Life

Twenty Seven

By brock on Mon 23 Aug 2010, 10:06 pm

A couple important-to-me milestones are looming on the horizon. Late November marks five years since I finished college and moved to DC. But before that, I'll turn 27 in October.

Both make me stop and think. Five years out of college isn't an important milestone, but I tend to look at things from both directions. For example, I left RIT five years ago. I like to compare that timeframe with the same amount of time before that. So, five years before leaving RIT (and thus, ten years before this November), I was just a couple months into my senior year of high school. When I compare where I was in my life then, in high school, to where I was five years later as I left RIT, there's a world of difference. But in the same period of time on the other side of that placeholder in history - the five years since - I don't feel that I have progressed as much. Sure, I've grown personally, emotionally, and professionally, but I can't help but feel like I should be further along somehow. Read more »

Three Years

By brock on Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:19 am

Three years ago tonight, I met my lovely wife Erin.

We both went to see Sunshine - she with the Indie Film Meetup, and me with the Sunday Night Film Club. The two groups had arranged to get together afterwards, and so we met each other over a crappy meal and disagreed about the movie - I liked it, she didn't.

Along with a few other people, we went to the bar for drinks after dinner, and the two of us got to talking about music and religion. A week later, she Facebook-stalked me to invite me out with some friends. Later that weekend, we went to a punk show together. Another week after that, we went on our first date. Exactly four months after that, we signed a lease on our first apartment together. Four more months after that, I proposed, and we were wed a year and a half later. Read more »

Our Wedding and Honeymoon (Finally!)

By brock on Tue 23 Mar 2010, 8:47 pm

It's hard to believe that Erin and I celebrated our six-mothiversary last week. We were married on September 19 near her parents' home outside Detroit, Michigan. It's almost surreal to look back on it now: after spending 18 months planning and preparing for the biggest day of your life, it's a little disorienting when the day comes, and just like that, it's over and behind you and holy crap, has it been six months already? Read more »

2010

By brock on Sat 2 Jan 2010, 12:53 am

New Year's Day seems less and less important with each passing year. I know I'm not good with resolutions, so I've never really bothered with them, but I still feel like I should at least take a moment to look back and think forward and consider where I am compared to where I want to be.

I almost said that I'm in the same place I was last year, but that couldn't be further from the truth. 2009 brought me a wedding to a lovely lady, the adoption of an adorable dog, a zero balance on my credit cards, and just last month, a new job. Read more »

Apartment Wish List, Part 1

By brock on Tue 8 Sep 2009, 8:33 pm

As much as I love our current apartment, things could always be a little bit better in some way, no matter where you are. I'm calling this Part 1 because I'm sure I'll think of more, but for now, I'd love me some:

Street-level bike parking

Our building has a bike rack in the parking garage below the building. It's indoor behind a locked door, so it's better than outside, but it still didn't keep Erin's last bike from being stolen. Read more »

25 And Over « Tomato Nation

By brock on Tue 26 May 2009, 9:11 pm

This one's about four years old, but new to me thanks to kottke. Some of this stuff really irks me in my peers. My favorite: Read more »

On Home Finances

By brock on Wed 25 Mar 2009, 7:23 pm

I need thought I would be the kind of guy to clip coupons, but you see, Safeway includes some stats on their receipts. They tell you how much you saved with your club card, how much you saved from coupons, and the total percentage off your order.

Now, it's like a game. Tonight, I got 34%. Not bad, and I saved about $21, but my high score is 44%.

Seriously, what am I turning into?

The pursuit of happiness [dive into mark]

By brock on Mon 9 Mar 2009, 7:02 pm

I really like this. Straight from dive into mark: The pursuit of happiness. Read more »

Things I Have Been Enjoying Lately

By brock on Sun 25 Jan 2009, 8:25 pm
  • Coke Vanilla Zero
  • Pretzels
  • Not being a parent
  • My new MacBook Pro and the huge cinema display I use it with at work
  • Simpsons re-runs
  • Our new apartment

Moving On Up

By brock on Sun 25 Jan 2009, 7:55 pm

Erin and I have been in our lovely new apartment for a week now, and we love it. Because we decided to move at the last minute, we wound up paying rent on both the old and new place for January. That kind of sucked, but it turned out to be a blessing because we couldn't get the loading dock at the old place until the middle of the month anyway, and then we rented it out to a family for the Inauguration after we moved out. Read more »

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