I'm horrible at updating. We're currently in Des Moines, Iowa, on our way back to Wisconsin. Tomorrow is our third and final day of travel, after closing on the house on Tuesday. I'm really relieved that we sold it, but I'm honestly having a lot of mixed feelings about leaving ABQ... I was fine yesterday, but got strangely emotional somewhere in ( Read more... )

A pot of burning chilli sparked fears of a biological terror attack in central London.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7025782.stm

So, we're leaving. Going back to the land o'cheese&cows.

Things are moving quickly - our target date for heading out is October 4th. We may or may not have a lot of work to do on the house, depending. So... yeah. 4 1/2 years here and I still hate green chile.

Fuck you, New Mexico, but how I love your sopapillas.

More bad news... there are a lot of things I want to, or could, say about NM, the local economy, social problems, corporations, greed, and hypocrisy. But I'll just say that we are down to one job again and leave it at that. My work, on the other hand, is improving ever so slightly and a new person starts tomorrow ( Read more... )

I'm not feeling particularly wordy, so we'll just break it down. (Warning: May contain excessive consumerism)

Good Things:
1. This... turning our walks with Sara into actual walks, rather than a good way to break an arm ( Read more... )

Just a couple of things for today ( Read more... )

I haven't updated lately just for the fact that not a whole lot is new. Work is sort of tiring - mentally, mostly, and I'm super stressed because Nick still hasn't found a job. He doesn't even seem to be getting calls, which is weird, because I've looked over everything he's sending out (resume, cover letters and so on) and they're perfectly fine ( Read more... )

Two days into new bike ownership and it's already died in some small way. So, I guess it's more like the death of bike rather than the bike of death. I'm sure everyone here in ABQ (and probably the rest of you) are familiar with sharp little burrs that manage to find their way into everything... I'm not sure what plant they come from. Anyway, we ( Read more... )

So, yeah, we lost another job... Nick was let go last week for "hiding bills and not paying them" -- which makes so much sense considering they wouldn't have phones or utilities or their fancy ass big screen tv to blast msnbc on if he wasn't paying them. Basically, a new boss came in, decided he wanted to change everything, and because Nick was ( Read more... )

Echoing what sjester said in a post earlier today, Spring is here and my nose is all weird and allergy-y ( Read more... )