Archive for June, 2007

An open letter to Germans everywhere

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Hello my fellow Fatherlandians.  Yes, I too can trace my lineage back to Deutschland.  I just spent a week in two of your cities (Stuttgart and Bautzen), and have the following thoughts:
1) You have got to add more Air Conditioning.  Everywhere I went, public places were not conditioned.  Airport business lounges, Hotels (and my room [...]

Closing One Door, Opening Another - the CODOA approach to life

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Today two things happened that are monumentous.
1) North Carolina House is no longer ours. I repeat, our full year of two homes is officially over. More on how it feels, lessons learned, and so one in another post.
2) I enrolled in grad school today. Ok, so it’s not really grad school, it’s [...]

NC experiment may finally be over

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

The house MAY be under contract as of this morning.  Just in time for me to still have to make June payments on it, but such is life.  This month also marks the one year anniversary of two mortgages.  You can see why we are eager to put it all behind…