A New Post!
Yes, really.
It's been an eventful few months since I last updated this thing. While I have registered aaronsheehan.com and hosted it on Hannah's domain, and uploaded Wordpress, I have yet to be able to create the look for it that I want. So - back to Blogger.
I am still in San Diego, still in the Navy, although it's looking highly probable I will be out by July and moving to Tennessee in order to cheaply attend school and cheaply buy a house. I have a wonderful girlfriend who lives close by, which isn't news to most of you, but maybe some.
We took a Thanksgiving trip up to San Francisco over the holiday - neither of us had been, and I was able to score some pretty cheap hotel rooms through Priceline.com - although what they don't tell you is that parking is $34 a day in the hotel garage, and there is no choice. SF is not a motorist's town, but it is outstanding in the public transit department. We rode buses, streetcars, and a light train/subway in addition to walking walking walking. It's a very urban place, probably about as urban as you can get on the West Coast. Chicago has more skyscrapers, and Baltimore has more murders, and Washington DC more gay Congressmen, but SF felt like the New York of the West, which was nice. We took a lot of pictures, most of them involving the terribly photogenic Golden Gate Bridge. I did get my turkey dinner at a little Irish bar called Fiddler's Green which was easily the most family friendly pub I've ever been in, with rugrats running around getting introduced to the world of the happy drunks, who humor children with the glow of the soused.
Unfortunately on the way back home, we were in a car accident on the 5 in LA, but nobody was hurt thankfully. As a result, my car is in the body shop and I'm driving a really crappy rental. Chevy Cobalt...don't buy one. Typical American engineering...but I'm stuck with it for 9 days while my car gets a new bumper, fenders, etc.
Other than that, Hannah and I have been leading a fairly uneventful life here in SD. The weather is finally cooler, and Christmas is in the air, the smell of unwashed shoppers mixing with the carbon monoxide of their cars. We still watch Battlestar Galactica and Dr Who - and I am still a Saints fan fairly happy with the way the season is going. I can smell a playoff appearance for the first time in several years, and it smells better than Christmas.
Should you have time, check out the redesigned and updated Little Man magazine - some good stuff on there. And also take time out to see Casino Royale, the best Bond movie in years - Daniel Craig is fantastic, and bringing Bond back where he needs to be: a killer, not some Inspector Gadget with better hair and laser diamond sonic wristwatch pen- guns.
I will try very hard to keep updating this on a more regular basis, and also posting writing here since I am in another writing class. Cheers -
It's been an eventful few months since I last updated this thing. While I have registered aaronsheehan.com and hosted it on Hannah's domain, and uploaded Wordpress, I have yet to be able to create the look for it that I want. So - back to Blogger.
I am still in San Diego, still in the Navy, although it's looking highly probable I will be out by July and moving to Tennessee in order to cheaply attend school and cheaply buy a house. I have a wonderful girlfriend who lives close by, which isn't news to most of you, but maybe some.
We took a Thanksgiving trip up to San Francisco over the holiday - neither of us had been, and I was able to score some pretty cheap hotel rooms through Priceline.com - although what they don't tell you is that parking is $34 a day in the hotel garage, and there is no choice. SF is not a motorist's town, but it is outstanding in the public transit department. We rode buses, streetcars, and a light train/subway in addition to walking walking walking. It's a very urban place, probably about as urban as you can get on the West Coast. Chicago has more skyscrapers, and Baltimore has more murders, and Washington DC more gay Congressmen, but SF felt like the New York of the West, which was nice. We took a lot of pictures, most of them involving the terribly photogenic Golden Gate Bridge. I did get my turkey dinner at a little Irish bar called Fiddler's Green which was easily the most family friendly pub I've ever been in, with rugrats running around getting introduced to the world of the happy drunks, who humor children with the glow of the soused.
Unfortunately on the way back home, we were in a car accident on the 5 in LA, but nobody was hurt thankfully. As a result, my car is in the body shop and I'm driving a really crappy rental. Chevy Cobalt...don't buy one. Typical American engineering...but I'm stuck with it for 9 days while my car gets a new bumper, fenders, etc.
Other than that, Hannah and I have been leading a fairly uneventful life here in SD. The weather is finally cooler, and Christmas is in the air, the smell of unwashed shoppers mixing with the carbon monoxide of their cars. We still watch Battlestar Galactica and Dr Who - and I am still a Saints fan fairly happy with the way the season is going. I can smell a playoff appearance for the first time in several years, and it smells better than Christmas.
Should you have time, check out the redesigned and updated Little Man magazine - some good stuff on there. And also take time out to see Casino Royale, the best Bond movie in years - Daniel Craig is fantastic, and bringing Bond back where he needs to be: a killer, not some Inspector Gadget with better hair and laser diamond sonic wristwatch pen- guns.
I will try very hard to keep updating this on a more regular basis, and also posting writing here since I am in another writing class. Cheers -
