That's Our House!

I don't know if everyone knows to do this, but click "That's Our House" above to see what I'm talking about. Clicking "Stanley" below takes you to a CNN story that was the basis for that post, but clicking "That's Our House" takes you to a public 360 view from the middle of our street that includes our house, courtesy of Google maps (you may have to click the A, and then "Street View"). I checked my friend's house in Detroit, and there's a view right in front of his house also (Dave, it's not paranoia if they really are out to get ya...) but I checked my Dad's house in Lincoln, Nebraska and the closest you could get was the nearest major thoroughfare.

Isabelle is gone with the girls visiting Grandma. So lonely...so lonely...so lonely.......

Alive and Thriving

David Allen Harrison is not the kind of name you want to try to track down on the internet. When his AOL address, MTMDavid@aol.com (MTM = Marvin The Martian), went defunct about 9 years ago, I lost touch with him, a former college roommate. At the time I last saw him, in 1998, he was about to get married.

I went to great lengths to try to connect with him again, even signing up at Classmates.com for his high school class with the name Marvin Martian. No luck.

Well, this spring, after I had given up, another former college roommate of both Dave's and mine at different times managed to track Dave down via Linked In, the social network for career professionals. So we found out that he was living in Beaverton, OR. Isabelle and the kids and I were already planning to visit my sister Courtney in Cottage Grove, so we worked in a visit with Dave and his family. Yesterday he and his wife Cindy celebrated their tenth anniversary, and their five-year-old twins, Leah and Samantha, start kindergarten today.

We just got back from the trip yesterday. Here are some photos.

Chloe and Julia on the beach

Us at Crater Lake

Aunt Courtney and Her Nieces