For those of you who have been following the Hockett Housing saga of ‘08, we seem to have progress. Yesterday, we spent 2 hours at our mortgage broker’s home signing what must be at least 150 pages of housing papers. Lucky for us, our escrow officer and mortgage broker live together and so they were able to tag team the explanations of the multitude of papers and we actually came away with a decent understanding of what we were signing. The expectation is that we will fund on Wednesday and file on Thursday. Translation: we should get the keys Thursday or Friday at the very latest. We are cautiously optimistic at this point. It’s not a done deal until we have the keys in our hand! So, for anyone who is around the weekend of September 12th, we are hoping to do the actual move that weekend! We’ll provide pizza and beer in exchange for free labor. And…I would say, it is again safe to broach the topic of the house with us!

Every once and a while we are reminded how fragile life can be. Yesterday, I received that reminder when news broke that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, passed away due to complications from his injuries susstained from an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) accident on 30 June 2008. Béla Fleck and the Flecktones saxophonist Jeff Coffin has been standing in for Moore since the accident while the band has been on tour.

While on the way to work this morning, I popped in the band’s 1998 album, “Before These Crowded Streets.” It seems like those sax lines are more colorful than ever, overpowering the other rhythms and melodies of Dave, Carter, Boyd, Stefan, and Tim. I will miss him terribly on stage and in future albums. May he rest in peace.

“It’s always easier to leave than to be left.” - Dave Matthews

So we’re going to start a 529 plan to save up for college. Wow. I’ve never been this responsible before. I begin to wonder about what school our child will attend, ponder what subject matter they will study, and accept the fact that perhaps they will not even want to go to college. A long time from now, after our child has moved out to experience this world on their own terms, whatever they may be, I will look back on these virtual memories, compare them to the reality of our experience, and laugh quietly to myself…then I’ll blog about it.