While I swear up and down I’d never be one to do that whole “sorry about not posting, but…” I’ve done it in the past, so why would now be different?
It’s been one of those lacklustre periods where stresses were high, relief was immense and the comedown was hard. To cut a long story short, we finally sold our Atlanta condo at the end of last month, not for as much as we’d like, but with the current subprime crisis, I’m just glad we made some kind of profit. To celebrate we had a party that ended at 9pm as we literally collapsed, the stresses of the weeks leading up to closing day was not anything I’d like to go through again. At one point we were literally questioning why we moved to Charlotte and if we should move back to Atlanta to ride the crisis through to a more favourable outcome.
Following on the heels of that is the untold stress of trying to find a good series of flights to the UK for next year, we’re cashing in our Delta SkyMiles to (hopefully) get sweet seats to and from, but it ain’t easy, especially flying with someone like me… As I mentioned before, I hate takeoffs, so obviously a flight with multiple layovers is out the question, but getting decent flights is hard, one option we were looking at was Charlotte to Detroit to Paris to Edinburgh, with a 7 hour layover in Paris (after a long ass trans-Atlantic flight, no thanks). So we’re still trying to get this settled.
On the social side, we hosted Phillip and Katie a few weekends ago as they came up to live the NASCAR experience at the Bank of America 500. We also showed them around the quaint little neighbourhood we live in and got them lost in a corn field (as you do from time to time). It was cool seeing old faces again, we’ve been meaning to go back to Atlanta for a weekend and catch up but it never works out, and now we don’t have a place to crash. So we’re trying to persuade people to come up here. Please come visit us, we’re lonely.
On the media side, I’m loving some old-ish music in the form of a couple of U2 DVD audio rips of the Zoo TV and PopMart tours, which is crazy as I now need to see which live version of “Where The Streets Have No Name” is being played, Zoo TV? PopMart? Elevation? Vertigo? I also forgot how immensely awesome the PopMart tour was (and indeed how underappreciated Pop was/is). I’m also a cheap skate as I bought the new Radiohead album for a measly £1.45. It’s ok, I still prefer The Bends though… And OK Computer, of course.
On a truly nerdy note, TiVo has finally re-enabled TiVo-To-Go (TTG) and TiVo-To-Come-Back (TTCB) on our TiVo HD, so we finally watched The Simpsons Movie last night, Robyn’s working over the weekend, so I can watch Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We’re also going to see Robyn’s favourite band in the history of recorded music, They Might Be Giants, on Sunday night, should be good. She’s had to educate me in the ways of the Johns these last few weeks, I won’t tell you she nearly squealed when Olive and Vivian sang Birdhouse In Your Soul on Pushing Daisies, and we love the new song, The Mesopotamians.
And don’t even get me started about work…