Has It Really Been A Year?

Over a year since my last post? Wow...that's bad. REALLY bad.

Here's the express version: I returned from Iraq safe and relatively sound in late June 2008, took about a month off and then went back to work. Since then, the main excitements in my life have been a couple of Penn State home games, watching the Pittsburgh Steelers win the Super Bowl (sorry, neighbors!) and enjoying a wonderful holiday season with my family. Oh...I'm finally getting a garage door opener after living in this house for about six and half years.

I am once again fully immersed in my daily grind at work. The alarm bleats at 4:30 AM every weekday, and I trudge downtown to catch an early train and be in the office in Washington, DC by 7:00 AM. I'm not exactly a morning person--but a 7:00 AM arrival means that I can generally leave by about 3:30 PM and be home by 5:30. Heck, I'd have to get up pretty early even to be there by 8:00 or 8:30 so I might as well get home at a decent hour and have time to relax and/or do chores.

Despite all this, I am glad to be home and I try to find something to treasure in every day.