i've been a bad, bad blogger :)

is the summer over? amazing! has it been a busy summer? it must have been. was it a good summer? well, if the adage "time flies when you are having fun" is true, it was.
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i had a lovely family trip to the TX coast (port A dude) but the pics are so similar to last year's, that they are hardly worth posting. i moved to a new apartment. to anyone who knows me, that will not come as a surprise :). it's not that i enjoy moving (i'm no psycho masochist) but i do keep thinking the next place will be better (paging dr freud! ok - i'm not sure that was his specialty :)). but i do have a STUNNING view of lake merritt now. pics will be posted above.
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i have a trip planned to india; that makes me happy. i bought a new camera; that makes me happy. my company is RIFing the hell out of my division; that doesn't make me happy. my nephew is healthy post-bonemarrow transplant; that makes me happy.
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but i knew something would get me blogging again. you know how some friendship-indescretion (a forgotten party, birthday, etc) calls for an apology that you don't follow thru on promptly? and every day that passes magnifies your culpability exponentially? but finally something happens (if you are lucky and the person is a valued friend) to break the logjam? well, that didn't happen but blogging is kinda like that. something happened today to make me want to write.
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that being said (unnecessarily - but isn't that what this is all about?) i will post the experience that moved me to write after a post a pic or 2. CHEERS!