Maryland

The whirlwind has settled down. Jenny and I took a fast, busy, trip back to my home town of Cumberland for the weekend. Some highlights: a red-eye flight with a stop in Vegas (played $2 in the slots, lost $2 in the slots), riding a tractor and chasing cows, jumping in a cold canal to grab some worm/snake/parasite thing, a concert, Cracker Barrel, and the worst movie of all time (The Day the Earth Stood Still). It's always interesting going home and seeing how some things change and some things stay the same. The farm looks the same. Same barn almost falling over. Same house I grew up in. Same small town. Saw some friends from back in the day, but we've all grown up. It's fun remembering the good times, but life has separated a lot of us, and a lot has happened since then. But seeing them brought back the last few years of high school, youth group, and those last few moments before adult hood. It was good to come back to California. It was good to ride up the PCH past Neptune's Net and see the moonlight on the Pacific. It felt good to step back into our apartment, to lie in our bed. It's interesting how life and people change, it feels like you stay the same and everything else revolves and changes, but that's how it is for everyone. To each individual, they are stationary and everything else moves.