One Year Later

Wow, hard to believe that it's been a year since we moved from Indianapolis to Los Gatos. In that time, Christy has settled into her new job. Check out Champions Online to see some of her work. Most of the website content is her writing, as is everything attributed to Kestral, her online handle for Cryptic.

Oddly enough, Bakers Square, the place where we had our first meal in Los Gatos, has closed. The good news is that there's plenty of other places that are better.

I'm still looking for a job, but at least I've been getting interviews. In Indianapolis, I wasn't able to even get one interview in multiple years of job hunting, despite having a degree from a major university, never having been fired and with no criminal record. That's still an improvement. I'll find something eventually.

We were unable to sell our house in Indy, so it'll probably going onto the foreclosure market soon. When we bought our house, we had $10K in equity. If the best offer we received had closed, we would have had a $20K loss. That's a 21% loss of value over seven years. That's for a nice 2000 square foot house on a prime lot in one of the best school districts in Indianapolis. I expect that if/when it finally sells it will be for about half of our purchase price.

I could go on ranting on the state of the economy but I won't.

In any case, it seems our new adventure has become our life. We have a decent place to stay, it's smaller than what we had but we don't really need bigger with it being just the two of us. Over all, our life just isn't that interesting - hence my less than frequent posts here - but it's a happy one.

Thanks for following along with us over the past year.

Best wishes to everyone.