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It is natural to look at the start of a new year or decade and think that this is a new start, things will be better. Well, 2020 has not been that so far. Among some other minor things, Kelley started the year with a significant cold of some sort that lingered well into January. And then our beloved youngest cat, QB, who first showed signs of something amiss in December, passed away yesterday. This has left us heartbroken, but we will persevere.

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We've been in San Antonio for about five and a half weeks now and it simultaneously seems both more and less than that. We received our household goods about four weeks ago and the place is really starting to come together. Our Christmas tree is up for the first time in years and stuff has started going up on the walls.

We're also settling into our jobs. Mine is pretty low key and easy at the moment and Kelley was dropped into a dumpster fire, so she is a little stressed out. The h

It is now only a matter of days until we move out of this house and then a few more until we begin our journey to San Antonio. Just yesterday we had a BBQ here for Kelley's work section which was our last event here. Now the teardown and preparation for moving begins in earnest. We already have a house in SA, Kelley has a job, and everything is looking great. Our only struggle is going to be the three day, 23+ hour drive to get there in two cars. Exciting, scary, stressful, busy, bonkers, you na

Over the past two months, we've had some things to distract us from the upcoming move to San Antonio - we went to Virginia Beach and then took a week trip to Traverse City for the Cherry Festival. Now we're approaching two months until we move and there are no trips or big events in the way. Just thoughts of moving and what needs to be done. It is exciting and stressful. We've started looking at houses and have seen some truly amazing ones. Hopefully, we'll be blessed with an amazing house in a

In an unexpected upset, we're moving to San Antonio this fall! From the last update, you would have read that we thought it was going to be DC, Alaska, or Georgia, but we got a better result than any of those places! It is about time we got a break as far as the military is concerned.

I am going to be a squadron superintendent, which is the job I most wanted, so everything is coming up great so far. Kelley will have to find a new job again, and that is stressful, but she has always

If the question of whether we are moving or not seems familiar, it totally is. We anticipated moving a year ago because of the promotion I received, and when we ended up not moving, it looked like this year we'd move, instead. That still might happen, but it might not. The waiting, either way, is annoying though. If we do move, our three most likely locations are Washington DC, Augusta, Georgia, and Anchorage, Alaska.

Honestly, we hope we don't move again this year. Kelley is kil

Almost three years ago I wrote about some future projects I was looking to work on - you can find that entry here. As might be expected, much has changed over the past three years. I'm not as far as I would have thought and hoped, but I am also much farther than what I was and the path forward to getting even more clear.

The Awesome Theory
The site is still dead, now more so than ever due to technical issues resulting from the upgrade to

If you look around this site, it becomes clear that over the last 6 to 9 months updates have waned. Pictures of the month are behind, blogs and news posts are infrequent, and no features have been added. I started my Master's Degree program just after Thanksgiving last year and while the first class was cake, since then it has been a real drag. Kelley started her own Master's Degree program in May and that has made both of our lives seriously school-focused since.

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The TLDR or "short, short version" about what we did

We did a 7 day Caribbean cruise with DJ's sister, Lori, her husband, James, and their kids, Oliver and Lucy. We flew from Newport News to Houston and sailed from Galveston. We had stops in Cozumel, Mexico; Grand Cayman Island; and Falmouth, Jamaica. We did some cool shore excursions at each stop (Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza at Cozumel, an island tour of Grand Cayman, and a waterfall climb and cave exploration in Jamaica) and

We moved to our new house six days ago and man, that was some super hard work. I was more exhausted than I've been in quite some time. The only times I can remember it being worse was after our half marathons and after my Spartan Race. I tried to workout two days later and could barely do any of the moves. It was just silly.

The house is coming together nicely, though. It is older, but we like its quirks, and the backyard is simply amazing. This house will force us to be more social