*run the Pittsburgh marathon (any takers? May 6th)
*pass 2 more cert tests
*speak at least 1-2 times at a user group (batting .000 on that one now)
*find a topic to blog about that hasn’t been beaten to death and dig deep into it. As an inspiring blogger, I learn tons every week but it’s hard to find new ideas to blog about because I learn so much from other bloggers and just monitoring the #sqlhelp hashtag on twitter.

One thing that will be intersting this year is moving back to the states and seeing how the industry has changed since my time away from the states. Also finding a new position that is open to 2012 should be fun.

I don’t consider this “work” as it’d be my choice whether or not to take it on, but for me it’s group speaking.

I enjoy attending the Summit, watching online recorded sessions, and going to my local user’s group meetings. There are a lot of people that are very good at presenting, yourself included Brent But I break out in sweat at the thought of me being the one up there.

Last year our user’s group put on a lightning talks night, and I had my 5 minutes of terror. After it was done I had a good time, but I can’t imagine extending that out to an hour or more. I’d be a nervous wreck for weeks.

Come to think of it, I’d rather face a server on fire than be in front of a room full of DBAs!!