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Quick Beach Vacation 2010

Well today is Saturday, we returned home from the beach last night. (so depression has set in) Our schedules this summer have really been crazy so all we could squeeze in were a few days. I’ve had a bunch of projects that have really made it hard to get an entire week free. Jess’s Summer School has been keeping her very busy too so things just did not work out this year for a normal length vacation. However with all that we still had a good time.

We didn’t really have time to take a lot of pictures and I forgot the regular camera. So all the shots you see are from my iPhone 3gs including the video.

Enjoy!

Thought I would play with making a video of the waves.

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A short somewhat informational few paragraphs about what has been going on at the Stapleton Mansion or Just Catching Up whichever you prefer.

Greetings and Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers

As usual I have let the blog do way to long without a lengthy entry.  I hope you are finding my weekly twitter digests filling in the gaps and seeing what we have been up to.  Since the last lengthy entry was on October  11th lets see what we have been into.

The rest of October, November, and the first half of December was filled with nothing but business travel.  Jess continued to teach and learn the ropes at Huntington High School.  She really loves her kids and her job; I am happy she gets to use her gifts everyday.  At Christmas I took 13 days off and had a good time enjoying all the new AV gear that I got for Christmas.  Jess and I bought a HDTV & Blu-Ray player for our Christmas present to each other.  To which I spent my vacation time fully enjoying.  (I never really get to just veg)

Also for Christmas I got my Direct TV HD-DVR and my long-awaited AppleTV which gives me access to the 2 terabytes worth of video I have in iTunes.  You see I have been working for the last 2 years to get all my DVD’s into and electronic easy to move format.  To that end every DVD and former VHS tape that I own is now in iTunes its like my own little Video on Demand system.  This makes up my media utopia of having everything at my fingers tips wherever and whenever I want it.  Good geek stuff!

Christmas 2009 Photos

 

That brings us to the end of my vacation and Jess’s Christmas break.

Jess did not work too much of her first week back to school due to the weather.  So she was home when her Reduction in Force (RIF) letter came from the CCBOE. She was understandably upset but upon further investigation this is just one of those things that you go through in teaching.  She will almost definitely have a job next year maybe even in the same room.  Keeping the same room would really be great for her she loves her kids.  Since they can stay with her for many years up until age 21 the relationship is quite a bit different the normal student teacher relationship.  She can conceivably have the same kids all day everyday for up to 7 years.

That pretty much brings us up to the end of January.  Sorry to be so boring but just telling you about working everyday would not be to thrilling.  We hope that this posting finds you and yours doing well.  Until the next update that’s the news and I am outta here.

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Today is 3 years

Yep its hard to believe that three years ago today we moved into what was then our “new house”.  Since then we have remodeled the entire house finishing up the inside during my vacation in October of last year.  Which was not all that bad when you think about all the days I have been on the road.  Technically we have been in the house 1095 days and of those days I have spent about 225 nights on the road.  So if you do the math I have been gone 20% of the time that we have owned the house (29% of the time if you just count business days).

Enough math now the important bit.  Like any good homeowner I have before and after pictures showing all the work.  Sure I could just post the pics but a movie is always better enjoy!