The employment front
Did I mention I changed jobs again? This is the last time for a while, I swear. I did really love what I was doing at the newspaper (and the cool people in the media group there) but I developed a feeling that someone was about to move my cheese, so adaptation was needed.
Per the Aftervictory Code of Secrecy, all I can say is that I’m still a web designer, but now working in the public sector. It’s quite a thing to change a job when you’re the sole source of income, but they made me a pretty outstanding offer. So far so good there.
Two years
Hard to believe but it’s been two years for us here in the northern of the two Carolinas. It’s gone by so fast! Still a little weird to write ‘NC’ on our return address labels. It’s still good though, and still tough to be away from our family and friends.
Cars
We now have three cars, which for those keeping score us one more car than licensed operators. Kate and Ted cruise around in the Versa while I take either of the remaining vehicles to work.
Keeping versus trading in came down to value. While we would have received some money for a trade in, we get much more value out of having an extra car. By equally spreading the mileage over the older vehicles, hopefully we can delay having to purchase a commuter car for me for a while.
Television
As new parents, our TV time is pretty limited. After Ted goes down for the night, there’s only maybe an hour before we’re both asleep. We have to choose our viewing wisely.
We watch almost all our TV from the internet. Sites like Hulu.com and the various network websites allow us to watch what we please whenever we like, without having to pay for cable tv.
Right now we watch The Daily Show, How I Met Your Mother, and the very dark comedy Its Always Sunny in Philidelphia.
If you haven’t checked out Hulu.com yet, you need to. It’s way easy to use, free, extremely well thought out in it’s design, and has a ton of shows, many from long ago.
We watch The Office too.
Cars – are you trying to catch up to me? Extra vehilces, while a luxury, are a nice benefit when one goes down.
TV – Adam 12, Emergency and all the classics are good TV. Are you watching Emergency with Ted, it was one of your favorites.
We watch Attack of the Show, Pete has a crush on Olivia Munn but he has a thing for silly women, if she was a red head I’d find him licking the TV.
We also rented Joseph Campbell’s Power of Myth from Netflix–I LOVE this series, it is wonderful.
I’m saving to get this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1UjBEmiOhI
Harleymaster – he’s seen a little Emergency when they run it on one of the local retro channels down here. He’s also seen an episode or two of The Hunk, as well as Knight Ridder. Mostly we just have him watch sign-language dvd’s though.
Tracy – The Alfa is pretty sweet. I’d take one if someone gave it to me :)