{"id":410,"date":"2009-01-01T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T18:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/?p=410"},"modified":"2009-01-01T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T18:33:39","slug":"goodbye-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2009\/01\/01\/goodbye-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Family room by Kim Siever, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kmsiever\/2640149542\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3066\/2640149542_5e4a380d3e.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"Family room\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another year&#8217;s gone by, and it&#8217;s been one of a few accomplishments for me. Here&#8217;s what I did:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bought a Mac<\/li>\n<li>Bought an iPod Touch<\/li>\n<li>Started my fourth year as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/05\/22\/new-calling\/\">elders quorum president<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Redesigned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/\">my website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Built a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kmsiever\/3138798913\/\">snow fort<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kmsiever\/2560195680\/in\/set-72157601957544573\/\">our basement renovated<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kmsiever\/sets\/72157606841838432\/\">Whoop-Up Days<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kmsiever\/sets\/72157607564283855\/\">Calgary Zoo<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kmsiever\/sets\/72157607188666410\/\">Lethbridge Corn Maze<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Managed to keep 2008 a stay-in-Lethbridge year<\/li>\n<li>Got back on the Board of Directors for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artslethbridge.org\/\">Allied Arts Council<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lost <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/archives\/2008\/11\/apollo\/\">my dog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What did you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year&#8217;s gone by, and it&#8217;s been one of a few accomplishments for me. Here&#8217;s what I did: Bought a Mac Bought an iPod Touch Started my fourth year as elders quorum president Redesigned my website Built a snow fort Got our basement renovated Attended Whoop-Up Days Went to the Calgary Zoo Went to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-6C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2997,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2016\/11\/19\/hack\/","url_meta":{"origin":410,"position":0},"title":"Hack","author":"Kim Siever","date":"19 November 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I once looked up from where I sat and saw my shelf seemed odd. 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