Author: Michael Harrison

DSCF0041 Originally uploaded by Czech37. Here are some photos of the Calli-monster at the beach this weekend.

Home is where the rump lands, as they say. We’re home, after a huge Moving Day that saw large amounts of assistance from family. If it weren’t for Mom and Dad and my cousin, Tandy, her husband, Brian, and, to some extent, their toddler Will, I have no idea what would have happened. Getting all…

Natania’s mom came up this weekend to help with the preparation of the new house, and we took some more photographs. The garden was tidied up (though “gutted” may be a more appropriate word) and we painted the rooms inside. The guest bedroom needs another coat, and there’s lot of trim work to be done, but…

I gave my two weeks notice on Monday. My boss was surprised and disappointed, which I suppose is better than delighted and pleased. I can tell she’s not happy about my decision, but she’s doing her best to keep a good face. Everyone else is sorry to see me go, but the cow-orkers with whom…

Slowly, we’re getting our stuff to Chapel Hill. The end of the month–and of our lease–is fast approaching. It seemed so far away, and now it’s not. This is the way that life works. It is, after all, what happens when you’re busy making plans. I called in sick on Friday because I wasn’t feeling…

Had the third interview in Raleigh this past weekend. Natania came along, as per the owner’s wishes, and met everyone. She got a tour of the office space, which is more than she’s ever seen of my current workplace. In more than a year of my employment there, my own wife has not met a…

I gotta stop doing this. When I skimp, I just end up having to write more. Well… hopefully, in a month and a half that will cease. I will have more time for writing, which is something I have been looking forward to for quite a while. I’ll have more time for most everything. Because…

There’s a site we do at work for a cookie company in the Carolinas (ahem) and they’ve got a promotion in effect now for a certain line. So, the marketing “boss” tells me, over the intraoffice IM network, to just pick something random for the coupon code. Someone gets the code, they choose what they…

Up and at them before 9 on a weekend. My hat goes off to Natania, who got up at 8:30 to head to the gym, leaving me behind in a very cold bed, which gave me no choice but to get up and clad myself in oodles of clothing to keep from freezing. I have…