Stick a Fork in it. This One is Done.

2005. What can you say about it that hasn't already been said by millions of others?

As I write this, I have already seen 2006 on TV in Melbourne, Australia. It is still 2005 here, but not for too many more hours. As I watched the new year come into Melbourne, I thought, gee, I am seeing the future. How many times can you honestly say, I can see into tomorrow? Of course it is easier looking into the past.

Personally, 2005 hasn't been too bad, all in all. My whole year has dealt with the new transmitter facility with the first 6 months completing the planning, traveling to potential vendors, then vendors, then training and then the last 6 months actually putting brick and stone and steel to ground and air and more training and then making new friends along the way. It has been a world wind ride with my 3 trips to Canada and the anticipation of finally seeing what Ross the Boss and I devised over the last 7 years really in steel and mortar and then starting to look to the future.

The time that I haven't been at home, the sleepless nights worrying over stupid stuff that always works itself out and the isolation from my fellow employees while I stay at the transmitter for weeks on end and not really seeing anyone from the studio other than Ross the Boss and missing out on things that happen there. Watching and hearing about the major events of the world after they happen, trying to scratch out some time for me and the misses and still keeping my sanity, or a piece of it anyway.

GOD! That sounds like a terrible year! But it hasn't been. It has allowed me to use some talents that have been in hibernation some 18 years, learn some new stuff, regain some appreciation of things and people, go places and do things that I would not have normally done, be a part of a technological revolution the like unseen in 60 years (something I had always dreamed about as a young broadcaster since it looked liked all of the new ground had been broken years before I was born) and believe it or not, enrich my life.

2005 started for me in late 2004 with trips to vendors and will end in 2006 when the analog transmitter moves over to the new facility around March for its final 3 years before all TV switches to digital, February 17, 2009. Remember the date.

So yeah, stick a fork in it, 2005 the year may be done, but 2006 is just the beginning of the rest of life. So "let's git 'er dun!"