1. What did you do in 2017 that you’d never done before? Went to Disneyland!
2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Last year I wanted to find an awesome assignment and jump in, I found two! Wish I could have stayed on Q longer, but this machine learning stuff is cool too. I wanted to finish learning Spring, um… I got distracted with machine learning and I wanted to clean this house at some point which never happened. This year I need to find a new home for all of my office “friends,” probably in my basement. I really want to do that free class on deep learning, but we’ll see if I get to that.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Carolyn and Julia! And hopefully Rachi right before the very end of the year.
4. Did anyone close to you die? no
5. What countries did you visit? None
6. What would you like to have in 2018 that you lacked in 2017? last year I wanted the energy to learn new things, which is kinda awesome, because I did :D Next year I want more baby snuggle time. I haven’t even met Julia’s baby yet!
7. What date from 2017 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? I cant think of anything really
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? My Machine Learning Nano Degree. I also got a progression this year.
9. What was your biggest failure?
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Oh God, that stomach virus
11. What was the best thing you bought? gymnastic classes for Owen
14. Where did most of your money go? Disney trips
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Disneyland
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
l. happier or sadder? happier
ll. thinner or fatter? fatter
lll. richer or poorer? little richer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of? singing
19. What do you wish you’d done less of? Facebook
20. How will you be spending Christmas? they all coming here
24. What was your favorite TV program? The Good Place. First time I saw it, I was all, meh but it gets really good. I’m also liking Crazy Ex Girlfriend
26. What was the best book you read? Did I read any his year?
28. What did you want and get? a machine learning assignment and the Q assignment actually
29. What did you want and not get? A good price on the flight to Disney next year? But at least we don’t have to fly United
30. What was your favorite film of this year? Coco
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I probably did something… playground with Julia and Carolyn? Was that this year?
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? I don’t know, it was a pretty great year… think the only thing that could have been better is if Small World was open when we went to Disney
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2017? still stitch fix
34. What kept you sane? my treadmill desk
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?  No one in particular I don’t think
36. What political issue stirred you the most? Where do I start… everything this stupid administration has done so far?
37. Who did you miss? My friends
38. Who was the best new person you met? like everyone on the Q team, I miss those guys
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2017: Always assume there could be mice. Yeah, no, I don’t want to talk about it.
41. Summarize 2017: It’s a good thing things are going so well at work, otherwise this presidency might be enough to drive me insane
42. What are you most looking forward to next year? Disney again? ha ha
43. What were your predictions last year? Ha ha, we are finally weaned, Trump is slowly but surely destroying the country and there are lots of babies.
44. What are your predictions for 2018: Next year… I get the feeling we’ll move into our new office space really late in the year and everything will be nuts before that and One Team is going to go crazy trying to plan stuff with everyone all over the place.