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Should have done this a week ago, of course, but better late than never. I was struck last week by how many people wrote things in their LJs like: "Good riddance to 2005!" and "Hope 2006 will be better than 2005 was. It couldn't get much worse." Seems like last year was double plus ungood for a lot of people. For me, I think that 2005 was a hard year, but not necessarily a bad one. Lots of bad stuff did happen (e.g. stolen car, my job situation, losing a cat), but lots of good things happened, too (e.g. visiting Earthships with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
resouceress for our fifth anniversary, my thirtieth birthday party, new relationship with cassiopia, vacationing in Buenos Aires with cheshcat). With effort, some of the bad things were turned into good things, like finding a good deal on an Infiniti after the Stratus was stolen... then recovering the Stratus, too, or getting a job offer from the University of Oxford after my situation at work. Certainly, with the move to England pending, I can be sure that 2006 will be very different from 2005.
That said, here are some relevant statistics for the year that just ended. I doubt that anyone but me will care about such details... but I do care, and that is reason enough. So here they are:
Other random tidbits of relevance:
As I said earlier, 2006 will surely be very different from 2005. Will be interesting to come back in a year's time and compare the relevant stats from these two years...
resouceress for our fifth anniversary, my thirtieth birthday party, new relationship with cassiopia, vacationing in Buenos Aires with cheshcat). With effort, some of the bad things were turned into good things, like finding a good deal on an Infiniti after the Stratus was stolen... then recovering the Stratus, too, or getting a job offer from the University of Oxford after my situation at work. Certainly, with the move to England pending, I can be sure that 2006 will be very different from 2005.That said, here are some relevant statistics for the year that just ended. I doubt that anyone but me will care about such details... but I do care, and that is reason enough. So here they are:
- Number of days spent away from home: 195
- Percentage of year spent away from home: 53.4%
- Number of commercial flights: 33 (second only to the 34 that I flew in 2004)
- Miles flew: Approximately 81,000
- Average airspeed: 9.25 miles per hour
- International trips: 5 (three to Argentina, one to India, one to Canada)
- Countries I spent time in: 4 (USA, Argentina, India, Canada)
- States I spent time in: seventeen
In chronological order (first visit only):
Connecticut
New Jersey
Illinois
New Mexico
Utah
Arizona
Kentucky
Wisconsin
New York
Colorado
Georgia
Michigan
Nebraska
Florida
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts - Number of long road trips (long == between 800 and 2000 miles): 5
- Sci-Fi conventions attended: Sorta one (Congenial)
Other random tidbits of relevance:
- Drove two cars (Pazu and Lucretia II) past the 100,000 mile mark.
- Went skydiving
As I said earlier, 2006 will surely be very different from 2005. Will be interesting to come back in a year's time and compare the relevant stats from these two years...
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