wistful posts episode VI: a new hope
i promised you there would be only three of these (first, second), so this is the last one.
one year ago. carrie and i were on our second, and final, trip back east. we had just driven from arkansas to nashville, spent a day in nashville, and had dinner with friends in kentucky. then we drove to buffalo.
everything up to this point had been new; i had just traveled through a dozen states i’d never even visited before. it was a homecoming, of sorts, but it felt surreal. it was like turning a page in a book and realizing the chapter ends on the facing side.
i really need to quit with these analogies, but they’re just too fitting. so here we go with the title: a new hope.
(yes, another Star Wars reference, that’s why the third post is episode #6. don’t ask me, ask george lucas!)
in one week, god (and bank) willing, we close on a house in the monadnock region of new hampshire.
what we write from here is uncertain. we have an outline. but i suspect: there will be comedy, and there will be tragedy. mind, body, spirit, and resolve, will be challenged.
we will have epiphanies, and we will slowly discover the lessons that are only learned by seeing, by hearing, and by doing.
and there will be new characters introduced, who will go on to be the protagonists of sequels.
all about the benjamins
i promise i will keep the wistful postings to a minimum. but here’s another (there will probably be three total). exactly one year ago – rather, on this date last year at this exact time (this is a Leap Year, remember) i had left Washington Mutual‘s offices for the last time, and i was having [...]
one year ago
what can change in a year; a job? a house? the city/state/time zone you live in? how about all of the above? yes, a year ago at this time, we were in the middle of executing our plan to move from Washington back to New Hampshire. we finished and sold the house, moved the trucks [...]
Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk: Boston, August 15-17 2008
the Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is an annual nationwide even taking place in major cities throughout the summer. in each city, volunteers sign up, train, and raise donation money, in order to be able to participate in the 3 Day, 60 mile walk. my wife, carrie, while [...]
wiggy. weekend. weather.
okay, it wasn’t the weekend. but i had to throw in the reference to LA Story, one of my favorite movies of all time. we’ve been enjoying, in new england, the remnants of some hurricane or something. a spiral of precip came through yesterday with band after band moving over us in a line, almost [...]
this is the new ocean
we watched some of our DVR backlog this morning with brunch. since seeing the first in the series, i have been enthralled with Discovery Channel’s When We Left Earth. i’m not generally a heart-on-my-sleeve kind of guy, but i tend to get emotional watching these shows. i think it’s something about the enormity of the [...]
happy 4th of july
i hope everyone enjoys a fun and safe independence day holiday today.
my workspace
while the view is quite different from what i had in seattle, i do get full control over setting up my workspace however i like it. my desk was cheap (and carrie has an identical one) – $99/each at a used office furniture store. they have cranks that adjust the height of the work surface. [...]
nixed tweets
just a quick site news update – had to remove the Twitter Tools widget from the utility column. Twitter is having issues (again) and the plugin i was using to retrieve my latest tweets was not written to handle Twitter being unavailable. it may return in the future, but breath holding is not recommended.
site update: a bit of design work
not earth-shattering developments, but i’ve made a few updates to my site theme that may or may not be interesting, depending on whether you are a geek or not. in no particular order, the changes include: the site name is larger, and the byline is moved to the right of it the main page width [...]
the defeat of arrogance
for anyone who hasn’t heard: the Celtics have defeated the Lakers in the 2008 NBA Finals. they clinched it in game 6, in front of the home crowd at the Garden. and the flow of goodwill (of course, i don’t live in LA, but) in general, seems wildly different from hearkening back to the Patriots’ [...]
carrie’s site launch
so, my in-house project for the past week has been one that is near and dear. for several months now, carrie has been writing about taxes on her blog, csusz.com. as far as design and layout are concerned, she has picked amongst the WordPress themes that our web host has made available by default. right [...]