Welcome

As always, I am a little late to the blogging party. It is my goal to keep a record of what is going on and my thoughts on various topics. I believe its important to keep a written record or journal on own's thoughts, not only for some self reflection, but for you children and grandchildren. Keeping it online, almost perserves it forever in cyberspace. As I watched a recent episode of The Simpsons my wife and I full expect that our children will be tweeting as part of their homework assignment. I can vividly remember starting my freshman year at Seton Hall University in the fall of 1995 and the issuance of laptops was limited to a select group of students, and the internet was new and chatrooms were on IRC not AOL. I envision this blog to be a little of everything as that is exactly what's in my head. I am the walking commercial for that drug that displays the remote constantly changing the channel.

As the title states, I am borned and raised in the northwest corner of New Jersey but recently moved to Houston, Texas due to work, economy and my wife (she moved here first and we successfully did a long distance relationship for over a year). She is also a born and raised Jersey Girl. We often find ourselves out of our element living in Houston. We love our diner's (Denny's is no replacement - nor is the 59 diner); our Jersey pizza (Brother's Pizza comes close, but still not as good quality), decent Chineese food, Jersey Bagels (how sad is the best is from McDonalds down here!) I could go on and on. Perhaps its the dirty water from the Hudson - who knows. As we get settled as a newly married couple in our new downtown loft, this should be interesting...