The 8th Life

I guess I'm kind of like a cat, although I hope I have more than 9 lives, since I'm already on number 8. Or maybe I'lll just stop using them up so quickly.


Let's review;

1. 1968 - born in Jersey, later move to Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 
2. 1986 - Off to college at Fairfield, CT
3. 1990 - Jamaica, WI, to build houses, teach, and see the world.
4. Lodi, NJ with Susan; we marry in 1994
5. 1998 - Down to NOVA, buy house in McLean, VA.
6. 2007 - Sue and I agree to separate. In a desperate attempt at staying sane, I move to Madrid, Spain.
7. Aug. 8, 2012 - Due to the economic collapse in Spain, and the fact that I needed to come home eventually, I repatriate to CT and live with Mum
8. Mum moves to Jersey. I am living on my own for the first time and inherit a whole new heap of bills living on my own and get laid off the same week Mum moves (can you say fuck!) Sept. 17 - I accept a job offer from a UK company here in the US, launching recruiting software in the USA.

That's a lot of stuff to pack into 46 years, but we all have our own fascinating stories. No life is the same. Every person is like an individual snowflake.

She said luck is all you make it
You just reach out and take it
Now let's dance a while

She said nothing ever happens
If you don't make it happen
And if you can't laugh then smile

But after a while
You realize time flies
And the best thing that you can do
Is take whatever comes to you
'Cause time flies

And laughing under summer showers
Is still the way I see you now

-Porcupine Tree

And so it begins.