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Mental Ramblings of a Self-acknowledged Geek.
Posted: September 11, 2009
So just to clean up and simplify things, I’m merging my old wordpress.com blog with this one. I’ve imported some older posts over here and am making my wordpress-hosted abandonment official. There weren’t a lot of posts imported, but if you were browsing the archives and found some older ones from waaayyy back, that’s why. Just FYI.
Posted: September 11, 2009
I haven’t gotten a chance to mention this yet, (see last post) but I got to see Bill Nye in person a couple months ago. Bill was giving a talk at nearby St. Louis University on environmental sustainability that was free and open to the public. Given such a bargain-basement price, of course we went and got there plenty early.
The coolest part about all this is that I wasn’t the only one who was excited about this (nor probably the most excited). My 7 year old stepson Johnny just about imploded with excitement when he found out.
Johnny’s a huge Bill Nye fan. He watches the Bill Nye videos and reads Bill’s books from the local library like a lot of kids his age play video games (he really likes video games, too). So Isa and I decided that it would be a good surprise to take him to this talk…of Science!
Posted: September 10, 2009
Well it has been a while since I’ve posted anything here, as you well know by the ear-shattering sound of nothingness coming from over here the last couple months. Not an excuse but it has been pretty busy here lately.
To catch you up on the goings-on, here is the official Cliff’s notes version of the last few months of my life, with full version to follow shortly.
First up, I got married. After a year up planning the Big Day finally arrived. The ceremony was great, the church was beautiful and everything went off without a problem. The reception afterward was very elegant, everyone said so. And–very importantly for us–the photos came out great.
Well getting married was a lot to plan, but a few weeks before the wedding I found out I got an excellent new job at GoDaddy. In Arizona. So in the last couple weeks before the wedding we also had a move to plan. Fortunately Isa’s the plan ahead type and everything went smoothly.
When we got down here of course we needed to find a place to live, and then here was settling into the new job. Then, just about a month ago, my Dad found out he was going to need bypass surgery. I flew back and my brother drove home from school to be there. Fortunately the doctors found his blockages before he had a heart attack, and they’re getting really handy with heart surgery nowadays. It’s almost become a routine thing. Still it is a pretty big event and can really make you worry.
Finally, just this week, Isa and I made the switch and got iPhones, on which I am composing this post.
Anyway, that catches up most of the major events that have been occuring lately. Hopefully things have settled enough that I’ll be able to keep connected more, and maybe be able to get back to working on my movie reviews site.