What a Year

It’s now February 2016, almost a year to the day that Samuel was born, and things are only just beginning to slow down enough to actually gather my thoughts from the last twelve months.

I always knew that 2015 was going to be a stand-out year: fatherhood was imminent, and I had some sense of what that might mean. I had no idea just how much of a year it would actually be.

January brought a mandatory period of abstinence from alcohol: partly due to the usual Christmas excess, but mainly because we were on-call for a trip to the hospital at any moment. In the early hours, that became very real. Contractions started. I worked from home through the day keeping a close eye on things, and then at 18:20 everything shifted.

The next morning, my little boy was born. From that moment, everything changed.

The other significant event of the year was leaving Code Computerlove after just over seven and a half years, to join Zuto. Still front-end, but a different context, working as part of a dedicated in-house team rather than building things for one. It was a bigger move than I expected, in every sense.

Two enormous things in twelve months. The rest of it (the quieter stuff, the adjustments, the things that don’t have neat summaries) that’s harder to write about, and probably not for here.

Wow. What a year.