Come Sail Away...

Well, the cruise is only a few days away and we are in high gear. The lawn is mowed, the luggage is down from the attic. The dog has to go to the kennel, the cat needs to be taken care of, the trash needs to be taken out, the laundry needs to be done, the bags need to be packed and I'm sure I'm forgetting something. Preparing for a vacation is exhausting. Well... my next post should be a review of the cruise. Until then... stay tuned.

WAY over due for an update

Okay... so I have done a lousy job of keeping the blog up to date. I'll try harder... really. Let me try to get caught up with the highlights at least...

My friend Allen is still in Afghanistan, but is due home soon. He had to make an emergency trip home in January because his father passed away. It was a very sad reason to get to see him, but I was happy to get to see him again. Also, thanks to his 10 days at home, he and his wife are now expecting their 4th child! He is one fertile boy!

Also, Leilani and I have been busy planning our annual anniversary vacation. Last year was a huge disappointment (Gatlinburg with terrible weather and we were both sick), so we are trying to make up for up this year. We are going on a cruise. We will sail from Miami, FL to Key West, FL to Georgetown, Grand Cayman and then back to Miami. It is a 5 night cruise. It is the first cruise for both of us and we are very excited about it.

That's about all the news that's fit to print. I'll try to put a nice long post up when we get back from our cruise to let everyone know how it went.

The Demise of SeanLucas.com

As of today, this blog will be my main website. I have had way too many issues with the web hosting company to continue paying a monthly fee for the site. Also, I believe the journal (now the blog) was the one part most people cared about anyway. I will try to do a better job of keep this blog up to date.

I do plan to maintain a small site at geocities, but it is mostly going to be for keeping my collection of links for my own use. It will also host my journal archive which I have linked on the right. The content that anyone other than myself would care about will all be here.

Bat Mitzvah party

This past weekend, my cousin's daughter was Bat Mitzvah'ed in Charlotte. The party afterwards brought back some old faces. I saw family members that I haven't seen in a long time. There were seven of us cousins that all grew up together. It was the first time in either 9 or 12 years (depending on who's version is right) that we had all been together at the same place at the same time. Here's a picture of my whole family.

Settling In

Well, we have finished unpacking in the new house and the house warming party is done. It is finally starting to feel like home. Tonight, we are going over to the old apartment to clean up and turn in the keys.

Now, the new challenge will be to prioritize all the projects we want to do around the house. We need to train the dog on the new invisible fence, widen the driveway, buy some deck furniture, re-seed the lawn, plant some trees and... Oh Boy! I'm tired just thinking about it.

I'll post again when I get caught up on my sleep...

Website overhaul

After a lot of hard work, the first draft of the website overhaul (www.seanlucas.com) is done. I've redone the menu to make it easier to manager, changed the color scheme and gotten rid of some content that I felt no one cared about anyway. Hope you like it.

Hello There

I am replacing the journal on my website http://www.seanlucas.com with this blog. To see archival journal entries I will create a journal archive on my site soon. All future entries will be posted here and linked to from my site. I am in the middle of a major re-write of the site so it may be a while before this blog is in regular use.