relocation

Happy Birthday, America! Happy Fourth of July! A lot has happened in the past few months... but in short we've sold our home, paid off our debts, put our stuff into storage and moved to Richmond! We found a buyer and after some negotiations with him signed a purchase agreement. We finished packing up our things and moved out last weekend, putting most of our stuff into a storage unit that's near our future home. We closed escrow last week and have moved up to Richmond to stay with family until our new house is complete. We had looked at renting an apartment but it seemed like a hassle and for the short term (four months) that we needed it, it wouldn't have been so cheap. So now we have a bit of a lengthy commute for the next few months but we're saving a lot more money by not renting. It's kind of a weird feeling not having a mortgage or any substantial debt to our names. Though that will certainly change again very soon when we move into the new house.

In the meantime, work continues as busy as ever... I had one trial that was scheduled to take place in Boston right about now but it was dismissed just before we were set to leave. I was a little disappointed we didn't get to go to Boston again but I guess I'd probably be working right now (on July 4th) if it had gone forward. But now my other case has been extremely busy and we're gearing up for the next trial in DC that starts in September.

I took some photos recently of an airshow - I didn't actually go to the airshow but it was going on outside of my office building one Saturday while I was working. It's kind of hard to keep focused when there's Harrier jets flying around outside your window. So I took a break and with the power of my 70-300mm lens was able to capture some of the cool aircraft flying around.