Ryan’s Place

hey folks,

yes, i know, eons since i’ve posted. i’ll try and do better. i have motivation and opportunity now, i have a snappy new macbook that i’m thoroughly enjoying and so the excuse for not posting of having a balky computer is no longer there. you can look forward to more frequent postings from here on…

on to other news, i am now in a new place! (my address is now 2527 N Sheffield, #3D, Chicago, IL 60614. Google earth map it and you’ll see it’s kinda right in the middle of everything.) I love my new place. it’s definitely the nicest place I’ve lived in; a newish condo (built after 2000, i think) with 2 bedrooms (i finagled the master bedroom), two baths, in-unit laundry, and (gasp) an indoor heated parking space. In with the deal i got a very cool roommate, with whom I’ve lived before and know I can coexist with. All this for the same price as the rather vintage one-bed i lived in before. and it’s a nicer neighborhood. (Mom, Dad, I doubt you’d have any pistol-wielding antics afoot here if you come to visit. to the rest of you, it’s a long story). I am really, really happy with the new place and already feel at home there. Yesterday, as I was cleaning out my old place, i was trying to re-install some screens and was having a terrible time fighting trying to get the 100-year-old, wooden, counterweighted windows to un-stick enough that i could put the screens back in, and i realized, man, i’m really not going to msis this at all. “vintage charm” fades quickly when your windows don’t work and you can’t keep the dirt out of the place. =) all in all, though, i’m thankful for the year there and everything that living along taught me. the new place is also a testament to the Lord’s faithfulness; Chris (the new roommate) and I had been looking at places for a few days and were getting pretty frustrated; good apartments were hard to come by and nothing was really panning out. We decided to pray about it and the next day, found out that a guy from my small group at church had this place available that he owned and wanted to rent out. The rent was scarcely higher than some dives we’d looked at, and the place is beautiful - with a great landlord, to boot. Just goes to show that the Lord does listen when we pray.

however, after the full weekend of packing, moving, unpacking, sorting, painting, pitching, cleaning, etc., i’m really, really sore and am glad for a day at work where the heaviest thing I have to lift is the phone.

well… that’s it for now - back to my strenuous deskish duties.