About This Blog
March 29, 2007
I set up this blog since it is the first time I see a purpose for a blog. I don’t think, generally, that my life is either that interesting (to others) or that I have that much to share in an open forum that’s not connected to something else to warrant maintaining a public journal, aka a blog, about what I am doing, what I am thinking. However, as I started sharing via e-mail with my family my experiences in setting up house in an old house in Ivy, just west of Charlottesville, Virginia, newly purchased by my wife and me, I changed my mind. A blog, in fact, is a much better way to record my experiences - some funny, some just downright sad as they reflect on my ineptness at doing some things, such as preparing meals - and thoughts as I get accustomed to living by myself in an old house during the week, away from my home with my wife, Mary Ann, in Lynchburg.
I have worked as an instructional designer in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (or “cvlle”) for almost three years and, during that time, rented a room in the basement of a beautiful house just up the road from where I am now living. I did this because my wife and our daughter thought it was silly for me to commute 140 miles RT a day when the cost of gas was continuing to sky rocket and it would eat up almost 3 hours of my work day. However, living in a room is not the same as living in a “home.” Plus, since I had no kitchen available to me, I had to eat all of my meals out! I used to really like to eat out, but trust me, too much of anything DOES get old! And, though my room rental was ridiculously inexpensive, eating out was not!
Now I have to fend for myself and relearn what few cooking talents I may have had at an earlier time in my life. However, I have been greatly spoiled by a wife who loves to cook and does it extremely well. My time during the week in Ivy I look at now as ‘cooking school’ so that, perhaps, one day I can wow her with my culinary expertise!
The house we bought…no, no, I’ll let that come up in my postings and through my pictures. Hopefully, maintaining this blog will provide me with some insights and, just possibly, entertain at least my immediate family as they ‘watch’ me adapt to weekday bachelorhood!
Bill Booz
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