Devouring or Devoured?

I thought it was time to rename the blog.  Keeping Up with Chris, Steph, and Walt Van Bebber has done the job admirably since we started this last January when simple and literal seemed appropriate.  Getting overly  precious about what we called it just didn't feel right at the time.  But recently it's just seemed a bit too bland and descriptive - like a folder we have in the file cabinet labeled "Taxes 2006" or "Moscow Receipts."
I found out not too long ago that one of my oldest friends called me the "Devouring Mind" in high school I think mostly because I was curious about and interested in everything and I just had a burning desire to know and discover things.

Round 11

I've just finished my eleventh round of chemotherapy and, unsurprisingly, it has begun to take its toll.  I guess when you reach the 11th round of anything (a heavyweight prizefight, your turn to buy a round for the eleventh time), it is time to think about packing it in and going home for a rest.  I'm almost there.  When I swallow these seven capsules of poison for five days every month, I think - just attack the cancer.

Hooray for a home!!

We've been reluctant to write since we left Canberra.  It has been a different transition.  And although we should be used to moving this has been a harder move than we've had in the last few years.  We've been staying with family and friends, we've traveled and we unfortunately even had a few days in the hospital (Chris coming down with pneumonia in Canada). But mostly, we've been superstitious, not wanting to share our news until it was for real.  After talking about buying a home in San Francisco since we first lived here we finally did it.