Been a While...

Wow, it's been a while... quite a while. We need to take a fast forward 9 months from the last blog, and then we'd end up here --->

We're doing great! Next week... we'll have some news for all to celebrate in... but until then...

What's been going on with us you ask? Well, I'm (gil) working out in Rancho Cordova (just east of Sacramento, up 50 - for those who know the area) at a small architecture firm called PWC Architects (Perkins, Williams & Cotterill). It's been an interesting experience... a combination of remembering things I learned in High School (drafting and CAD classes) along with putting to use the design education of college, all the while learning new things about codes, products, how things are really built. Interesting, eh? I think so. Now if only I could magically shorten the commute by about 30 minutes, that'd be GREAT!

Ian on the other hand has somewhere between a 20 minute commute (walking to campus) to no commute (meaning he is at home working). Lucky guy! He's currently working on papers to submit to various conferences (one as far as Rutgers in NJ) and his dissertation proposal. Soon, he'll start his "timely" (as stated by the professor he's been working most closely with) dissertation topic... then he'll only have something like two years left. I find it slightly ironic and a bit amusing that once you start (which is a big accomplishment in itself), PhD students still have years to before they actually are "finished".

Oh, I forgot to mention, I'm also taking a class for graduate credit "Perspectives on World Missions".

(Note: this entry was started way back in March... but I guess I never posted it. Of course I only realized this AFTER my current update on 9-22-06. OOPS!! It's a good think that blogspot is smarter than I and remembers when this post was started and places it "correctly" in the timeline.)