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welcome our newest blogger: the Mrs.

for about a decade now, mikeyboy.com has been a solo blog. just me, blathering about just what i’m thinking about, sporadically.

that doesn’t really reflect who i am though, or my life and what affects me. for the past eight years, someone has been by my side for this crazy ride we call ‘life.’ and since her blog has become focused on taxes and business, she’s needed an outlet to post about what goes on in our lives outside of work*.

so with much further ado, i present to you: the Mrs. welcome, carrie, to mikesusz.com!

(*or maybe she just got tired of how infrequently i update)

wistful posts episode VI: a new hope

i promised you there would be only three of these (first, second), so this is the last one. one year ago. carrie and i were on our second, and final, trip back east. we had just driven from arkansas to nashville, spent a day in nashville, and had dinner with friends in kentucky. then we […]

all about the benjamins

i promise i will keep the wistful postings to a minimum. but here’s another (there will probably be three total). exactly one year ago – rather, on this date last year at this exact time (this is a Leap Year, remember) i had left Washington Mutual‘s offices for the last time, and i was having […]

one year ago

what can change in a year; a job? a house? the city/state/time zone you live in? how about all of the above? yes, a year ago at this time, we were in the middle of executing our plan to move from Washington back to New Hampshire. we finished and sold the house, moved the trucks […]

Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk: Boston, August 15-17 2008

the Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is an annual nationwide even taking place in major cities throughout the summer. in each city, volunteers sign up, train, and raise donation money, in order to be able to participate in the 3 Day, 60 mile walk. my wife, carrie, while […]

wiggy. weekend. weather.

okay, it wasn’t the weekend. but i had to throw in the reference to LA Story, one of my favorite movies of all time. we’ve been enjoying, in new england, the remnants of some hurricane or something. a spiral of precip came through yesterday with band after band moving over us in a line, almost […]

this is the new ocean

we watched some of our DVR backlog this morning with brunch. since seeing the first in the series, i have been enthralled with Discovery Channel’s When We Left Earth. i’m not generally a heart-on-my-sleeve kind of guy, but i tend to get emotional watching these shows. i think it’s something about the enormity of the […]

happy 4th of july

i hope everyone enjoys a fun and safe independence day holiday today.

my workspace

while the view is quite different from what i had in seattle, i do get full control over setting up my workspace however i like it. my desk was cheap (and carrie has an identical one) – $99/each at a used office furniture store. they have cranks that adjust the height of the work surface. […]

nixed tweets

just a quick site news update – had to remove the Twitter Tools widget from the utility column. Twitter is having issues (again) and the plugin i was using to retrieve my latest tweets was not written to handle Twitter being unavailable. it may return in the future, but breath holding is not recommended.