I’m logging out for a little while. Always good to get some time away from the screens. I did this last year and it was fantastic. This year will have slightly different parameters, but will be mostly the same. No recreational Internet. No movies. No TV. No Twitter. Basically, no turning my brain off in front of a screen. At all.

It’s harder than you think. BUT SERIOUSLY, DO IT.

This year promises to be way more fun for me than last year though, for two reasons. First, I am way more active in the outdoors than I was last year. Last year I was hoping to get some good “walking” in. This year, I’m rock-climbing, scrambling, and trail-running basically barefoot through the woods at least twice a week. Second, we are buying a new (quite old, but new to us) house. It is an amazing hundred-year-old “Stickley Craftsman” (read that article if you don’t know what that means—I didn’t either), designed by Stickley himself, built from one of the original Craftsman Magazine plans (#57 to be exact) in 1910, and oozing with character. It is even in a coffee table book! It looks different—much better—now, but check it out here on Google Books.

We are, as folks who have experienced some very difficult failures and restarts so far in life, absolutely ecstatic. Can’t wait to share pictures. This house will fit us (not just in size, but in spirit) more than any place we’ve ever lived. It really is rather amazing and we feel sincerely lucky to get to live there. That reminds me!—MaryAnn and I are also celebrating our 10 year anniversary next week. Wow. Time flies when you’re hanging out with the coolest chick you’ve ever known.

So I won’t be bored.

Enjoy the season! Get outside! Love your people! Enjoy your time! See you in a month or two. I’m sure that when I return, the Internet will be bustling with news and photos and songs and ideas and “likes” and “follows” and will be humming with all the spectacular complexity that it currently is. For now, I’m going to take more time in the woods, more time with some books, more time tinkering around the new house. I’ll see if I can’t come back with something worth stopping by for …if not… don’t worry, you really won’t miss me. Much. ;)

Happy Autumn!