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So Emily, Etta, and I took a nice little trip down to Hendersonville/Asheville, NC for the week. It is sort of an experiment to see what it is like to have a normal work week in a different location from home. We have been planning on spending some time with our friends down here and we finally had enough by the end of the holidays and after a couple cancelled trips on our behalf, and we decided to take the plunge!

We left Saturday afternoon and stopped half-way in a city just south of Cincinnati on the Kentucky side of the border, it was a great little town that has a nice 'Main Street' strip filled with German restaurants and pubs, we stayed at the Marriott Courtyard for the night and grabbed Waffle House the next morning on our way out. Needless to say this was the perfect second day start to a trip down south. Etta had her first experience at a Waffle House and she couldn't have been happier looking at all of the people, employees, and longing for her side of zasage (sausage.)

Now we are in Hendersonville and I decided to work the later part of the day at a fine little Irish pub in downtown Hendersonville, it's called Hannah Flannigan's. I found a spot on the non-smoking side by the window where the afternoon sun is shining in on what would otherwise be a couple coffee shop living room chairs, I have my pint of Bass Ale, my laptop, free WiFi, and I'm getting work done! This is the best off-site spot I think I've ever worked at.... news item »

I love my family. news item »

So we just had the lease signed for our house, this means we get to move into a bigger place where I can have an office again and Etta can move around and play with her toys in a fun, dedicated area!

We found a house in Ferndale that looks like the one and we will most likely sign on that tomorrow too... everything is moving so fast!

So this past weekend (Labor Day) marks the first time Etta really started walking on her own.

Now she just wants to stand up, try walking, plops down on her butt, then gets right back up and tries to walk again. Our 668 square foot house is a little small for her to make any real strides, but luckily we have somebody coming over tomorrow to sign a lease on our house and the three of us are going to be looking for a bigger place now! The crazy part is that we have to be out of our house in 3 weeks!!!! news item »

So I'm sure most of the former brianbawol.com followers stopped coming here some time ago when I had to change servers and just never got the site back up.

Well I'm back and on my own server at my house now, so I have no excuses.

What has happened in the past... oh... 10 months?

• Oleinick/Bawol family trip to Hawaii (Maui) for 8 days
• Etta turned one
• The Detroit Red Wings lost in the Stanley Cup Playoffs
• Ted Kennedy Died
• Michael Jackson Died
• We got a Subaru Forester for our baby car
• More buddies had babies
• ... and much more

I'll sign off with this for now but check back later and maybe I'll get my butt in gear and put up some more content!

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