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 Day 1
Question: Describe a significant experience that has happened in the past year. How did it affect you? Are you grateful? Relieved? Resentful? Inspired?
Answer:

the last year recap

 

Pre-Rosh Hashanah

 

The last derbycon (still haven't gotten my black badge)

Cross country road trip, grateful

BSidesEdmonton speaker (video never released), meh

Defendcon, was awesome, grateful

 

Post-Rosh Hashanah

 

Meeting render's grandmother

Shellcon speaker and time with Zach, grateful though next time more time after than before

Canadian Thanksgiving is nothing like US thanksgiving

BSidesDC speaker, enjoyed seeing friends

My wedding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG9YkaVJ3Pk glad he finally gave in, though he's revised the story in his head

Getting really into pokemon go and animal crossing new horizons, then forgetting they existed when i got busy

Road trip adventure to montana to export and import my car with my father in law, relieved it's over, perhaps i should have sold and repurchased but it allowed me to do the road trip and bring rex the dinosaur into canada

Importing everything i owned, relieved it's over

Nearly wanting a divorce at the way he reacted to my stuff arriving

Still being angry knowing how much stuff was intentionally, and unintentionally trashed by him

Being home for US thanksgiving and friendsgiving with Anna, grateful

AWS in las vegas and cleaning up the storage unit

Scotland with mylan and yaffa for new years, grateful

Shmoocon, wish we had seen more friends, never enough time

Time in LA for Gallifrey and seeing mom, not realizing this would be the last time of the before times

Picking up a local D&D group

Slacks so many surgeries, and her passing, sad we didn't get a second opinion earlier and we couldn't help her

Running a D&D campaign

Canceled trips to lake tahoe (linux foundation summit speaker), prague, amsterdam, sweeden, alaska (disney cruise honeymoon)

COVID, lockdown, now at 7 months of only leaving for dentist, groceries, apple warranty repair

The new things that popped up in the space - #FancyFriday with Alyssa, Cocktail Con with Johnny and Carl, Hacker Tea with Lawyer Liz

New roof

Having to delay our wedding

HOPE, GenCon, BlackHat, HackerOne, Defcon virtual, not the same, I ran a little Hacker Prom and render won jeopardy again

Diana Initiative as co-COO, so exhausting and 2 whole weeks before spent 24/7

Render losing his job, again

Today, the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, devastated

 

I think in general though whats the things the most impacting?

COVID, Trump, BLM protests and their lack of progress against the system, still angry about the way render handled my stuff in storage and when it arrived. i'm run down, exhausted, burnt out, depressed, and so is everyone else. It's been blow after blow this year of things we would all have prior thought unthinkable, improbable, impossible. But, apparently there are no checks and balances.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020

https://nypost.com/list/major-2020-events/

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/07/world/2020-year-in-review-july/

 

that doesn't include murder hornets, the many hurricanes this month (nearly record setting), colorado being both on fire and snowing, the near record wildfires in the western USA
 

Supplemental Question: Describe an experience from before the COVID-19 pandemic that may now feel like it belongs to another world entirely. When you think about it, how do you feel?
Answer:
Anything, everything, is part of the "before times" - I am not sure things will ever go back, and I miss them. Unlimited cheap international travel, seeing friends, sharing drinks and food, not wearing masks, getting my hair and nails done, eating in restaurants. I am exhausted and depressed.