This is why I miss home. 

Picture above

The picture above is one I took while at home in Ellenburg last December. On the way to a family Christmas party, the day after a good snowfall, I decided to stop on the Narrows Bridge of Chateaugay Lake. Looking north, this is the view that greeted me. The evergreens covered in snow prompted Michaelene to sing out, with a smile on her face, "Christmas town!" We agreed that, if there ever were such thing as a Santa Claus, he'd surely live somewhere like this. With as much travelling as I've done, I'm hard-pressed to name a place with a natural beauty as diverse as the Adirondacks. Summer, fall, and winter are all filled with breath-taking images like this one. No matter how far away I am, this is where my soul is at home.

Back for a bit

Well it's been a good 4 1/2 months since my last post, so I figured it was high time for another one. Maybe this one will last through the summer, who knows? Life in Rochester is great. I'm enjoying it much more than in PA. Knowing people here has been a great help, but we've also met a lot of really cool people thru work, who get together socially as well. We're settled in now and it feels like we live here, no longer a "we-just-moved-in" kind of thing.
Work's okay, it's a job. I've always known that I wanted to do something with my life where I can help people. I'm feeling lately that I don't have a great passion for PT, but knowing that I am helping people has been getting me through it. So in the meantime, while I try to sort things out and decide what I want to do with my life, I'm trying to find new hobbies.
I still enjoy playing guitar, and want to get back into taking lessons up here. I'm slowing down on my genealogy research for the time being, with the hope of getting caught up on the website, trying to get what I already have up there first. I don't care what people say, you know, that only 50 year old men do genealogy. I've always been big into family and big into history, so it only makes sense that I get into family history. Why should I wait 30 years to get started? Oh yeah, since I mentioned it, the website is http://www.shutts.net/ . Check it out. My cousin, Casey, did all the design for it. I've put a little bit of it up, but he's done most of the work for the site. I give him credit for all the parts that look good, and take the blame for everything that looks like crap. We just got a new PC and I plan to get Dreamweaver, so I'll be taking it over permanently soon.
I also want to get into digital photography. It's been a very minor interest for a long time, but I feel like it's something I'm decent at and will enjoy doing. It's also a hobby that leaves you with an end product, something tangible to show for your efforts. I'll be putting up some of my current pictures on my photobucket page: http://photobucket.com/albums/v127/veddie10/
And I might try to get into a soccer team in the Rochester league. It's pretty big around here, so I'm not sure if I'm ready for it yet. Maybe I'll just start with some indoor to get my feet wet again. We'll see.
So anyway, that's a quick update on what I'll be working at this summer. Stay tuned for more.