Just wanted to take a moment to think about what I’m thankful for this year.  This year has been absolutely AMAZING for me and I hope it has been for you as well.  So many awesome things happened this year that I am immensely grateful for including:

• an adventurous trip to Chicago for MWC to qualify for SBO ‘08 with Justin Wong and kofiend
• an amazing trip to Japan for SBO ‘08 where we actually won a match!!
• Street Fighter 4 being released and being a great game
• getting featured on the front page of Shoryuken for the podcast with Alex Valle
• getting featured on the Capcom Unity blog
• getting featured in an article in Hardcore Gamer magazine
• people I’ve never met saying hi to me at the arcade because they’ve visited this site
• putting out an ebook about Street Fighter 4
• having Triumvir and Lizard Lick sponsor this site!

So that’s a short list of great things that happened this year, here’s a short list of people I am grateful to:

• everyone who visits this site and listens to the podcast and leaves comments!
• Justin Wong & kofiend for having me on the SBO team
• John Choi for organizing the donations to help us with plane tickets to Japan
• everyone who donated directly to this site to help us pay for plane tickets to Japan
• Seth and keits for featuring my stuff on the front page of SRK and the Capcom Unity blog
• all of the guests that I’ve had on the podcast
• everyone who came up to me to say hi because of this site
• everybody who had a hand in making Street Fighter 4 a reality
• everyone who downloaded the ebook
• everyone who has adopted Street Fighter 4 as their new favorite game!
• the whole Triumvir crew for being so awesome!

So big thank yous to everyone, it’s been a fantastic year!  So many good times, lots of new friends and faces, 2009 is going to be OUR YEAR!