Life

Wedding time is closing in upon us. After being engaged for 607 days, it’s about time it happened.

Both Debra and I are hard at work creating things for all the details of the wedding. She’s making centerpieces from fake flowers and wine bottles (Picture to be added); I’m making signs in Adobe Illustrator. It’s crazy chaotic, but really fun and exciting in the process.

So now that we’re in the home stretch, it’s good to know that eventually we’ll have to “put down the metaphorical pencil” and finally be finished. I think, for the most part, everything is coming together pretty nicely. There’s no major issues, at the moment, that are in need of solution.

To Debra: “We go together like peanut butter and onions. You’re the peanut butter and I’m the onions, because I make little bitches cry.”
-Tom

“OH BABY A TRIPLE”, ok maybe not quite, but it was a double kill.

I was headed to work yesterday, and some woman in a Minivan decided to pull out of a gas station, turning left across three lanes (one was a turn lane, the diagram isn’t quite correct) of traffic to smash into my car in the fourth, the farthest from her point of origin. See the diagram below:

So much has happened since my last post and a lot of things were left out of my post from when I started the blog. Four years ago was the last time I wrote about anything life releated. Let’s start with a quick bulleted list, ordered by significance.

• Engaged to Debra
• Planning wedding for June 2015
• Living in apartment with Deb and a little orange tabby
• Completed various projects (which need to be documented!)
• Went to PAX East twice
• Traveled to Canada more times in the last 2 years than all of my life (4x for buisness, 2x for pleasure)
• Migrated the blog to a more reliable/faster machine
• Working at Meggitt full-time as CSeries Lead Software Engineer for the Brake Control System

I’m sure there are other things that just aren’t coming to mind, but there’s been a lot of changes in four years. This year and last specifically though, have been milestone years. Friends/co-workers having babies, buying homes, traveling the world and starting families. Not necessarily all of those, but that’s the gist. I’m getting excited for the future though, as each day passes we’re closer to being debt free and can live a bit more comfortably.