So far, 2015 has been all right. The year started with Grand Prix Denver, where I last-minute audibled to Siege Rhino and made my first GP day 2 in 18 months but finished 9-6 and outside of the money.
My birthday happened and my work friends were awesome and took me out to downtown Denver for Grimaldi's pizza and dessert. (A very fancy ice-cream filled chocolate egg that's dropped onto a platter.)
GP San Jose (Team Sealed format with some awesome teammates) happened where we missed day 2 after a 6-1 start but got to watch the Super Bowl in San Jose while ordering beer by the gallon. We shared 3 gallons of beer between 6 people, then proceeded to get the entire bar involved in the punching bag game for about an hour after the Super Bowl ended in unspectacular fashion.
Also starting to cook a little more often than the past few years. Work friends hosted a wine tasting party where I was assigned to bring a pinot noir and appropriate pairing food, so I baked some Asian salmon to share. We (the software engineers) decided to buy tuxedo t-shirts to wear to the event since the non-engineers wanted to dress up in actual cocktail attire and look classy.
Other highlights in the first two months of 2015:
- Started playing chess, mainly on Chess With Friends. Started 0-4 and now I'm 10-9, but I think I'm about to lose a few games.
- Saw some friends from high school, including one that I haven't seen in 9 years. I think it's fun to reconnect with old friends from time to time, mainly because in some ways we are the same people who we were in high school but in other ways we've changed so much.
- Got stuck in an elevator.
- Got stuck in a Denver lightrail train with the train stopped on a sideways incline.
- Got to play some pickup soccer in February. Not only was it February, but it was 75 degrees and sunny outdoors.
