So yeah, kinda neglected this page for a while. Sorry about that.<\/p>\n
It appears that I am married. I can tell because there is a rather large silver band around my left ring finger. When it was all said and done, the wedding day went quite well. There were a few stresses (which I imagine are to be expected), but in all it went over very well. People had a good time, our ceremony was unique and relevant, and finally, all of that planning came to fruition.<\/p>\n
I was slightly surprised to see that before the ceremony I was feeling quite edgy. Not quite nervous, but man. The women have it much easier in a way. They get to play and get their hair done, do their make-up, get ready with the dress, all that shit. It pretty much takes up their entire morning up until the ceremony begins. Me? I did laundry. Emptied the dishwasher. Didn’t really have shit to do aside from wait. And think. Once things were going, it was much better for me. And my wife? Fucking gorgeous in her dress.<\/p>\n
Being married kicks ass.<\/p>\n
The honeymoon was also pretty great. It was pretty much exactly what we both needed. It was long enough that we got to see and do lots of cool shit, while being just long enough that by the last day, we were pretty much ready to come back home and take a few days to decompress. San Francisco was lots of fun. We always had things to do everyday, but we had also always managed to leave some time in our schedule so if we wanted to do something else a little more spontaneous, we had more than enough time to do it.<\/p>\n
This turned out to be good as many of the best things were spontaneous. The most notable was a side trip down a road to a northern peninsula that dumped us on a short foot trail that emptied out on the Pacific Ocean. Magnificent. And the drive around that part of the state was incredibly fun. Driving along California 1 is tons of fun if you are into that kind of thing. It was great, I didn’t even think about work until the afternoon before we came back.<\/p>\n
So here we are, about 6 weeks or so since we have been married. Nothing really seems all that different, after all, we had already been living together (in sin!) for the last year, and before that we might as well have been living together, just with our shit spread apart between 2 apartments. I think what it really comes down to is that the difference is in more how people perceive you and your relationship. The change (somewhat against the normal grain) comes more from outside rather than in.<\/p>\n
I’ve been busting my ass as best I can at work. I don’t think that I am working faster than before. If anything, I think I’m slower. I do feel, however, that the quality of my work is the best that it has been. For working in a highly creative field, this really makes me feel good. I’m most pleased with how far ahead I’m managing to plan visually, often months before I will get around to making it happen. This is good. Still, the whole wedding thing kinda set me back a bit. My list of things to do is a little over half done, so with some luck, I’ll be making solid headway on that over the next week.<\/p>\n
We also have made some new purchases. With the wedding money, we were finally able to get a new dining room table and chair set to replace the hand-me-down stuff we had been using. It wasn’t bad, they were sturdy and solid, they were just rather old, beaten up, and showing their age. My computer also had a bit of a temper tantrum while we were gone on the honeymoon, and since my computer is pretty much my total life line for my work, something needed to be done. The result is a fantastic new machine I built. I had not built a machine entirely on my own in years. I was pleased that I was able to make it happen with an absolute minimum of issues. We also ended up getting a Playstation 3. Holy shit. People were right. Once you have it, you get it. It’s going to be an incredible machine, and it really is the media center of our entire home and network. Wow. We picked up the BBC “Planet Earth” 4 disc Blu-Ray set to go along with it and our 1080p TV. Holy shit. Stunning.<\/p>\n
So yeah. I’m back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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