I've been too busy to post anything here. With the boys and the new house both needing attention, I've not had time to do much here -- plus I don't have much to complain about any longer.
The boys are a hand-full. Constantly getting into things, falling over things, and generally carrying-on. The wife takes most of the brunt of this, but for whatever part I play, I'm exhausted. When it comes down to it though, after they've gone to bed for the night, I find myself wishing that I could have spent more time with them while they were awake.
The new house is working out fine. No real issues with it and I'm having fun playing in the mud while trying to get grass to grow in the back and side yards (we didn't spring for sod in those locations -- only the front yard is sod.)
The street that we live on has just tons of kids close to the boys' age, so that will be fun when they get a little older and can go outside and play on their own. For now, we try to keep outside activities to places like playgrounds where they aren't just a few feet away from a street and where there are swings and slides.
As far as the usual gripes or grumblings that are the usual for this blog, I have none at the moment. We did very well when we sold the old house and now live in an area where we don't have crack-heads walking our street at all hours of the day and night and stealing anything that isn't bolted-down. It's also nice not to have street urchins (future crack-heads) running around throwing trash in our yard and also stealing whatever the crack-heads might have missed.
There's something to be said about now living in an area where basic morals are common for everyone in the neighborhood (not just the people trying to make the neighborhood better). I can leave my garden hose outside without having some criminal a la 715 S. Boylan deciding to use my home as his "Home Depot" (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z076DOi-fkM for details).
If we accidentally leave our car doors unlocked, there's little chance that we'll find the contents of the car strewn on the ground outside the driver's door in the morning (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C69bNjLCrOk for details).
For the moment, Apex really is the peak of good living.
P.S.: I hear that someone's boat broke down and was adrift somewhere along the east coast. Says something about the quality of work that went into it I guess.