At the end of 2002 I said I need to stretch more, read more, program more, travel more, and I left 2002 with a giant cliff hanger -- my Loft project. 2003 ended up being a year of major changes. The Loft project is phase one completed. Moving from the burbs to downtown, selling a house that I was quite fond of in a tricky real estate market, shedding 2/3 of my possession, are major changes indeed. While on the subject of materialism, I finally gave up on the Germans, or at least on the German cars. The Audi has been giving me silly trouble and expensive and long repairs. I switched back to the Japanese. Great value, great service.

...more to come...

Happy New Year !