Paranoia

Latest "news" from Sidney,

First, I got a lot of response from my last post regarding advice for the college-aged geek. Thanks! I tried to limit myself to only 10 things because I figured more than that would just end up getting forgotten. I will probably send out more of these as they occur to me.

As for the title, I've found that I need to be careful what I put into my BLOG as my entries are sometimes forwarded on to those that I would rather they not. Therefore, I've instituted a self-editing feature. From now on, all of my posts will be scrubbed of any questionable content and instead posted on my new, SECRET blogspace. Those that I can trust will be sent the new address. Crap, I've probably said too much already... :-)

At any rate, here's what's new:

Christopher has begun playing organized football, and I've been volunteering as an assistant coach. It's a 3rd - 4th grade leage and, so far, it's been fantastic. He's not a natural football player, but he's got a pretty good attitude, and we're both having a lot of fun.

On Thursday night, all the coaches got together and we broke the 45 kids into two teams. It ended up working out really well - there were only two kids that I really wished I could have had on our team.

Chase is not playing football. He's 4'5" and 65 pounds, so he's tall and thin - not really built for football. Fortunately, he has little to no interest in playing so it works out well for everybody. We're thinking baseball or soccer for him, assuming we can get him off the computer long enough to play sports.

Obviously, we've still not sold our house. We dropped the prize by around 10k, so we're hopeful that that will generate some interest. If not, we've already been in contact with those "we buy your house" people, and we know that we can get 5k out of them in a worst-case scenario. If the house doesn't sell by December (when the contract is over), we're just going to give up and deal with these bloodsuckers.

We've also considered renting the house until the market turns around, but I don't know if I want to deal with that drama. Although, it may not be a bad idear to have a house to move back to if we ever decide to go back to Omaha.

I'd rather the damn place just sells and be done with it. We literally couldn't have picked a worse time to try to sell our house.

What else is going on? Um, I guess nothing, really. Just hanging out and trying to enjoy life, I suppose. Don't forget the super-secret blogspace coming soon!

With that in mind, sneak over and buy my house, godamit!