Happy New Year, 2024 – 2025

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Carmelo

2024 was a really good year for us. We did quite a few noteworthy things.

  1. Went to Barret Jackson
  2. Had monthly dinners with Damien
  3. Had monthly lunches or happy hours with some of my CSAA homies
  4. Went to Tempe library-con
  5. Karaoke party with southwest vocal alliance
  6. Attended Gallifrey 1, we met Billie Piper and Annette Badland
  7. Went to Tampa with my work team, met with John and Family and ran into Rob Cain
  8. Played at the Glendale Folk Festival
  9. Checked out the Phoenix Scottish Fest, hung with AZ Tardis people
  10. Celebrated Berlin’s sweet 16
  11. Went to the Aloha Festival
  12. Cool camping in our RV, Ren Fest
  13. My friend Greg passed away
  14. Cool brunch with friends for Mariah’s
  15. Went to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain again
  16. Rocked out at the Primus, Puscifer, and a Perfect Circle concert, with coworker, Nick
  17. Had a work DE and IR team meeting in Phoenix
  18. Time in Montreal with mom, my friends, and celebrate mom’s birthday
  19. Flight to SFO for RSA to hang with work team
  20. Awesome cosplay at Fan Fusion, Jaime met Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
  21. Last Ukulele meetup at Sam Ash :(
  22. Attended the Splunk conf in vegas!
  23. Lake day with DJ, Sam, and Melissa
  24. Had a 4th of July party at our house
  25. Mad Monster, met Cereal Killer, Matthew Lillard from Hackers
  26. Celebrated Angela’s bday
  27. Met with Aric and spoke to his son on the future
  28. Had to let people at work go :( 
  29. Had lunch with Courtney and Jolyn
  30. Tucson comic-con, met and had photos with Doug Jones
  31. Indoor skydiving with DJ and Sam
  32. Failed lake day but pool day!
  33. Met with my team for happy hour
  34. Nashville trip with work team
  35. Horror Fest, met with Phantom Phreak and Lord Nikon from Hackers
  36. Reconnected with my Uncle in the Philippines
  37. Three Dark Ones Parties
  38. Disney! Met Thomas from Magic with Thomas
  39. Fred Green’s new music release party, got to hang with the band
  40. Joint birthday dinner
  41. Wax-a-bear party
  42. Wicked watch party
  43. Thanksgiving
  44. Scottsdale Cybersecurity Summit with my CSAA homies
  45. Four Christmases!! and a new tattoo! Delia!
  46. Nutcracker ballet!
  47. and to end it all, a Evil End of Year Meeting for New Years Eve!

the End of the Year meeting was kind of nerdy and fun! We watched some Dr Horrible and we also got our calendars for 2025 all synced up.

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