I'm a celebrity!

Recently I appeared in two publications. I don't want to brag, but I don't know of many Weidners who have had pictures and/or quotes in print!

The first article is from Engineering Inc., an engineering trade magazine. They interviewed me and wrote an article about electronic collaboration in the corporate world. At Pennoni, we are using corporate instant messaging technology, which is hot right now.

http://www.acec.org/publications/mar-apr06/techspeaking.pdf

For the other article, I was asked about how we control internet access in the corporate world. At Pennoni, we use Websense Enterprise.

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/erp/print.php/3592631

Pictures of the house

So I finally had a minute to search for photos of our new house. As it turns out, we only have pictures from the day we moved in back in December. After you see the pictures, you'll see that the entire house was white. Since we moved in, we've painted every room on the bottom two floors and the office. Then we ran out of painting momentum and moved on to other projects...more expensive projects...Our current windows are originals, the kind of antique you don't want in your house, so we're having new ones installed. We're excited, as installation should occur in the next two weeks. Right now, we're having to take care of more structural issues, like stucco repair and roof maintenance to seal it up and stop a leak we're having. We'd rather be buying furnishings or remodeling our bathroom or the kitchen, but that'll have to wait until we know our house has sound plumbing and electric (we're trying to resolve flickering lights this week) and doesn't leak.

I'm glad I work from home because I meet with at least one or two contractors every week or two these days. You might be wondering why on earth we bought this house, and we do too sometimes. Well, even though we have some things to take care of with the house, it's a great space. It's secure in that we live between two city blocks that require keypad or a key to access the courtyard, and we're in a prime location. I can walk to the Italian Market (or Pat's or Geno's for a cheesesteak) in about 3-5 minutes. Market Street and City Hall are about a 10 minute walk. We're in the middle of everything and we love it. And, once all these house issues are taken care of and we can start on the fun stuff, like ripping out and remodeling our bathroom, I think we'll enjoy it even more.

Maybe tomorrow I'll post about all the things I've been doing since we moved here. Most involve food, but since I'm trying to get back to a disciplined eating and fitness routine I've been limiting my food trips lately. And when Markus gets back from Knoxville maybe he can post about his own topic, or take some new pictures of the house so you can see how different it looks from move-in day!

After that, we intend to use the blog to keep people near and far caught up with what we're doing. Check back for new pictures and posts!