Today I spent hours trying to figure out if we should refinance. There are lots of questions that even my smart friends seem to have no answers to ( Read more... )

I guess it should go into my memoirs ( Read more... )

... so I might as well post here. It's been a long time. I never had a lot of friends on here, tribe dried up and I just can't get into facebook. So for a long while I was blog-less but I guess I write for myself, not for an audience ( Read more... )

Things are looking good, we might just own a little house on the Oakland Berkeley border soon.

...is a huge pain in the ass, yo.

And very very expensive... at least for immigrants.

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As I was getting married for the second time, my brother and sister in-law had their first baby: a healthy boy named Hannes.


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On Saturday Spank and I got married a second time around because we just can't get enough ( Read more... )

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It really was amazing. After the initial jetlag hang-ups passed and as people started to arrive our beautiful beach transformed into an exotic version of Camp&Son's: Everywhere we went we ran into our friends - beautiful ( Read more... )