From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Our First Place

August 28, 2008

Today at 2:30 PM we will be closing on our new house. We may not have been chosen to be on TV, but there was plenty of drama anyway.
Our story really began in November of 2007, when we first started looking for a house. And by “looking for a house” I mean “Carrie started looking [...]

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Help Wanted!

August 27, 2008

If you know of (or are) a good mid-level Windows system engineer looking for a good job in downtown Chicago for a cool e-commerce company, please send their resume to me at mstratton@apartments.com. Here’s the job description:
Systems Engineer – Corporate Services

Job Description

Be an integral member of a team of Microsoft systems engineers supporting systems [...]

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Suburb woes

August 27, 2008

Someone remind me why we’re leaving the city…
I just looked into parking at the Lisle train station. There is a five to seven year waiting list to get a parking permit. If you do not have a parking permit, you can buy a daily permit – but they go on sale at 8 AM and [...]

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House update

August 21, 2008

I’m really tired right now and did not have a great day (car died on the Eisenhower and Scout and I had to wait for a tow truck by the side of the road) but I did want to let you all know that:
1) We have been completely approved for our loan (and a quarter [...]

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Amazing

August 15, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbI8BSKfBe0In case you haven’t seen it – Shawn Johnson’s beam routine in the Team Finals last night was SICK. Holy crap was this good.

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Boom shaka laka BOOM BOOM

August 5, 2008

No Parking
Originally uploaded by Matt Stratton.
In case you didn’t notice, there was a big honkin’ storm last night. Carrie, Scout, and I actually ended up down in the basement for about 20 minutes when we heard the tornado sirens go off (especially when I read in the NWS alert that “the tornado” would [...]

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