Apr 19

If you have been wondering what’s become of me, waiting with baited breath and a finger on the refresh button for a new post, and/or just plain stalking me, this post is for you!

The long and short of it is that while we were on our cruise (which was totally awesome and everyone should take one sometime in their life) and after we came back, we’ve been doing a lot of talking about putting our house up on the market.  The part of Georgia we live in (northwest of Atlanta) has seen a huge boom of builders building houses in the $250k and up range–so much so that they are no longer selling and builders are selling at losses just to stay afloat.  Always one to try and improve our situation, we have hopes that our smaller, 3 bedroom, 2 bath on 1.3 acres of woods might sell fairly well if we spruce it up.  So, spruce it up we shall.

Our target is the middle of May and we have a ton to do before then.  Today, we had nearly 3 pallets of sod delivered and layed to cover our front yard where there was a huge lack of grass due to cheap contractors putting in pine straw instead of sod.  I’ll try to post some pictures tomorrow.  They had a bunch left over, so I put most of the rest of it down in another spot while the sun quickly dipped below the horizon.  Then, I spent the night cleaning out the garage with my shop-vac and rearranging stuff to make some room for packed boxes of stuff to go down there out of the way.  Prospective buyers are much more forgiving of a full, but organized garage than a cluttered house!

So, with much much more to do, you might not see as many posts from me for a few weeks.  To top it all off, things are very busy at work too!  I’ve been trying to get a small bug-fix update out for the Mac version and begin working on major feature planning for Safe Eyes 6.0 (Windows) all at the same time.  Plus, I have nearly two full weeks at the end of May and beginning of June where I’ll be in San Francisco.

Apr 04

Just a note to let you know that you won’t be hearing much from me over the next week.  We will be on a very large boat somewhere in the Caribbean.  I am taking a huge step (for me) and leaving home both the iPhone and the MacBook.  I will probably sneak into the “computer lounge” on the boat at least once or twice to check personal email (and maybe the Clan Elysium forum), but other than that, I am off the grid!  With my usual high level of connectivity, going “cold turkey” should be an interesting experience, but I think I can do it.

The most interesting thing about this vacation is that we will be without children.  Well, sort of.  Obviously, “Jellybean” will be with us since you can’t really leave him/her home.  This is unusual for us as we haven’t taken a vacation without Kayla since before she was born.  My mom was gracious enough to come down to stay with Kayla and Kayla is very excited about getting to play with Nana all week.  Although, I’m not sure she realizes yet that it comes at the expense of mommy and daddy being gone.

Since I will have time to read and listen to my iPod (two things that are hard to do on vacation with kids), I picked up a few new tunes.  Joe Satriani’s “The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology” which is basically 2 discs worth of Satriani’s best which iTunes had for $9.99.  I also grabbed Fireflight’s “The Healing of Harms” which I just found out about recently.  They’re a somewhat Evanescence-esque Christian band.

So, enjoy the week and don’t trash the place while I’m gone, ok?!