Category: General
David’s Party
Ali and I went down to Winston-Salem this past weekend for David’s 30th Birthday party. We had an ominous warning not to go when Ali had a semi-blowout earlier in the day while coming home from Walton. We persevered and made arrangements to get a new tire at Sears, which is a little over an hour away. Driving on the donuts for that long is not a lot of fun. This was on Thursday in case you were wondering. We got out of Kingston about 7pm that night and drove until about 1:30am stopping in Woodstock, VA for the night. Driving that night wasn’t much fun as it rained a lot and there was a lot of traffic. At some point near the end of drive that night, one of the windshield wipers … Read More »
New Blogs
I’ve been busy …
I have started two new blogs, one for house hunting, and one for cycling. I added a new side bar section called “blogs” to make for easy navigation between them.
I will do my best to keep the house hunting one up to date as we go and view properties. I may not always have a lot of pictures, as usually the residence of the house are home while we are looking at it, and I find it awkward to take pictures of someone’s house while they are there.
So Damn Lucky
Recently I have been listening to Some Devil by Dave Matthews. There is a song on the album, which I like, but hadn’t taken the time to process the Lyrics. There was one line that reminded me of my wife and myself. She sometimes talks to me, and it could be minutes but eventually I’ll respond, and then she’ll have no idea what I’m talking about. Anyway that is irrelevant to the overall entry.
I’m going to start with the Lyrics to the song, which are mostly complete, there are two words near the end I have been unable to make out, and apparently no one else has either because they don’t show up on any of the lyrics sites out there.
“So Damn Lucky” (low quality mp3 to keep it small)
Everything’s different, my head in the clouds
I … Read More »
Reverse Engineering
Reverse Engineering Stream of Consciousness
I was driving to the Saturn dealership this morning and found myself thinking about drug use and why we should or should not care if someone decides to use them, and all of the implications that go along with it, abuse, addiction, how to support the habit, and so on. At some point venturing down this path I realized I was thinking about it, and I wanted to know how I wound up at that point. This would be the reverse engineering part, and it is sometimes something I do when I catch myself thinking about seemingly random things.
House Hunting
Ali and I are starting to get serious about finding a place to live. We made a trip to Pennsylvania and two places in particular, Hazleton and Allentown. I wanted to see what it was like as housing and taxes are much cheaper there than New York. Hazleton is the town my grandmother grew up in, and I thought it would be neat to go see it. Allentown wasn’t a bad place, but it is about 3.5 hours from Ali’s family, and I think I would like to be closer to them than that, so we’ve pretty much ruled out Pennsylvania. This whole notion of being close to her family is interesting, as it has a lot more to do with proximity. In particular I don’t think I would have a problem moving out West … Read More »