Hope is the thing...

Yesterday, we finished negotiating a contract to sell our Midtown house, so we should be able to join John in Decatur in mid-April. Nice news. The housing market has been slowing - after we bought and increasingly as we have been selling. Still, we had a good amount of traffic through our house. I called them tourists, because they seemed more interested in seeing a true Arts & Crafts home in vintage condition than in buying. So much for another phase of life and on to the next. Maybe there will be time for some rest when it arrives.

For "Spring Break" John moved into his basement apartment in our new Decatur house. Some of the decorating is temporary, since we still have most of our furniture in Midtown, but he is staying there overnight now, so that makes the move official to me.

I dropped some boxes off there last night and it was great to see how excited John is about it all. He has been at the mercy of his own sickness and doctors and living in hospitals, spare bedroom and such for so long that having a place of his own is a marker of sorts that shows in his eyes and in his energy. It is good to see again.

Of course, he is coming back over for dinner, so I'd better be off and tend to that!

I'm back from one trip and about to take two quick ones this week. I'm speaking at the annual meeting of the International Association of Privacy Professionals on responding to subpoenas. It's a dry topic in some respects, but it is also quite current, since it there is so much in the news about warrantless surveillance, the Patriot Act's renewal, the government wanting to know what your Google searches are and so forth.

John starts midterms today. He is trying very hard to prepare, and I can see how hard it is to summon the mental energy he needs. Some of the difficulty is having been away from school for a year, but I can tell he is also not fully back in terms of energy and maybe concentration. I am glad to be able to handle cleaning and such for him and Debbie has been cooking every night, all of which helps a lot.

Next week John has Spring Break, and we plan to get him moved over to the new house. We have his space clean and about set up.

It was sad to learn about Dana Reeves passing from lung cancer. Irony can be as sad as life at times, and I feel for their son and the rest of the family.

I'm away in Phoenix for a few days. I have a moment to update, but not that much to report. Moving John into the new house has been slowed a bit by hot water heater problems. We hope that will be finished this weekend.

Spring has begun early in Atlanta. We have fresh grass coming up and flowers coming out, which means that home buyers may begin to venture out more often.

Courtney is travelling during her Spring Break with a friend. While in Blackberry range today, she sent this report:

Hey dadio! Yes, so far the travelimg has been awesome! We watched some carnaval festivals in pisac, then made our way to puno, spent the night with an awesome family on the island of amantani, and now we're off to copacabana and the isla del sol. Its been so wonderful, and I even found a bonsai shop (you would put them to shame).

I don't know where all those places are, but it does sound like the ultimate Spring Break trip.