Sunday, May 18, 2013

Reading through these pages is time travel. Luke was 13, he was 10, he was 8. The US was at war then. We are still waging war in Afghanistan.

Luke is now 18. Yes, 18. He's getting ready to graduate from Mountain Heritage High School as Valedictorian. He's been accepted into Honors Carolina at Chapel Hill and right now he wants to pursue Biomedical Engineering.

Lisa's health continues to limit her. She spends the majority of her time in bed.

I'm still with Buncombe County IT. I'm doing more project management than coding these days. I continue to enjoy running. Pushing myself. I've had a full spring in that regard. I ran the Asheville Marathon in March, the Dupont State Forest Half in April, and the Cradle to Grave 30K yesterday. I'm sore and beat up but I had a great time. I won my age group at Dupont, and if they had done 5 year instead of 10 year age groups, I would have won the 45-49 group yesterday.

We bought a house in Asheville, on Houston Street back in November, 2012. However, none of our Mitchell County property has sold and Luke isn't getting any financial aid, so we're put the Houston Street house back on the market. It's under contract right now. I hope it closes. I want to get rid of it all. I'm sick of being responsible for so many houses and for three mortgage payments. The Mitchell County houses are sitting empty; un-rented.