It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times

In this thread, name your personal best and worst experience of 2006. Or alternatively, you can name the best and worst real events, movies, games, whatever. I'll be sticking with the former.

It was a good year for:

Jobs. After nearly 12 months of being unemployed, sending hundreds of resumes, going to unsuccessful interviews, I finally got a callback for some work. It wasn't until afterwards that I realized what a great job I had. Sure, filing papers in a small office can get dull or monotonous, but I have my own computer, everyone there is very nice and approchable, I can change my schedule anytime, they close during holidays (and I get paid for those days off!).....this job was definetely the best thing to happen to me this year.

The runner-up was being able to reserve the PS3, then casually walking into the store and picking one up without camping in the freezing rain or getting mugged.

It was a bad year for:

Technology. It was one material disaster after another. My year old CRT HDTV displayed some nasty blotches after being moved during remodeling, causing me to seek out a new TV. I thought I hit the jackpot with a Westinghouse 37" LCD with 1080p, but I soon took notice of the horrible color banding issue. Fortunately I finally settled on the amazing Samsung 40" LCD, and haven't regretted it since.

But then between dropping my camera (the good news; it was under warranty and the repairs were free), my keyboard controller crapping out, and even getting a freaking dead pixel on my DS Lite (again, the good news was it only took a day to exchange), it's been a really shitty year technology-wise. I also failed to acquire the Wii today, as if God wanted to drop one more technological failure before the year was done. Almost makes me want to take the hermit route.

How ya doing, buddy?