Fall in N.C. - Boston in the Winter

I just realized it's been three months since I last posted here, so it's time for a bit of catch-up.

I spent a weekend in DC visiting a new friend of mine who I met in Miami, and visited some college friends, too. It was nice to go country western dancing, get some yummy bubble tea, go to the Roosevelt memorial and generally have a lovely weekend.

I went to see mostly short films at the North Carolina G&L film festival here in Durham. There was one short film ("Tristan", specifically done without words) that was particularly moving.

I spent a week and then a weekend at Easton Mountain for a couple of retreats. It was nice to spend the time there, meet some lovely people, and relax, reflect, grow.

After being away for a week, I came back to our office having moved to a new office building about 15 minutes away. It's a nice building, but it's disappointing to have to drive to work after being able to walk for six minutes to work.

Good college friends bought a house outside Seattle and the timing worked out that I (and some other good college friends) could go up for their housewarming. Great to see them and their new place.

After the weekend in Seattle, I was in Las Vegas for a trade show for work. That was our debut show (we came out of stealth mode the week before an announced our product). It went well, and we were honored as a finalist for best software in show. Just this week we got another honor as one of the 10 new management companies to watch.

I went to New York city for the Improv Everywhere MP3 Experiment, Olaf Eliasson waterfalls installations, a visit with a college friend, and an excellent grown-up and risque Spiegelworld circus show.

I also went up to Hanover for Dartmouth Homecoming. The event was to honor the retiring band director, and there was also a 100th anniversary celebration of the humor magazine that I wrote a bit for. On the way, I got to visit mom Burlington.

I made a big decision: to move to Boston February-ish. Mostly, I want to be there for the recreation (rowing and hiking) that I'm missing here, and for the more concentrated urban concentration of people social life. Things have been fine here, but I do really want to live up there, even though I have some trepidation about not continuing to work with my colleagues and giving up chances to do some cool work with the people here. On balance, though, it feels right, and has for the last couple of weeks.

Closer to home, I bought a down comforter. I wonder why I didn't do that before. It's delightful.

In the last couple of weekends of much less travel, I've done more reading. I just finished Doug Hofstadter's I Am a Strange Loop, which was a nice read.