A decade in review

• 2000:  The most redeeming feature of this year was to no longer hear anything about Y2K.  As I predicted, it was a lot of mass hysteria over a manufactured problem.  One of my co-workers who seemed otherwise relatively level-headed, was convinced a cataclysm would befall mankind when the clock struck twelve, so I relished in asking him why he wasn't in his bunker in January.  Man, I can be a jerk sometimes.  OK, a lot of the time.  I also broke up with my girlfriend "Ginger" shortly after visiting my best friend "Enrique" and meeting his future wife "Maria".  I was afforded an opportunity to repair some damage done to my friendship with my other best friend, "Anna", when she came to the States for her cousin's wedding.  And who could forget the election of 2000?
• 2001:  The election fiasco was finally resolved when the SCOTUS stepped in and pointed out to interested parties how you can't observe different standards for a recount in different counties in the same state, and how a lower court can't ignore their state's constitution because their guy is losing in the recount.  9/11, strip clubs, a return to Germany.  A Christmas in Minnesota.
  
• 2002:  The strike, hot and muggy summer days, and a winter wedding in Puerto Rico (not mine).  Learning to fly.  Finishing a friend's basement.  Saying goodbye to Crusader.  Surviving a layoff.  Wellstone's plane crash (yes, you morons, it was an accident.  Nothing nefarious).  Most memorable was meeting and falling in love with Tawny.
• 2003:  The couple's road trip to D.C.  Fernando's first marriage to "Kianna", aka "The Psychopath".  Whiskey. 
  
• 2004:  My first house.  Living together.  Goodbye to the apartments.
• 2005:  Tawny finishes law school and passes the bar exam on the first try.  A name change for my company.
• 2006:  Introducing Cosmo.  Enrique and Maria have a baby girl.  Goodbye, Grandpa.  The prototype is ready one month early.  Christmas in North Carolina.  Introducing Zippy.
  
• 2007:  Goodbye, Whiskey.  Cosmo begins Agility.  Introducing Morgan.  Introducing Bailey.  Farewell, Dell.  Christmas in Florida.  A room with a view of the Atlantic.
  
• 2008:  Teaching Agility.  Hoppy Hour.  Taking the reins.  Christmas in Minnesota.
  
• 2009:  Expanding Agility.  Building new equipment.  Goodbye, Cosmo.  Introducing Goose and Dori.  Bonding Morgan and Bailey.  Goodbye, Shirley.  Paid Administrative Leave.  Road trip.  Visiting Grandma.  RIF.  Job placement.  Tawny's new apartment.  The team scatters.  A move is in the future.