Yes we did! And did, and yet there's more to do.

Hey passers-by!

I have released myself from the guilt I once felt about my scattershot approach to personal blogging. The answer, my friends, is blowing in the incredibly variable winds of my spare time.

I update my twitter more frequently because something about character limitation releases me from creative block. It's like a coloring book to a blank page; limited and pre-fab can sometimes be less daunting.

Now that we got that out of the way, another technical note -- blogger ate my comments. So if you left one, and I never replied, and you haven't given up on me -- leave it again! This time, I'll actually get notification emails too. I'm being welcomed to the blog 2.0 world at long last.

What's happened since October of last year? Well, you may have noticed that President Obama has taken office. Whee! So I was working a bit on that. Jess was eventually returned to me from Kansas City, and after a moment of reuniting, was promptly redeployed to Northern Virginia for our efforts on the Employee Free Choice Act. This also keeps me busy from time to time.

Then Jess and I went to El Salvador to observe their presidential elections in March. And, si se pudo! Well, not Jess and I, exactly, but it was humbling and awesome to hear all the Salvadoran social movement leaders heap gushing praise on the work of CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) for being there, year after year, since 1980. What an amazing time. More on that later, if I get around to it.

Wedding plans march on. October seems just around the corner, but we have a location, I think we have food, we have a preemptive West Coast reception set for July, and a space for that. And hey, the way states are going these days, we have a veritable plethora of legal-marriage options. Ceder Rapids, here we come!

Much more has happened, but this is all you get for now. I must maintain my aura of mystique, ya know.