1. What did you do in 2025 that you\u2019d never done before? Epic Universe
2. Did you keep your New Year\u2019s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Alright, we went to universal, that was easy. This year, maybe finally deploy ztapm in azure production for real
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Bushra
4. Did anyone close to you die? No
5. What countries did you visit? None
6. What would you like to have in 2026 that you lacked in 2025? Gonna go with job security again
7. What date from 2025 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? I can’t really think of any, but I guess the symposium in May and universal in November were pretty memorable
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Speaking at the software symposium.. again
9. What was your biggest failure? The dozen it so race conditions i didn’t conceive of
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? I have pernicious anemia, apparently
11. What was the best thing you bought? Express pass for Epic
14. Where did most of your money go? Universal
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Universal
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
l. happier or sadder? Happier
ll. thinner or fatter? Fatter
lll. richer or poorer? Richer
18. What do you wish you\u2019d done more of? Training
19. What do you wish you\u2019d done less of? Doom scrolling
20. How will you be spending Christmas? We went over Lyn’s and then our parents came over to our house Christmas day.
24. What was your favorite TV program? The Diplomat
26. What was the best book you read? Nothing really sticks out. Bob Iger’s book was kinda interesting. Here One Moment too.
28. What did you want and get? A prime spot at the software symposium. No one to be sick for universal
29. What did you want and not get? My coworkers to not getting laid off, fired. To work from home one or two days a week… Heck a month wouldn’t be bad
30. What was your favorite film of this year? I can’t remember watching any movies. I was going to watch wicked, but it wasn’t on peacock anymore.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? 40 I went to lunch with Rachelle. Did I do anything else?
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? If RTO wasn’t a thing
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2025? Colorful work clothes
34. What kept you sane? B12
35. Which celebrity\/public figure did you fancy the most? Facebook keeps showing me Michael McIntyre clips. He’s pretty funny.
36. What political issue stirred you the most? The most? I guess that our president is a despicable human being
37. Who did you miss? My coworkers
38. Who was the best new person you met? We’ll, I met Hanzala in person
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2025: being in the office is more important than doing good work
41. Summarize 2025: The kids take turns getting in trouble. We went to wild wood, Hershey, universal. I sang a lot, presented at the software symposium. Worked on ztapm. Went to the doctor a lot.
42. What are you most looking forward to next year? Disney!
43. What were your predictions last year? I didn’t make any because apparently I accidentally deleted these questions at some point, but I figured more people would leave ATT. Apparently In 2020 I really wanted to go to Disney and go back to the office. Oh, if I only knew
44. What are your predictions for 2026? CEOs and investors won’t shut up about AI. Owen says nothing will really change. I think we’ll get a big snow. We’re overdue. Bryan says we’ll get Mario Marker 3 next year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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