Apartment Living

It’s almost eight years since we’ve been living at this apartment complex and it hasn’t always been easy. The first couple of years I had to put in plenty of overtime hours at work just to catch up on the bills that had accumulated. It helped a lot finacially but really hurt my health and marriage.

Now that we both make pretty good money, it seems that we’re still in a rut.

I’ve seen plenty of other couples leave here to move into homes. With the way the wife handles her finances, it’s unlikely we’ll be providing a “traditional” home for our kids any time soon.

Self-Promotion

Over the weekend the wife and I popped in an old dvd of Tommy Lee Jones’s “Volcano”. Since she’s a Chicagoan, I had to explain the hilarity of the scene in which an Angelyne billboard gets roasted by spewing lava. She laughed when I told her that the bimbo was a shameless self-promoter.

Anyway, it made me think of how far we’ve come in the area of self-promotion. Now instead of billboards, one can use the internet to advertise one’s services. Crew 12’s website is one that gets pretty creative at accomplishing this. (Click on “Extras” for some interesting behind-the-scenes bits.)