Mid-October Update

So the last couple weeks have been busy. I had a last minute trip to NY to speak to Marvel about a few things related to Marvel vs. Capcom 3. I took the opportunity to get a little time with my parents. It had been almost two years since I’d been in Goshen (though, not much has changed).

I helped my parents put together some Ikea furniture as they redid my old bedroom again. It’s much less cluttered, much better looking. The room was recently repainted and it looks significantly better than it did when I lived there.  Dad’s laptop died while I was there so I did a complete recovery, format and rebuild on his machine which took me about half the one night I stayed there. I tightened the security on their wireless network (it was completely open, now it’s WPA2 protected).

We managed to get a breakfast and a dinner in with Aunt Ellen, both of them in Warwick. The Chateau Hawthorn dinner in particular was excellent. Good wine (Silver Oak) and I had the schnitzel.

Mom and Dad's backyard in the fall

Dinner here was great.

The day before my trip to NY, we attended one of Kaiya’s friends birthday parties (Sydney) where Kaiya got to see a lot of her old King’s Kids buddies who now go to different schools around the area. So that was nice. Unfortunately, on that same day, I got word that my Uncle Gene had passed.  While not unexpected, it’s always saddening, especially for his immediate family who vigilantly stayed at his side since going into hospice care.

In the mean time, work continues on our investment property in Newark… it’s almost ready to go now. Pretty much new carpeting, some dying of stucco and a new garage door opener are about it. We wanted to be done by November 1, and I’m pretty sure we will be. Some pics below:

Bathroom before	Bathroom after
kitchen before	kitchen after
janky glass doors in living room	New windows and doors