Going to Israel and Bought a House

It's not often I alow myself to go off topic on this blog, but when I do it now it is about two milestone events happening in my life right now.

First of my wife and I are going to Haifa in Israel on a Bahá'í pilgrimage. This is a huge thing for us. Haifa, and nearby Akka is where the founder of the Bahá'í faith is burried, as well as his son and his forerunner. If you've not heard about the Bahá'í faith before and you're curious (I would be) I advice you go to www.bahai.org to find out more (you can also find more information about the Bahá'í World Centre in Haifa there).

The second milestone is that we bought a new house yesterday. After living in a 58m² house for the last 4 years (even smaller appartment before that) we finally found our self able to aford a "real" house.

The plus sides are that it is relatively central in our town, it has huge space around it (lots of space for kids to play, arrange barbeque parties etc.), it has two garages (only one can be used for car, but the other is perfect for bicycles, lawnmover, snow showels etc.). And there's a kind of "side basement" which I plan to make into a band rehersal room, and get together some of the guys from "old times" when we were rocking on the local scene). Also there's a basement (dry!) with lots of storage space.

The downside (and why we could aford the place at all) is that the inside rooms are old. However we took a extra loan to build a new bathroom before moving in, and we've done (and enjoyed) putting new floors, painting walls and such before. So we don't really see it as a down side at all. And while the inside is old, the building structure etc. seems to be in very good shape.

So needless to say we are extremly excited and happy these days (and busy). We saw the house just day before yesterday, so we had really short time before the trip to Israel. But it just felt so right the moment we saw it, so even if the price got up a bit because of a hefty price fight (several others saw the same plus sides and potential as we did), we deceided to go for it.

These two events are so huge and exciting for me that I might come back to them even if this is primarly a ColdFusion / Web Development blog (it's still my blog, so I can write what I want right? Besides I like to read a little personal info from the blogs I read, kind of to get to know the people behind the names).

However I promise to come back to continue the Object Oriented Blog Process, and tell about my experiences with Model Glue on the www.adobeusergroup.no site. I also plan to change this blog over to the Reactor/MG blog by Doug Hughes.

So long!