It’s getting real! Lots of logistics coming fast and furious. Movers here in 15 days. We’re packing boxes, making last trips to the landfill, kids coming to take furniture, selling a few items, giving away many more. Called to get the electricity, gas and internet turned on, insurance moved. Friends are asking if we are…
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T -21 Days: Monster waves
Not our beach, not our lake, but a great time-lapse video showing how the Great Lakes can go from calm to ferocious in hours. Recorded this week at Lake Ontario. We’ll be enjoying summer in Grand Haven soon, but all seasons are fascinating when you live on the beach.
T -23 Days: Family game night 2018 version
Family Game Night 2018 I’ve always been a sucker for technology, and would also be categorized as an “Apple fan boy” Privacy be damned, I got tired of waiting for Apple solutions in our connected home. So we have Amazon Alexa devices in almost every room… Echo, Show, Dots, Dash Wand, and now Buttons. This…
T -24 Days: Parenting
Payback? And then flash forward to my turn as a parent. I had just run to the grocery store on the way home from a long day at work. My wife was there with our two toddlers and our almost newborn. As I came in, she grabbed her keys, “I’m done! You have the kids,…
T -26 Days: Null
One more day… and my last full week in the corporate world will be over. Then it will be time to begin packing, relax a little, and let a few stories from my past spill out. Fun stories, embarrassing stories, meaningful stories… get ready for some stories!
T -27 Days: Last days stress
Long, stressful day… another quarter closing. A nice, smooth, easy one would have been great, but it was not to be. Instead, I will be grateful for perhaps my worst one ever. Grateful, because the memory will stay fresh, a vivid reminder why I have reached around, picked the lock on the cage and will…
T -28 Days: Gift
What a great going away gift… a Kindle Oasis. Thank you! Perfect for reading in sunlight on the beach. And in keeping with our simplification, no clutter of physical books, everything in one tiny electronic package. So many books to read, and a few to write… and now finally, the time to do it all.
T -30 Days: April Fools
While at work today (on Easter Sunday) performing my last quarter closing ever (Yes!!!), I thought about writing an email, saying I had reconsidered and decided to stay at work(hell). And then I thought maybe today’s blog entry would be one declaring an end to the countdown. Couldn’t do it. Some things you just don’t…
T -32 Days: Big Muddy’s
Not too many more trips before we leave Iowa. Our favorite Burlington restaurant… great views, good food that is getting better and better. We will be building our dream in Michigan while the new owner of Big Muddy’s is building his dream on the banks of the Mississippi. Let’s hope the banks of the Mississippi…
T -40 Days: Keeping the faith
Closer and closer we come. Feeling great! Locked in our rental in Grand Haven even tho we have not yet sold our house. Just what we need… a mortgage, rent, and no job! Keeping the faith our house will sell very soon. Positive feedback so far, just not much traffic, waiting for the spring thaw….