Drastic Oversight - So this

Drastic Oversight - So this fall, it'll be ten years since I moved into my house.

And in all that time, I still haven't had a housewarming party. I may have to fix that.

Part of it was that it was just impossible; my then-wife and I had a newborn, a toddler and a teenager to deal with. Then two toddlers and a teenagerier teenager. Then two school-age kids and the teenageriest teen I've seen, and a divorce. And since then - oy, gevalt, so busy I've been.

But it occurs to me that I need to do this. It's time to start planning my party, for this October. And I may just make it the first blog-centric decade-late housewarming in history - an occasion to meet the Twin Cities' small but pretty darn high-quality band of bloggers, among many others.

Of course, it's all dependent on finding a job (and there've been some positive developments in the past week, although obviously one development short of where I'd like it to be) by then. And a girlfriend would be nice to have by that point, too, although I'm not going to set my sights too high...

It also occurs to me that I haven't thrown a genuine party since the last time I was on unemployment, back in 1987. In celebration of my last UI check on getting a job, I threw a bender that had it all; sick-to-puking drunkenness, food-poisoning-til-puking eating (someone made a hamburger from meat that'd been sitting out for eight hours on a hot July evening), at least one brawl, one breakup, one new and fabulous relationship (for someone else, of course) that lasted at least through the next weekend (and lots of other flirtation and dalliance...), and the worst hangover I've had in my life.

The next one will probably be a bit more restrained.

Anyway, finger-food for thought. Stay tuned - more to come in this space as events warrant.