With a heavy heart...
 

On August 15, 1999, I packed up a 14-foot U-haul truck and left St. Louis for Baltimore. It was an attempt to start a new life...my "grown-up" life after graduating from college.

After a dismal year in Washington, DC, Rhoda and I moved to Philadelphia on September 29, 2000 to seek a better home. I have grown particularly fond of this beloved city.

Unfortunately, 2 years later, and $12,000 poorer, my East Coast life will end at the end of January. Due to unusual and sad circumstances, I will be leaving Philadelphia and moving back to St. Louis.

I am by no means looking forward to going home...the only place I hate more than St. Louis is Washington, DC. But from a practical perspective, it is the rational, and right thing to do.

I will terribly miss Philadelphia and the ocean; however, I will remain on the Cellar and post faithfully. Hell, maybe I can finally meet dynamo (since he lives there).

Or maybe not...
 

Maybe God heard me or something...maybe he knew that I had no desire to move back home to St. Louis. Maybe he knew that I wanted to stay with Rho.

I'm staying put in Philadelphia. :)

Yay!
 

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Hello Kitty is very happy!

I get the feeling you web brower history would be a very, very scary place Hubris Boy....

I'm telling you, he's spent way too much time at Baltimore Harbor...probably over by the Domino plant. Shit, it makes me worry about my in-laws in Woodlawn.

(Incidentally Hubris, I'll be in Baltimore Thanksgiving week. Perhaps we can meet for a pint or two?)

I've heard about DDT in the water but....
Now every time i see another hello kitty piece of merchandise (every 2.5 seconds on average in the city) i think of cellar...

why were you going to leave?

hey, since you're gonna be in baltimore... i'll be in taylorsville, near eldersburg/mount airy/westminster... i don't drink alcohol, but we could meet up for some chocolate milk or root beer or something :)

When everything started going down, Rho and I thought it best for both of us to go back to our respective homes, due to (what we thought was) mounting expenses. Things fortunately started falling into place, so we're staying put. :)

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hey, since you're gonna be in baltimore... i'll be in taylorsville, near eldersburg/mount airy/westminster... i don't drink alcohol, but we could meet up for some chocolate milk or root beer or something :)

Not sure how much extra time we'll have, but I'll shoot you my cell # via e-mail.

'tis never best to leave the woman. Well, not if you want to be with her, anyway. But it's cool that it worked out.

Finances are always a hard thing. I'm just glad that mine are good, and I have enough money that I can buy a new computer every few months and it's all good. Jenni doesn't make nearly as much as I do, though, and she gets worried because she's going to school as well and her car was seeming to have something wrong with it every paycheck (though it seems alright now). I just told her to chill out, that we'd make it through.

I guess that's the best way to look at everything. It's what I do. Just remember: this day too shall pass. Things have a tendency to work themselves out, and it'll be okay.

Yeah, things are panning out alright...now if I could just find a new job. Sorry I didn't send my cell #...completely forgot. D'oh!