Value of a view

Jerry and I have been in our new home for about a year now. It's been a long year. First, we had the move and attendant disruptions. Then 3-4 months of planning for renovation. Then 4-5 months of renovation and displacement. Then a new baby.

I'm bushed.

The point of all this renovation, by the by, was to improve our view. We removed the chimney and put in huge glass doors, giving us a long long view. Now, a year after the process started, it is starting to feel really *worth it*. Now, the construction is done. I wake up in the morning to silence and come out to the living room, stare at the view, and work. It is a joy.

I don't know how long I'll need to enjoy this view to make up for the months of inactivity. Probably for a decade or more. But I can now see it paying for itself over time, not in money, but in daily blissful contemplation.

I'm happy.

Obsession with Twitter

Where have I been, you might ask? What happened to casabuena? Basically, it moved to Twitter!

I find that Twitter is a lot more fun and less onerous than Blogspot. What I say here at Casa Buena stays here just about permanently. What I say on Twitter is fleeting, so it can be sexier, looser, more fun. Look me up on twitter at http://twitter.com/buenavilalta!

Just today I got a new Twitter client for my new Mac Book Pro called Twit Menulet. This program is the bomb...tweets show up in the menu bar rather than in a separate window. That means I can write this blog post or (better yet!) "participate" in a conference call while watching the tweet stream flow by. Twit Menulet is the best program I've found yet for allowing me to follow twitter *unobtrusively*.

As for the new MacBook Pro, let's just say that a pregnant woman has a lot of leverage over her husband!