Long overdue post.

I'm still alive, though I'm guessing if you're reading this, you already know that as you probably are in contact with me in some other fashion. I have been meaning to blog more, but haven't had the drive to do so, and I kept finding other things to do. So now that nine months has passed, here I am trying again. I don't have much beyond work to distract me so I don't have any excuse not to write at least once a week. That's my goal. Those of you who know me outside the blog, (which is is probably all three of you that read it,) have my permission to bug me if I don't keep up with it.

So what's been going on?

Well, I am firmly entrenched at ICERM at Brown. We are in our new space and I'm overseeing the finishing touches on our A/V systems as well as trying to complete our VDI project on time. I've got a lot more going on but I don't want to turn this into a list of my projects at work. One of the things I've been learning to do better is delegate. It helps that some of the things that need to be done are out of my realm of expertise. I have no choice but to hand those tasks off to the people I hired because they do have said expertise.

Criss spent the better part of the last six months prepping the house to sell, getting it sold, and getting the moving done. I owe her. She is amazing. She ended up dealing with a lot more work than I thought she would have too. She handled pretty much the entire process and did an awesome job. Did I mention I owe her? The house was only on the market for three weeks. We ended up taking a pretty big loss, but it's better that we got out from under it. I was pretty upset at the time, but I'm over it. Mostly.

We are renting a place on the North West side of Providence in a quiet little neighborhood. The house is a little bigger than the place we had in Indiana. It has some quirks but for a rental it's great. The area is very diverse, and there are tons of little ethnic shops and restaurants on the main strip at the end of our block. Providence is full of little neighborhoods and we're finding that it's a neat place to live. We've been exploring some and once we get settled in a bit more we'll probably explore a lot.

So that's it, nine months in three paragraphs. Obviously I left out a lot of detail. Likely I'll bring these things up in later posts, if I can stick to blogging this time. I'll leave you with a list of things I might write about in the future. If you have suggestions for things you'd like to hear me prattle on about, by all means, let me know.

TOPICS I MIGHT DISCUSS HERE:

Work

VDI

IT

IT Management

Vendor relationships

Beer

Movies

Books

Living in RI

Exploring New England

Other adventure

Gaming (likely not casino or video)

writing (how meta)

politics ( gasp!)

religion (double gasp!)

geek culture

cyber conflict (still interested)

policy( still interested in that too)

the combination of the two proceeding

things that piss me off

Maybe other things as I think of them.