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The main reason I haven’t written a blog entry in the last two months: I can’t get my MacBook to recognize my external USB HDD, which is where my iphoto library is stored.  Still haven’t corrected the issue, but decided to make another library on the main drive until I can figure out an alternative.  So now I’ve uploaded some new pictures of recent trips to Dallas, Martha’s Vineyard, Seattle and our recent vacation in Sedona.
 
Sedona is now officially my “happy place.”  Just love it there.  Thinking of renting a house there next year to celebrate my birthday.  Anyone interested in joining us out there?  Amazing place.  (Check out the pictures.)  Based on some requests I got last night, may even turn this into another Survivor weekend.  
 
Actually, real estate prices have cratered out there and they have so many foreclosures that Anne and I were looking at houses with the idea of possibly getting a 2nd home there.  (See, you can do these things when your first house is a hovel in a crime infested neighborhood in a city with a horrendous climate.)  Anyone interested in co-ownership of a 2nd home?  :)  
 
Other big news - my sister just got back to the States.  She just transferred from the U.K. and will start work out of her company’s Boston office tomorrow.  
 
As for me, the back is roughly the same.  My 24/7 pain level has not improved, but my stamina has definitely increased.  While in Sedona, I jogged for the first time in six months and don’t seem to be any worse, so perhaps things are heading in the right direction....
 
 
 
The path leading to Bell Rock in Sedona, AZ.  Anne and I spent the first week of September vacationing in Sedona for the third time.  Love it there.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
September Update