When I woke up this morning, my lovely wife asked me, "Do you feel another year older?" My response was a definitive "Yes."
Kate has been asking me this question on my birthday, probably since I've known her. She says that every other time I've said, "No." I guess it's been a busy year. Perhaps it's the instability of consulting that is making me feel older. Perhaps it's the becoming a father. Perhaps it's the settling into Connecticut life. Perhaps it's the purchase of our first house. Perhaps it's all the work we've done on the house.
Whatever it is, I do feel older this year.
Living in our first house is really great. The consulting business has been pretty good to us so far. We enjoy living in SE Connecticut. And I wouldn't ever dream of trading J for the feeling of being young.
Here's to growing older.
The move is complete. Well, all of our stuff is in one location now. We've just got to unpack everything.
As part of the move, we decided to re-evaluate our phone/Internet/cable services. It turns out that SBC provides local phone, long distance phone, DSL, satellite television, and mobile phone (Cingular) services all wrapped into one. The combined total is cheaper than the sum of the individual bills we were getting at the apartment. We'll let you know how the service is once we get settled and start watching our regularly scheduled programming (You are still in the running to be America's Next Top Model).
The satellite dish is small and mostly hidden from view (although there was an emergency room visit for one of the guys installing the thing). The DSL technician comes on Wednesday, which is why Kate has not been updating. She's been sans-Internet for a week now (and surviving quite well).
And that's it.