daines'n around

San Clemente Pier. Ten minutes walk from my new office

It has been nearly 4 weeks since I slept in a bed. That will all change soon. I'm signing a year lease on an apartment in Orange County this evening. I'll learn to call one more place home for now.

This continues a tradition. Not since a small town home in Allentown, Penn., have I lived in one home for more than 2 years. It's interesting how, in Utah, this was deemed as something strange.

"What do you mean you don't have a home?"

I have a home, but I learn to be at home quickly. Sometimes vacations are long enough for me to feel at home, like my recent trek to the U.K.

But, Southern California -- it feels like home here.




Update:
I'm a finalist in the Utah Society of Professional Journalists competition. Results are coming at the end of the month.

At the end of this week I will have completed four weeks as a reporter. It's a much different lifestyle than I've become accustomed to over the past two years in Utah. It's much more involved. It's much more hands on. Like so much of life, it still involves a lot of waiting.

How about a tour? Sure.

It's official. ID badge to prove it.

My desk, in San Clemente

San Clemente, where my office is, is a ten-minute walk from a gorgeous beach.

Complete with surfers,

waders, bathers and

beautiful clean water.

Our apartment complex is full of kids. It makes me happy to see them playing.

The path to our apartment.

We only have neighbors on 4 of 5 sides. The other side?

The Wasteland. Inhabited by snakes, rabbits and coyotesI

My bedroom, still feels incomplete. I'll have shelves when I get some money.

Meet the roommates. Clockwise from the bottom: Oreo, Ashes and Lilly

One big happy family.

Well, I didn't just win one 2008 Utah Society of Professional Journalists award for front page design. I won two. First, and second place in division B.

The official comment on the first place design was: "Great package on Cheney’s commencement speech—all elements placed in clean, logical fashion—simple yet very effective presentations."

The award-winners are listed here on my web site. Click on the image to see my page design section and see larger versions if you feel so inclined.

Dates: April 27, 2007, and April 12, 2007.