I don't plan an exhaustive rundown on all of the highlights / lowlights of 2013.
Highlights of 2013
- Reaching our 20 year wedding anniversary.
- Reaching 3 years / 1096 days sober.
- Seeing the following in person:
- The Harlem Globetrotters at the iWireless Center with the entire family
- Shinedown / Three Days Grace / POD at the iWireless Center with Kevin
- Multiple Iowa Hawkeye basketball games with Alex
- Shinedown / Skillet / Papa Roach / In This Moment /We as Human at the US Cellular Center with Alex
- Multiple Iowa Hawkeye football games with Alex
- Saxon & others in Cedar Falls with Kevin
- Bayside in Des Moines with Megan
- Gene Hoglan drum clinic with Alex
- Playing not one, but TWO gigs with Lou's Classic Ride.
- Completing another excellent year at my employer.
- Achievements of the kids:
- Alex earning a spot on the Iowa City West freshman basketball team
- Megan earning a spot on the Iowa Ambassadors of Music European tour.
Likely Highlights of 2014
- Reaching our 21 year wedding anniversary.
- Reaching 4 years / 1461 days sober.
- Seeing the following in person:
- Skillet & others at the iWireless Center with Alex
- Bayside, if they add an Iowa date in 2014 with Megan
- Metallica, if they tour *anywhere* close to Iowa.
- Playing more than two gigs with Lou's Classic Ride
- Completing another excellent year at my employer
- Achievements of the kids:
- Alex making the Iowa City West sophomore basketball team.
- Megan going on tour in Europe with the Iowa Ambassadors of Music tour in July 2014
- Completing the reconversion of my 4000ish CDs
Lowlights of 2013
- Numerous funerals and wakes
- Experiencing a hard drive failure with my 63,000+ music files
- Not producing music reviews
- Not seeing friends nearly enough
- not an exhaustive list, but off the top of my head
- Serbi
- Brian Rock
- James
- JR
- John / Yvonne
- Bill / Debbie
- Dave / Cindy
- any member of the MMC group
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