking and running around old castles and cathedrals, but they tend to blend together.
   
   

9. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
   
   Not getting fired.
   
   

10. What was your biggest failure?
    
    La Professeure would probably want me to helping out around the house?
    
    

11. Did you suffer illness or injury?
    
    I am starting to get more frequent gum inflammations lately.
    
    

12. What was the best thing you bought?
    
    It’s technically La Professeure’s purchase, but I am using the Big-screen TV most of the time.
    
    

13. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
    
    La Professeure. Also, the Treasurer.
    
    

14. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
    
    The Boko Haram.
    
    

15. Where did most of your money go?
    
    Mortgage.
    
    

16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
    
    The Honeymoon. Also, the Les Miserable concert the Treasurer put together.
    
    

17. What song will always remind you of 2014?
    
    The one-handed Revolutionary Etude. The Blue Danube Waltz they kept playing it on the tour bus and on the ship.
    
    

18. Compared to this time last year, are you:
    
    i. happier or sadder? Happier
    
    ii. thinner or fatter? I gained about 5 pounds on the week after the cruise.
    
    iii. richer or poorer? Richer, I think.
    
    iv. older or wiser? Older, but not wiser.
    
    

19. What do you wish you’d done more of?
    
    OD
    
    

20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
    
    Watch TV.
    
    

21. How did you spend Christmas?
    
    With La Professeure and family
    
    

22. Did you fall in love in 2014?
    
    With the right person you fall in love over and over again.
    
    

23. How many one-night stands?
    
    None
    
    

24. What was your favourite TV program?
    
    BBC’s Match of the Day.
    
    

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
    
    No.
    
    

26. Who is someone you will probably never see again after this year?
    
    Probably some of the passengers on our cruise ship.
    
    

27. What was the best book you read?
    
    I don’t think I read one single book this year.
    
    

28. What was your greatest musical discovery?
    
    Contemporary jazz singers… there are so many of them.
    
    

29. What did you want and get?
    
    A raise.
    
    

30. What did you want and not get?
    
    Penthouse duplex condo on the upper west side.
    
    

31. What was your favourite film of this year?
    
    Particle fever.
    
    

32. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
    
    I think I worked. I turned 37. Or, in Hexadecimal, 25.
    
    

33. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
    
    A shorter commute.
    
    

34. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2014?
    
    Bum with a wife desperately to make him look half-way presentable.
    
    

35. What kept you sane?
    
    La Professeure, Petra, Ballroom dancing.
    
    

36. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
    
    No one really.
    
    

37. Who did you miss?
    
    No one really.
    
    

38. Who was the best new person you met?
    
    Singers from the Treasurer’s production of Les Miserable.
    
    

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2014:
    
    You have to overreach to know where your limits are.
    
    

40. Tell us something you’ve learned about yourself:
    
    I like river cruises.
    
    

41. If you could relive any day from 2014, which would it be and why?
    
    Probably the day we spent in Vienna.
    
    

42. Did any of your predictions for the future come true in 2014?
    
    Did not make predictions
    
    

43. What was the funniest thing that happened to you this year?
    
    Winning a cardboard boat race during the company retreat, while completely convinced my boat was going to sink.
    
    

44. What was the worst thing that happened to you this year?
    
    Henrietta the rat got mammalian tumor. Scary for a while.
    
    

45. What was the best thing that happened to you this year?
    
    Still having a social life?
    
    

46. What was the hardest thing you did this year?
    
    Perform one-handed at Carnegie Hall.
    
    

47. A new food that you were introduced to:
    
    Sacher torte.
    
    

48. What traditions were started?
    
    Watching the Big-Ass TV every night.
    
    

49. What traditions were broken?
    
    Posting on OpenDiary. I will miss it.
    
    

50. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
    
    It’s going to be alright.
    
    

51. Did you save any Chinese fortune cookie fortunes from this year, what do they say?
    
    Don’t eat Chinese.
    
    

52. What is something you have vowed to never do again?
    
    Leave the garage door open overnight.
    
    

53. Headlines in the news from this year that you’ll remember most:
    
    Malaysia Airlines flight 17 getting shot down.
    
    

54. What is something you took for granted in 2014?
    
    Good health.
    
    

55. Are there any memorable slogans that describe and/or are from this year?
    “Explore the World in Comfort.”
    
    

56. What will you be doing this New Years’ Eve?
    
    Watching the Big Ass TV with La Professeure.
    
    

57. Where were you last New Years’ Day (2014)?
    
    At home; playing Telestration with Developmental Psychologist and her friend.
    
    

Last updated January 11, 2015