Monthly Archives: July 2005

Status of our move

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We’ve been going through a lot of uncertainty about our move back to the Chicago area. For one thing the time it is taking to get our Indiana house ready to show to potential buyers is enormous. There is so much to do and it is overwhelming. My brothers Dan and Tim helped out tremendously when they came last Friday through Saturday to paint and clean up the yard, but there is still a lot to do. A lot of the burden has fallen on Michele because I have been at work and during off hours, I have been working on catching up with grading and other work for the class I’m currently teaching for the LEEP program at UIUC GSLIS.

I’m happy to note, though, that last week we finally found a place to live in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. The town we will be living in has a wonderful location about an hour’s drive from my in-law’s, with great schools for Keegan (and Tristan, who will start kindergarten next year). Our house is across the street from the commuter rail station so it will be a short walk to take the train to my work. There is a Starbucks one block away. The nice public library is a short walk of about four blocks. We won’t have a yard of our own but there are lots of parks and playgrounds we can walk to. We really praise God for providing for us and we are looking forward to the move in a few weeks.

We have a local family coming to see our house early next week and we hope that they will make an offer on our house. That would be a real answer to prayer, also.

Dell falls off the Cluetrain | Perspectives | CNET News.com

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Dell falls off the Cluetrain | Perspectives | CNET News.com

This opinion piece from Charles Cooper of C|Net is worth reading mainly because it points out that “We’re still quite early into this Internet/blog revolution, and it’s not yet clear how it will all end up. Still, it’s safe to predict that any institution (including a news organization) that ignores the conversation does so at its own peril.”

It’s that conversation, via message boards, blogs, wikis, whatever, that’s increasingly important at engaging discourse and solving problems, especially in terms of technology issues. Why are some so (seemingly) clueless?

Struggling to finish

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Since deciding to leave Indiana, everything has been up for grabs and life is very stressful. Michele and I have spent most of the past week trying to get our house ready to put on the market. This includes new gravel for the driveway, new glass for one of the front windows, painting every room (including ceilings), new light fixtures, packing up as much stuff as possible, throwing away as much stuff as possible, and moving whatever’s left into temporary storage. It also involves cleaning up our large (almost one acre) yard. It has been hard work but we are pleased with what we’ve been able to do so far. Two of my brothers, one of whom is a painter by profession, are coming this weekend to help push us across the finish line. We really appreciate that.

We made an offer on a house in the far northwestern suburbs of Chicago and the offer was accepted, but we lost the deal earlier this week when someone else made an offer on the house that didn’t include a condition of sale of an existing house. We were pretty sad but we are convinced that God will provide us with or lead us to something better, somehow. I am struggling a lot with emotions about leaving my current job and just dealing with the worries and anxieties of yet another very major upheaval in our lives. The not knowing, the not being certain, about most things is pretty hard to deal with.

We’re leaving Indiana

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I’ve been silent for a long time now. Just a note to explain part of the reason why: I have decided to leave academia once again and go back to my old job at Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. We are shopping for a house somewhere in the west or northwestern suburbs of Chicago and hoping to get our current house ready for sale soon.