Perspective Prevails

I know there has been quite a delay in posting. At the moment we are both sort of plugging along on our current situations. School is going well, definitely learning something new all the time. The hiring season is really picking up and I am hoping that the interviews will start coming soon. We still have the offer pending on the short sale house in New Hampshire, but we have decided to wait a bit before we seriously look further. We figure it makes more sense for us to wait until we know where I am working and make a decision from there. This doesn't mean we will stop looking completely. If we see a good deal or fall in love with something, then we will definitely think about making an offer and basing other decisions on that, but for now, we are going to see where fate might take us.

Additionally, we are trying to figure out our next travel adventure. What we are debating is whether or not we are going to do a US trip this summer. We are thinking perhaps a driving trip around the southwest starting in Texas and driving through Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and then perhaps ending in New Orleans. These are all still ideas at the moment as we are still unsure of what may or may not be expected of us professionally, but we are really hoping to make some sort of cross country journey work. We shall see...

Annie Get Your Gun

As some of you may know, I get a bit antsy when I don't have enough on my plate which suffice to say meant that when I was unemployed for those 8 weeks after finishing grad school, I had a slight case of cabin fever. I was working part-time still at Maimonides, but the prospects there were fairly limited. At the wedding I reconnected with the infamous, Ms. P and decided to come back on board as the choreographer for a few of the youth performance troupes at the theatre. On my first night back at Riverside Ms. P of course had some other opportunities she wanted to let me know about and one of them sparked my interest. The Spring Main Stage production of Annie Get Your Gun was still without a choreographer. At this date I had yet to interview out in Groton and did not see anything else too lucrative coming my way so I thought, why not? As is also typical with me though, not more than a week after making the commitment to this show I received word that I got the job out in Groton. I swiftly went from barely a part-time job to a full-time one, a part-time one and a show. Tonight is my first rehearsal and appropriately the first song I am working on is There's No Business Like Show Business... Ain't it the truth.

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'ello John, got a new mota

Interesting few weeks, bought another car, mainly as a result of Rin feeling the 1962 race prepped Hybrid Landrover unsuitable for the commute to work. Went for a Saab 95 in Aero trim. It is a nice car though not without the usual Saab foibles which we're working through at the moment. It's is stunning what sorts of deals you can pick up, it's was a $42850 car in 2001/02 and we picked it up, albeit with high mileage and about $1000 to sink into it, for a shade under $3000.
This recent acquisition and the recent bright spell of weather also has permitted me to turn my attention to the cars, a passion that I used to have all too frequently, fixing em, making them better...even just a bit of wax on wax off action.

Anyway, today was spent changing the water pump on Kemo, Kemo because it happens to be a Kemo Saab(e) in Convertible white trim and NG900 form.....it's passed through 30,000 miles in 2.5 years fairly seemlessly so a water pump here and a bushing there isn't bad. With the 95 and the NG900, I am beginning to feel distinctly Swedish now, that coupled with a plethora of reasonably well designed flat pack furniture and we're giving some gravity to the Scandinavian GDP.

Also competed in the Snow Row over in Hull, basically the first serious race of the season, and when I mean serious I really mean that it is a punt....but in inclement conditions it can be brutal, and I don't think ithas ever been cancelled in it's 30-35 year history. Even and I enjoyed a nice calm row though and happened to pick up a bit of gold wear (ok, a clam shell) along the way. The article is below, Even is not giving the bird to the camera.

The progression of house hunting is also going reasonably well though feeling somewhat frustrated by an offer on a shortsale.....watch this space.

All in a March Saturday

clipped from www.patriotledger.com Snow Row brings a fleet to Hull   Mar 07, 2010 @ 04:09 PM Spring-like weather brought a record 96 rowers to Windmill Point in Hull to compete in Saturday's 30th annual Snow Row Race. Spring-like weather brought a record 96 rowers to Windmill Point in Hull to compete in Saturday's 30th annual Snow Row Race. Record turnout for Hull's annual Snow Row Purchase this Photo ALEX JONES/The Patriot Ledger Matt Coates and Evan Cutler were the first to cross the finish line of Saturday's Snow Row at Windmill Point in Hull in their double ocean shell.