So while things have slowed down on the blog, my life has inversely gotten faster.  Life changes so fast and sometimes it seems there’s just no way to be ready for it.  Endless challenges and new responsibilities piling up before you can acknowledge them.  But really the changes in my life are pretty small, they just feel big.  This months featured change: we’re moving.  Today I go in to pick up the keys to our first house ever.  We’re just renting it, but still the fact that we’ll be moving into and being responsible for a whole house is a big step from being apartment livers.  We’re totally stoked and completely exhausted from getting our junk in order and fighting the roving sicknesses around us.  We have about a week of overlap in the new house and our old apartment so we’re in for a nice long and leisurely move in.  This afternoon will be the first good chance I’ll have had to take some pictures so I’ll try and remember to do that.  We’re very excited.

The title of this entry comes from the last line in one of my favorite books, The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein.  The book also features one of my all time favorite book covers, from which I drew much inspiration (or downright ripped off) for the design of this blog.   This book is so fun and innocent.  It isn’t crazy scifi or anything, it’s just awesome space fun.  It is about a family who decides to take an interstellar jaunt in a rocket and explore the universe.   Now, there’s nothing real ground breaking about the book but it’s fun and I just like it, but the ending really hit me last night (this is how nerdy I am).  The title The Rolling Stones is a reference to the family’s name, the Stone family, and to the phrase “a rolling stone gathers no moss.”  The family in the book kind of wakes up to this philosophy through the book, as they begin as a relatively normal family.  I mean, they’re all geniuses and engineers and the toddler is a telepathic chess wizard and they live on the moon but other then that they’re just a normal family.  The two entrepreneur boys in the family are able to convince the family to buy and build a rocket and seek adventure.  It was intended to be a simple and quick trip to Mars and back home, a family vacation if you will, but in the end they find an insatiable thirst for adventure and exploration.  I’ve always thought I’d like to live with a rolling stone mentality but the past few months have been rough and I see now I haven’t truly embraced the adventure of it.  Sometimes rolling is a bit more painful than you’d like.  The book ends with the decision of the family on whether to go home, or keep on truckin’.  In true Rolling Stones fashion they decide to roll on and explore space together.  This awoke something that’s gone into hiding in me a while, a desire for adventure and change.  Not only acceptance but passion for the challenges that lie ahead.  There are a lot of things I want to do in my life.  Things that are way bigger than what I’m dealing with now, which had been getting me a little down.  But its amazing how such big inspirations can come from such small things.  So now I’m going to go to work, and then I’m going to move into my new home.  After that we’ll see some changes around blog-land and some new projects and I’m anxious to share and from there it’s outward bound to the ends of the Universe…