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May 26th, 2009 @ 12.47 pm

Sunday Beverly and I joined a group of fellow Slowriders and cruised on down to Manassas, VA for the Bug Out VW show.  I still haven’t finished fixing my 1776cc engine, and so drove down with the “spare parts” 1600cc engine that is more or less a stock, 60HP unit.  Luckily, it ran great the whole trip and got us there and back.  We met about seven other cars at a rest stop just south of Rt 32 on I-95 and then caravaned down to the show.  It’s a lot more fun to be riding in a whole string of slow old cars together, and then spending the day with friends just hanging out and talking cars along with whatever else comes up.  Coming home Whit followed me in his silver GTI as we went through about four or five rain showers.  I tried to not drive the car in the rain, but it will survive.  Pictures from the day are in the gallery, enjoy!

April 1st, 2009 @ 5.46 pm

Way back in the fall of 2006 I was engaged to Beverly and living in a condo I was renting from a college friend while he went to law school.  Looking ahead three years to 2009 when my friend was scheduled to graduate, I knew I wanted to live in a place I could have a back yard to toss the ‘bee and have a cookout, as well as a place I could keep at least my Beetle under a roof of my own.  A townhouse would work for this, but a single family home would be even better.  Unfortunately the housing market at the time was going nowhere but the stratosphere. Read the rest of this entry »

January 15th, 2009 @ 7.56 pm

I’ve probably said it before in an older post, but I’ll reiterate it: time flies.  I’m sure you know the saying that time flies when you’re having fun, but this past year (is it over already?) I’ve really noticed that it doesn’t matter whether you’re having fun or not; time flies.  And it seems to be flying faster every day.

Since my last posting that was way too long ago, a lot has happened.  The Ravens beat the Redskins, Christmas came and went, and I finished my Photo-A-Day gallery.  I even gave you five bonus pictures that I had not previously published to make up for the five days I didn’t post any picture during the year.  So is that really a bonus?  Oh well, just accept it as a bonus and be happy.   Read the rest of this entry »

December 1st, 2008 @ 9.45 pm

Unless you live under a rock, it seems the financial sky is falling everywhere I look. If you told me that I’d be paying under $2 per gallon for gasoline in five months just this past July, I would have laughed in your face, but prices for gasoline have fallen as low as $1.79 per gallon or lower.

(photo from Gasbuddy.com) Read the rest of this entry »

November 16th, 2008 @ 11.50 pm

This blustery and cold November afternoon our small group got together for a photo scavenger hunt in downtown Annapolis.  We split up as couples and had the task of taking and submitting five pictures in each of three categories as selected by us three couples: necessary but often overlooked, trash, and hardware.  This picture is one of our entries for the hardware category.   The competition was strong, but in the end Beverly and I were choses as the winners through a points based voting system involving three impartial judges.

November 9th, 2008 @ 8.47 pm

One question Beverly and I keep coming back to is what is God’s plan for us, and where does he want us? He’s given us both great jobs in the Columbia area, and a place to live very close to my office until next spring. But in terms of our friends and church family, we feel in limbo. We love our friends from college, even though they’re becoming more and more scattered across the world, and we’ve been in a good small group at church, but that is a 40 minute drive away in Arnold. But we don’t feel settled at all.

We feel like we’re missing God’s plan for us. Should we look for a house in Columbia and find a new church? Should we look for a house closer to Arnold and drive farther to work, but still have a 15 mile drive to Broadneck EP Church? Should we move to Catonsville that is both farther from work and just as far from church, but is cheaper, has more of a small town feel, and is where both of us went to college? Should we quit our jobs and become missionaries/ photo journalists/ ambassadors of Ultimate in a foreign country? Read the rest of this entry »