• I made a SCUL calendar, as I have done for eleven consecutive years.
• I received Best in Show and Staff Pick awards at Aresia.
• After twenty years of drinking heavily every night, I quit cold turkey and have not had a serious urge to drink in nearly a year.
• I made the decision to move the Fort, and pay 220% of what I was paying in order to live on my own, despite the fact I have not had a raise in over two years. I have managed to reduce frivolous spending to make this happen.
• I organized and led a massive campaign move and settle into the new fort, and thanked those who were a part of it.
• I managed to survive the serious side effects of alcohol withdrawal, including losing 35 pounds in one month (and keeping it off), having metaphysical panic attacks, and loss of vocabulary.
• I participated in Somerville Open Studios by completely transforming the apartment into a gallery after only a month and a half of living here.
• I survived a complete computer meltdown days before Aplhamission, including access to all my music, on MP3PO or any droid.
• I managed to roll with a major shift in SCUL culture, and was available and calm for any pilot who needed to talk, despite going through previously stated alcohol withdrawal.
• I worked on the SCUL field manual all year, and am very close to completing the first edition.
• Thanks to having my good friends, I have free welding facilities a short walk from the Fort.
• I hosted and taught a week long robot-welding class to a fourteen year old boy and his father.
• I was a real hit at Art Beat, and managed to throw a three hour dance party using only a Cloudbuster and some caution tape.
• Made peace with neighbors and got them informed about SCUL, respected their needs and got SCUL to do the same.
• Kept morale up all season, despite many many radiation filled Saturnights.
• Housed SCUL pilots on three separate occasions who were in need of shelter, totaling seven weeks.
• Took my art in a new direction with The Portal of Skunkatude.
• With the help of stalwart friends, moved a dentist chair our of a basement in Allston to Level 2 at the Fort, while healing from a serious stripper-pole induced rib injury, and a Cloudbuster crash the very night before. That on top of piloting Cloudbuster to and from Winthrop by the Sea.
• With the help of Paywaket, Retard and Zipcar, moved eight full-sized metal card catalog cabinets from a basement in Andover to the backyard.
• Moving all eight cabinets by myself to Level 2 in one day, knocking off my big toenail off while lifting the first cabinet at the bottom of the stairs.
• Redesigned the SCUL logo.
• Completely rewrote my secret code, made it read vertically, and immediately implemented it my journal without any practice.
• Managed to expand my talents at work, really growing into the role of graphic designer.
• Brought in about a dozen new pilots, embroidered their colors, got to know them so they really are in SCUL.
• Hosted SCUL every Saturnight for six months (with the exception of two nights), which I have been doing for over ten years.
• Hosted MRC many of those afternoons, as I have done for over ten years. I used to do all of them, and they were six hours long, right before the SCUL mission prep began.
• Was available for welding from all pilots who requested it, and managed to participate in some miraculously fast repairs.
• Kept Cloudbuster in the air for nearly the entire season, despite two consecutive structural failures, five consecutive primary thruster failures. Keep in mind the ship is about 200 pounds. Cloudbuster also suffered two sonic disruptor dish meltdowns, and three landing gear failures, resulting in serious damage to the Disco Deth Stah), and premature warp core drain.  It was also completely rewired and given a new paint job.
• Made popcorn for the pilots after the mission. I know it’s not much, but I’m proud of it anyways.
• Rode Cloudbuster from Providence to Home, taking nine grueling hours after spending the day in Providence.
• Made a box for the Nave.
• Turned forty.
• Hosted a roller skating party for above.
• Determined medal-winners, and created nine trophies for SCUL pilots, and gave them out on the field during a rainstorm on a heavily-populated slow-moving fleet on Omega mission, and managed not to cry.
• Managed to close the season without season burnout, which I’ve been known to do every year. In yo’ FACE!
• Managed to stay out of debt, despite the fact I was spending $8.50 and two hours and ten minutes each day on cigarettes.
• Quit smoking. Which is why I’m irritable about all I had to go through this year to accomplish all this.

I think I feel a little better. Not sure until I eat something.