Early March Update

Been awhile. Howya doin'?

February was a bit slow for me after Mardi Gras (exciting photos here), but things are heating up a little now. Finally making a little headway on the job search. More on that as it develops. Other items:

Josh's campaign is picking up speed and gaining national notice. More on that in another post.

Also picking up speed is life at Dog River: Mom & Dad got an iMac! After being without computer for a few years, they finally got high-speed internet, wireless, and topped it off with a stunning 20" iMac. I've been helping them learn it, and Mom has become quite the video chatter!

I'm awaiting some Apple goodness of my own right now: my Time Capsule should be here in a few days, adding a second backup solution to the LaCie drive I clone my system to every week or so. Good peace of mind.

Next weekend I'm going out to Cali for the wedding of Eli, one of my LA friends. The wedding is up in Muir Beach, where he grew up. Just so happens that there was recently a great article in the NYT about the very area where the wedding will be, and there's going to be a wedding party hike Saturday morning on probably some of the same trails in the article. Check it out!

Northrup/EADS won the contract for the next Air Force tanker, which means Mobile is gonna build giant airplanes! This is huge for the city, region, and state. The steel mill was huge too, economically, but of course there are concurrent environmental and other issues with that. The tanker is much more exciting for me, because it's right in town, at Brookley, revitalizing that great old airfield; it brings a high-tech & high-skilled industry and workforce; furthers Mobile's development and modernization (hopefully it will be done smartly); and best of all, it's giant planes! That's one thing Mobile has always lacked that many great cities have - exciting air traffic!

And speaking of exciting air traffic, there go Branson and Virgin, kicking ass again.

And did you see this? Amigos de Obama. Fantastic song & video!

Otherwise, things have been pretty ho-hum here, just working, following the presidential race, and just trying to enjoy still being home but also working on my next move. The weather's been nice. And I can happily report that I've made jambalaya twice in the last week or so. That stuff's damn good!

Later...