I am moderately certain most of you have read and know about one of those life milestones that occurred yesterday for Leigh Knipp and myself. Just under 6 months ago, another one occurred with the birth of our son Flynn. Twenty years ago, nearing the end of my college years, and near the start of my IT career, I was 100 % convinced that I would never get married, that if I had a child, it would be alone and I would adopt and that I would mostly spend the bulk of my life living alone. All in all, it wasnt a bad 20 years, though it did (at times) get a bit lonely. In was also quite an adventure. I left California and moved to Washington State near Seattle. Had my first steady girlfriend, and my first truly major heartbreak. Worked a gig at Microsoft at their main campus, learned a bit of construction rebuilding walls (literally, like with jacks and the whole darn thing gone for a bit) in the crappy house my roommates and I owned. During the dot. Bust internet crash I experienced my first major economic correction and had a 3.5 year period of unemployment (or under employment) my mother would put it slightly differently, with the idea intact… however I can be a stubborn …well you get the idea. . I not only survived, but busted my ass hard enough and eventually thrived again. Right back where I had been in my career, and actually further along. It was an adventure to say the least. Four and a half years ago I started another adventure when I moved to Ohio with no job lined up, knowing only a couple of people. All my stuff in a moving truck along with my two cats. While the Woodinville/Seattle area always seemed too big, Defiance felt just right. Close enough to economic centers to (at least potentially) find a good tech gig, small enough to not have to deal with all of the big city crap most of the time. Bit tough for a California boy to move into a community where your Barber went to school with your girlfriend, your plumber knows her father, just about everyone at one of the major medical facilities knows her, you bought a car from someone who worked with her Dad, and her father’s best friend was even the Mayor a number of years ago! Shesh. You know that song with the line… “Always feel like, somebody’s watching me…”… ya..at times I felt like I was under a microscope. I also felt an incredible sense of community. Met two awesome people who are now Flynns godparents. In Washington, I think I talked to our neighbors a total of 4 times in the 10 years I lived in the house there. Here you can’t go to the book store without running into someone you know. Now we start a new period in the story. If the next twenty years are anything at all like the last, they certainly will not be boring. Let the adventure begin.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 13:56:37 +0000
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