As my wonderful wife pointed out in the comment section of the last blog, it has been five days since I last blogged. So. Two days after the first blog, five days after the second blog ... at this rate, I think you'll wait approximately one year between blog Nine and Ten. Whoever "you" are ...
The great thing about blogging, I suppose is that you just get to put your thoughts out into the universe and if they come back or if they ever reach another human being then that's all well and good, but the important part is the putting your thoughts out there.
(This reminds me of a super creepy Ray Bradbury short story. It's in the Illustrated Man book of shorts, which is a book based on this guy who's tattoos all tell stories. It's excellent, as should be expected from Bradbury. Anyway, in this particular story this spaceship or something explodes and these astronauts are floating out into space, all in separate directions, and they know that they'll never be saved, but they'll float on forever, but they can still communicate through their headsets in their spacesuit helmets. A horrifying idea - I think maybe a hell that terrifies me more than fire and brimstone, the idea of communicating sheer isolation. I shiver just thinking about it.)
That was a super long side note.
Onto the big news for today: We bought a house. Or rather our offer has been accepted. It's a little two bedroom, two bathroom, two porch house in St. Paul, just east of downtown, across the street to the south from Interstate 94. (This makes the front porch an interesting bit of construction, since it is a bit noisy there.) It's super exciting. We've been looking for quite a while and we've had two other offers on other houses and for the third to be the charm is glorious for us. We'd love to have you over once we get all moved in come October. And I don't even know who "you" is ...
I've been booking shows and reading Chris Offut's The Good Brother (which is brilliant) and hanging out with Eden and Sarah and enjoying my last two weeks of unemployment. I'll try to be better about this whole routine thing, I really will. We'll get in a groove here and you'll be amazed at the hyper-interesting blog posts that I have for you.
Tomorrow. Tomorrow. I'll write you tomorrow...
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