My father always maintained that I am the single most optimistic person he had ever known. I am that guy that keeps digging for the pony in the barn filled with horseshit. So when I tell you all that me and Mrs. Dog are going to lose our house to foreclosure, most folks are probably going to see it a a another in series of bad news posts about my personal life.
However I don't see it that way and I am not going to spend any time weeping about it. It is what it is, and I think that it is an opportunity. We will be moving close to Washington DC and Baltimore, a little patch of nowhere called Damascus MD. It is 45 miles from each of those big cities but the cost of living will be relatively low for us and we will be near family.
I see it as an opportunity to reduce the amount of stuff in our lives and to take a better shot at being one of the Professional Left, as in a blogger and editor that gets paid for doing this kind of work. Being closer to the center of the political universe is only going to make that more likely.
Mrs. Dog has worked for the Federal government and political organizations before, so she is going to have a chance a better jobs as well. All in all it is going to be an adventure.
There are not a lot of folks that really get a chance to reinvent themselves in the middle of their lives. We are all tied down with our houses and jobs and think that we have to do what we have been doing for the foreseeable future. While I did not choose to have that illusion stripped away, it is gone now and so I am going to embrace the chance that a left turn in life has given me and my wife.
We are lucky in that we don't have kids, so we don't have little people counting on us and we can take more risks in our new life. Still I have no idea if this will pan out or not.
What I do know is that I am really looking forward to meeting any MD or VA or DC Kossacks face to face! We will be moving in mid July and sometime in early August we really must plan some kind of "Beltway and Beyond" meet up!
So no condolences, I only want ya'll to wish me luck in my new (and mildly scary) adventure in the great wilds of the DC-Baltimore Metroplex.
The floor is yours!