Archive for August, 2005



Unexpected treats

Published on 8/28/2005

The past two months have been marked by unexpected good fortune. I’m quite fond of the quote “luck is the result of fate intersecting with preparation”, but all the recent good fortune exceeds any rational explanation, and can only be explained as confirmation that we are where we’re supposed to be, doing what we’re supposed [...]


Settled In

Published on 8/24/2005

Although we’ll be adjusting (to) things for some time to come, we are now “settled in.”
The hardest thing to get used to is the heat. It’s been over 100 every day of the last week, and it doesn’t cool off to the mid eighties until early morning (5-9 AM). Thankfully, the humidity stays right [...]


Moving Photo Albums

Published on 8/20/2005

Finishing Touches

All Cleaned Out

Getting to Texas

Moving In


Simerson Housing & Moving

Published on 8/18/2005

Wow. So much has happened in the last few weeks. The biggest news is that our house in Michigan is SOLD! That happened on July 23rd, days before we lit out of town for Marco’s wedding in Nashville. This blessing came as a big surprise. For starters, there’s an excess of houses on the market [...]


Home, sweet home

Published on 8/12/2005

We arrived last night to find we had no water or electricity (it should have been on). A phone call cleared that up, but the technician didn’t arrive until 2:00PM today. The Cable modem installer arrived at 11AM. I had already wired up the access point, switch, cable modem, and IP phone. They were being [...]


Texas or bust!

Published on 8/10/2005

5:41PM - Garland, TX (home)
11:00AM - Springfield, MO
8:00AM - St. Louis, MO (depart)
Simerson’s are playing leapfrog while driving to Texas. Our stuff was packed into a commercial truck and left Cadillac on Monday. We left Cadillac this morning in our very full Jetta. After passing Bloomington, IL we checked in via the [...]