2017 in review
• Played around in the dirt with an excavator
• Tried sensory deprivation tanks
• Rebuilt fermenters at Cleophus Quealy brewery
• Watched the new Twin Peaks
• Our kayak nearly got toppled by a whale and her baby
• Got retweeted by @georgehtakei
• Many nights in the hot tub with a dram of something delicious
• Survived an FDA inspection
• Ran around drunk in bridal dresses
• Only set the pinball table on fire once
• Quit my job, and became a consultant and went back to school full-time
• Learned how to make chocolate from scratch (starting with roasting the raw beans)
• My cactus shot up a 30-foot stalk and then died
• Played with adorable home robots
• Took Mum to see Book of Mormon
• Found three-armed Pucci shirts
• Harvested fresh hops and promptly brewed beer with them
• Saw an eclipse
• That bottle of Bruichladdich Fies Ile we shared in the middle of the Jura Paps with our backs to the horizontal wind and rain
• Accidentally giving Mike McCready from Pearl Jam my friend’s joke
• Drank a lot of beer
• Ed from Barenaked Ladies sang me happy birthday
• Rode in a stunt plane and did all the flips and barrel rolls
• Wrestled in Jello
• Learned a bit about real cameras
• Changed my middle name
• Dressed up the lawn dinosaur
• Learned 3D printing and laser etching
• Hung out with my statistically significant others
• Bought an Apple Watch
• Went rock climbing in Joshua Tree
• Rode a mechanical bull
• Learned a crap-ton about electronics
• Did a real pull-up
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