Sounded like a good idea, right? Maybe not so much. We aren’t going to do so after all. After much talking and much deliberation we decided that with how bad the job market is in PDX & given that recently we have loaned money to my brother and then spent more when Maryia became ill and had…

Hey So here is my update. Hopefully it will shed some light on recent things that have been going on. First of all: I hate moving. I will be moving again.. and maybe more than twice in the next 3 months.. maybe more than that beyond that time frame. Who knows. So here is the…

You would think that all the years I have been blogging I would have mentioned a birthday here or there more than just a few times. Well the other day I was looking through my blog & realized that wasn’t the case at all. I’m not sure why. I suppose I just get caught up…