I think first and foremost, congratulations are in order for my little brother Brett Ricks, who just last Saturday got married to the lovely Tory Pitts. He is the seventh of us to be married, though Julia and I may still be the last to have kids; since we're waiting until she graduates. I don't know much about Tory but given the pictures it is obvious they are very much in love. Alas, the ring ceremony is a bit too soon after my bout of unemployment to be able to attend in Salt Lake this coming Friday, but I will certainly be there in spirit.
We have slowly been putting our apartment together. We've put up a new shower curtain (power drills are harder to use than it looks!), wall hangings, my old bed, and a lot of bookshelves. We still have to set up the TV and speakers and get a new couch but we're going to Ikea this coming Saturday. Julia is an excellent cook and we're enjoying dinner together. So far our activities consist of lots of netflix and internet and reading together. We don't know a lot of folks here, but we're slowly changing that. We've been watching Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Being Human, Metropolis, and lots of Family Guy.
Julia during the day works on school and getting her Search Engine Optimization business started. She's been listening to Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and helping me with Forever West. Right now, I plan to submit it to Baen with her first corrections and hope for the best, and continue during the year making editing improvements to self publish it myself. I've been working and writing and releasing a few stories at a time to Amazon. I'll be making physical copies of the books as soon as I've finished reediting my first round of stories for an anthology.
Otherwise, life is good. There is strong reason to believe I'll be going perm soon. We're looking forward to visiting Atlanta this coming weekend, and then Julia's uncle in South Florida for her spring break.
