Yes, I'm still alive and well!

For those of you who have scratched me off their list as another Internet casualty (read, lost interest in sharing my little life with the rest of the world), it's not true! And it's not that I've decided to voluntarily take time off and not blog. It's simply that my life has become somewhat complicated lately (read, busy as hell so when I come home, those few hours between catching up on the day with my family, and going to bed, are so precious to me that I don't want to share my time).

Work has become very challenging for me lately. It's not because things are more technically challenging for me. It's just that there are some major upgrade initiatives at work that I'm heading up that are so mentally and time consuming, that I've had little time for anything else. But, in time, a month or so, this too will pass. So, until that time, my posting may be a bit sporadic. For those of you who continue to visit, thank you for thinking of me and for visiting. I'm not going anywhere!

Just some updates of our lives.....
- We are both healthy and doing well

- In a month, we are both going back to Idaho (very quick trip - 2 days there in all), where Kent is being honored with an award from the college that we both went to, and, where we met.

- I'm doing great, but stress is taking it's toll. I do find some comfort in my 18 year old single malt Scotch though, just before going off to bed. :-)

- We are going to New Zealand in December. Kent is going there for a couple of days of meetings. We will spend two or two and a half weeks there touring the two islands. FUN! Can't wait.

- Getting excited to see Mom again. She is coming for a visit in a couple of weeks.

- Getting excited to see friends again in Idaho in early October!

So there you have it. Nothing bad happened to us. Just crazy as hell. And I'm more addicted to iTunes than ever before. It's like heroin, only nicer. Oh, and the person who cuts my hair moved to a new place in West Hartford (pricey), and right next to the hair salon is a Bose store. Not good!!! So, after I got my hair cut, it seemed only natural to buy some new Bose noise reduction headphones for my trip to Idaho. I'm so impulsive about such things.

I'm trying to catch up on some photos I took. Here are a few of them. I just got around to posting them now. It was from a small walk we took yesterday along one of Coventry's many rivers.

Oh!! And by the way, for those of you who post comments to my blog, I now have THREADED COMMENTS!! You can now reply to a specific comment that someone made, and it shows it as a reply -- something that I've wanted for quite some time.