2013 was a challenge on many fronts. There was the obvious which brought many, many ramifications with it. It was also a year filled with fun, family, and accomplishments I’m proud of. Inspired by Steve, I’m putting together my first year in review post featuring photos.

It all started well with the first thorough cleaning I’d given my office in years.

We took a family trip to Hawaii at the end of January.

Little did I know that I had emergency surgery waiting for me when I returned. My team was very supportive and kept everything humming along nicely at Crowd Favorite while I was out of commission.

The doctors cleared me to go on our planned family trip to Tucson at the end of February. I had to take a wheelchair through the airport on the way out, but was able to walk well enough not to need one on the way back.

By late March I was well enough to get in a half day of snowboarding.

In April I was doing a little soccer practice with my daughter.

We got one of our classic snow dustings in April. I had to pull over and take a photo – I live in a beautiful part of the country.

My daughter turned 4 in late April.

I pretty much was back in the swing of things at the office in May, and enjoying being downtown again.

I was also able to start swinging a golf club again.

We got back up to the mountains in June

and I took my daughter to a baseball game (we made it to the 7th inning).

Later that month, I attended OwnerCamp – what a great experience.

My golf game was in good enough shape to participate in the Junior Achievement charity tournament.

A few weeks later, I followed that up with a week off from chemo and a family trip to Minnesota.

I made it out to WordCamp San Francisco and participated on a business panel while I was there.

We made it back up to the mountains in August.

I launched a redesigned version of GameTonight? at the end of the month.

In September, my friend golf buddy Jim came over and taught me how to make a pie. I’m due to give it a try on my own.

September was the end of my first round of chemo. I spent some time getting my golf game in shape

then joined 8 friends on a weekend golf trip to Myrtle Beach.

I had a busy travel schedule in October. Enjoying my break from chemo, I first headed east for my third annual Monktoberfest and a weekend in Freeport, ME.

I followed that up with Pressnomics

and a weekend trip to Vegas.

In November, Karim and I were well into discussions to bring VeloMedia and Crowd Favorite together.

The deal was announced just before WordCamp Denver.

I started up with chemo again in November, but it was scheduled so that were we able to have a great family Thanksgiving.

In mid-December, we went up to the mountains for a little early season snowboarding and sledding.

Over the Christmas holiday, we were able to have both sides of our family join us in Denver.

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I’ve run the numbers for my site again this year (the code is available here). I ended up with exactly the same number of posts as I had in 2012; nearly 3 posts per day. If I exclude photo and status posts, my average post length is 693 words, down a little from 1014 words last year. I’m going to say that being a little more concise is probably a good thing.

My site with FavePersonal is continuing to serve me as I want it to. I’m posting more frequently, a wider variety of content, participating on Facebook and Twitter, and owning my online identity and data.

Year	Posts	Avg. Length	Total Length	Comments (Mine)
2013	1,066	239	255,101	2,632 (77)
2012	1,066	308	328,544	1,645 (106)
2011	936	375	350,543	1,179 (93)
2010	732	604	442,427	1,037 (92)
2009	902	413	372,081	1,743 (109)
2008	1,096	335	367,283	2,394 (151)
2007	1,627	437	711,071	3,619 (276)
2006	555	1,697	942,003	2,921 (442)
2005	496	1,397	692,791	2,445 (438)
2004	635	1,090	692,353	2,188 (523)
2003	659	721	474,960	641 (227)
2002	71	784	55,667	40 (30)

This post is part of the thread: Year in Review – an ongoing story on this site. View the thread timeline for more context on this post.