May Reboot
I am drinking an Americano, homemade, in a mug adorned with blue stars and sashes, a golden-winged eagle, and the following inscription:
Lord, grant me
PATIENCE
But I want it
RIGHT NOW!
The mug came with the house. The puppy on my lap did not.
I moved into Sarah & Charlie's new home on February 22nd and, on that very same day, drove nervously to the Seattle-Tacoma airport to receive most precious cargo from Taipei.
Chuquisaca Mona d'Avis, my dear puppy and love and new life focus. Shitbreath. Trauma Runt Rat Deer. Mushmouth. On May 3rd, 2010, I wrote in On Flying:
I never wanted to be a god. I never dreamed of this but instead a warm home, a place that smelled like forever, and a dog to follow my shadow and a partner in whose arms I could soar to the heavens and return to earth every day, every moment.
Written one year ago: where have I landed? I'm not sure about smelling “like forever”—Chuqui exudes a multitude of stinks that do not particularly evoke the wonder and grace of infinity—but I am home here with Charlie, Sarah, and Little Wigglebutt. Every day I live is with the certainty that I am responsible for another being. Every day I live is with the certainty that I have a place—not of my own but, even better, with my immediate household and larger Seattle family. Every day I live is with the certainty that, even if I become a total jerk, I will still see my friends by virtue of Chuqui's cuteness.
Indeed, I offered the goal of dog ownership some three months ago, in A New and Honest and Awesome Beginning. Own a dog before the age of thirty? Check, done, huzzah. But how are my other goals proceeding? Am I fucking awesome yet?
May Reboot
For some years, the web design community has flagged May 1st for launching new versions of (personal) websites. Celebrate Spring! Celebrate our work and creativity! I would not say the movement is still in vogue and I cannot, unfortunately, offer a new design of drewd today. I do find myself again in a time of transition and with a renewed desire to invest in creation and creativity. How will my energies be spent? On what topics will I attempt to write here?
May marks my return to consulting. I have finished my employment at Cloops. deCielo will become Decielo, and I will enter a legal, rather than de facto, partnership with Brooke. So we hope for success and more good to come!
Chuqui and I will travel to Massachusetts this weekend to reunite with my family: parents, sister, brother-in-law, and niece all. Sunday marks Nicole's first Mother's Day; I have not seen my niece, Clarabelle, since before the new year.
Sarah and Charlie will be married in eleven days, in Maine. I will be officiating their wedding. Joy! And! A little bit scary! (Me officiating, not you two getting hitched.)
I have set the goal of running a sub-5-minute mile by my 30th birthday, December 9th and a group of Seattle friends have joined me in this pursuit with monthly mile races. My fastest so far was 5:20 in March, a significant gain from the initial 5:42 in January. I am training consistently and intensely at a local gym, Seattle Strength & Performance; I feel strong and fast already.
I have more websites to design and build, or redesign and rebuild, than I care to list here. Of particular priority are Decielo, Whit Scott, and POPE FACT.
And I want to journal more and draw more and I want to keep roasting chickens and install a picture rail in my bedroom. I want to finish the half a dozen different books I am currently reading. Patience then, but perseverance as well. I invite you, earnestly, to check up on me, via email or phone or Twitter or whatever. May I, please, continue?
