Unbelievable. So much much of my life has changed in recent months and I have yet to blog about it. Pardon me while I sort out everything in my cluttered mind:
Just to update for the record, we've been living in San Francisco for the past 2 months. Fun city. Expensive though.
Yesterday was Father's Day. P and I cooked for both of our fathers and hosted it at my folks house. We marinated a lot of meat for the BBQ. Good times were had by all. Of final thoughts, I'll be making a lot of bruschetta in the future. Kabobs too. I'm bummed that we didn't get to play mahjong. I also kinda miss video games.
Paul and Leeya's wedding was about 3 weeks ago. Man, it was a beautiful wedding. I was glad to help out in the reception. That was cool. We all pitched in. It was great.
We bought a condo in Daly City and we are nearing the final stages of our escrow period. In fact, the final walk-through inspection is tonight. Good times. Now to see if we can get out of our apartment a bit earlier. Hopefully we can pro-rate some of the rent back to us. We'll see. I'm very excited about the new place, though. It may be small, but IT IS OURS!
Seems like P is settling into her job really well. She works in the heart of the Financial district near the B of A building. For those of you who aren't sure which one that is, it's the large, dark monolithic rectangular building that is as inherent to the skyline as the pyramid. She's lucky. She probably has access to some of the best lunch place in the city, well within walking distance.
I'm leaving my job for a non-profit in South SF. I start in almost two weeks. It's slightly less money but the staff seem to be a good bunch to work with. I'm hoping for the best. My current boss isn't too terribly happy about this but this is the common story for all of us transitioning.
I was promoted last month. 1LT is a nice rank since you're just below a CPT and no longer have the perception that you're an inexperienced officer (despite whatever you've done in the past). It's funny though. I don't really feel any different. I guess it's just a matter of perception.
My semi-annual qualifier is next month. I hope I do ok. Although I'm a decent shot most of the time, I worry because I haven't been training very much with all of the changes happening.
Last week, I saw a 2 kids (perhaps 4-5th grade) skate by us at Foster's Freeze while waiting for the signal to turn on Taylor. Clearly, school was out. One of the kids looked chinese and had a bowl haircut. It was hot that day too. I kinda miss being a kid. I love warm weather and not having a care in the world (until september, that is). I couldn't help but smile at the sight of that. Actually, I tend to smile a lot more during the summer months since it elicits all kinds of nice imagery from my childhood. Good times, they were.
It's not greed. I'm just curious what we must do to get money. A lot of it, that is. Thoughts, anyone?
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