Random Babblings

So here  I am again.  Almost exactly 6 months since my last blog post.  Not entirely fair to my self, I did start another blog post but got interrupted some time in that time frame.  That original post went something like this:

Most days work is work, but today was at least a little interesting.

On the surface I work for a small auto finance company called Coastal Credit LLC. They are owned by a holding company called White River Capital (RVR). RVR doesn’t actually do anything, they are just a small office with two employees that put out or finical statements and are the public company that I hold stock in.

Today they put out a press release announcing a merger with First Chicago Bankcorp. The definition is a reverse merger

The irony of that post just hanging out there is that I no longer work for Coastal.   Nowadays I work for an even smaller company named sandSecurity.   The greatest thing about it is I get to work from home.  The owner of the company is also a long term friend.

The only other major thing in the past 6 months was the passing of my Maternal Grandmother.  That involved an emergency trip to Utica, NY.  This occurred right after the 4th of July, and took up most of that Emergency Fund I was talking about.  But hey that’s why it was there, if it had not it would have been that much more on credit cards.  Since then I’ve rebuilt that fund back up, and also managed to knock off a few credit cards.

I’ll be adding a new blog to the links today.  An old friend started up his own blog, with a little more direction than just random life.  I guess you could say that that has shamed me into coming back here, and it was probably the straw.  I’ve been thinking about it more lately.  I’ve been active on facebook for a while, and status messages there morphing to making sure my twitter was updated, coming back here was just the natural extension.

So, I’m all rested up after a nice trip up to Philadelphia for Easter and other things. I think I need a vacation.

Besides Easter, I was up there for a few specific reasons. Firstly, I hadn’t been there since Christmas 2005. Second, since my Dad is moving to a retirement community and selling the house, I needed to clean out any of the stuff I still had kicking around the house. Spring Cleaning 250 miles from home… Woo Hoo! Last, but definitely not least, is was my Grandmothers 90th Birthday. It still takes some time for that to sit in now and then. She’s not a fluke either. That side of the family has had many members surviving to their late 80s and 90s. So I have something to look forward to .

So, before the trip I took a quick stop at my local BestBuy and picked myself up a GPS. I’ve wanted one for a while. Between going on the trip, and it being on sale for $100 off. It seemed like a good time to acquire one. This will allow me to partake in the wonderful world of GeoCaching. Something that I’ve been wanting to try for a while. Look for future blogs, as I record my “travels”.

Every now and then you get caught up in something a little silly. Once upon a time I came across a website called Where’s George. I found the link one day stamped onto a $1 bill, and decided to punch it into a web browser. Sinec then I put bills in on a somewhat random basis, but usually never hit or get hit myself.

So I’m heading home this Christmas from the great (not so) white north and I get some change on the NY Throughway. Written in sharpie is the website, so I tell Lee (she was handling the money while I drove) to set it aside… I don’t want to spend that one.

So I finally get around to putting it in today. Have to say I was a little disappointed, I hoped to find it a little more well traveled. But as I said… it’s a silly hobby.

So the year 2005 is coming to a close. A good year overall for me and mine

The next year is still a little fuzzy. Lisa will continue school, and transition to the next level of the program in the fall semester. Staci is taking something of a “slack” semester in the spring, as she will switch majors in the fall. Even I’m going back to school in the spring semester to finish off the Business Administration degree that I started. And lastly on the school front, Elise will enter her senior year come September.

Lisa and I will be married 5 years come October, and been together 11 years this March. Not bad for all those doubters that said the age difference wouldn’t work….

I’d like to take another cruise this year. I definitely want to play more board games. And I want to take my Jeep off road (and not be avoiding plowing into someone to precipitate it). And mostly I just want to spend more time with my family.

Till next year.

Salute d’addio e buona

Forgive me if this is less coherent than usual, not feeling well and on a good bit of medication.
Life is busy as usual, and typing isn’t always my thing.

Our cruise approaches ever closer, just 17 more days now, and this weekend we’re taking the kids (and ourselves) up to the Maryland Rennisance Festival, there will be plenty of pictures.

And speaking of, I got myself a new camera (I hear you now, another one???). This one is all me though, the Powershot is now Lisa’s camera. I got to give it a trial run at the Oceana Air Show. I took over 700 pictures, and whedeled it down to about 150 in that album.

We’ve been trying to lose weight for the cruise (Lee’s been doing a lot better than I), but I decided the other day that I was going to do more than just “change my diet”. So I’m going to start back doing Karate. Likely Tai Kuan Do, mainly for the convience of location (Dojo <1mi from the house). I would have liked to be able to take Tang Soo Do like I did w/ my day too many moons ago, but didn’t find a local Dojo, though the styles are very similar as they both originate from Korea.