Our last week on Hobhouse Circle

Today marks the beginning of our very last week here at 8321 Hobhouse Circle. We close on our new home on Friday and the moving trucks crank up Saturday morning. While I’m excited about the possibilities our new home will bring, I am also going to miss this house. Its been so good to us.

Kelly and I have discussed this before, how we couldn’t wait to leave our Garner home and didn’t ever regret that move. It was nothing against Garner but more particular to our house, or more specifically our neighborhood, I suppose. We had no sidewalks and no front porch there. We didn’t have the chance to meet our neighbors the way we do here. Even though our new neighborhood has no sidewalks, our home has a porch and our home sits right next to an active pathway into the next neighborhood.
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Skyscraper music

Its another very windy March day here in downtown Raleigh. When the wind blows through the framework of the still-being-constructed RBC building it makes an eerie whistling sound.

Every time I hear it I expect Godzilla to appear above the neighboring building or something.

East CAC meeting

I went to my first meeting of the Raleigh East CAC last night. I’ve wanted to see what was on the minds of our future neighbors so this seemed the perfect opportunity. Since the meetings are held at Lions Park which is a stone’s throw of our new house, I won’t have much excuse for missing them.
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First meeting of Raleigh Neighborhood College

I went to my first meeting of the Raleigh Neighborhood College last Thursday. I would’ve blogged about it that night but it turned out I was out later than I expected.

The classes are held at Peace College, incredibly convenient to my job. I arrived a little after five, walked into the dining hall, got introduced to Charlene Willard (one of Raleigh’s Community Specialists) and enjoyed a fine dinner while getting to know my fellow classmates. Twenty-five citizens from all over the city share the class. They’re a very energetic, friendly bunch, too, from what I’ve gathered.
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Two showing day

Here it is, a Tuesday, and we actually had two showings today! One was 10 AM and the other was in the afternoon. We’ll find out by tomorrow how they went, but I’m blown away that we were probably someone’s first house seen today. Anyway, this is all just a whole lot of hassle until a contract appears.
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An inside-out view of a stroke

Ten years ago, neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke in her brain’s left hemisphere. As someone who studies the brain, she found herself in a unique position to experience and describe what she’d only studied before. Her story is fascinating, compelling, and deeply moving.

Take 18 minutes today to listen to her talk about her stroke at last month’s TED conference [self-playing Flash video]. You’ll be glad you did.

(hat tip, O’Donnellweb)

(I note Dr. Taylor sells her book on Lulu.)