Singleecho

This is not to say that singleecho is offline indefinitely, its just to say that posts will be few and far between. I am on facebook as most of this website's audience is also there, and so i don't believe there will be much of a disruption of communication between us.

As an aside, I like this JAWS system for blogging and running a site, but Kevin and Matt have both found bugs in how the site runs. This hiatus will also let the product mature (maybe) before I really move into posting on it full time.

In the meantime I would like to focus my efforts on another two sites Menthatcook and Purduecrows.

Menthatcook is a site run by Matt and I that is for recipes and articles about men cooking manly things or failing miserably at doing it. Regardless it is a chronicle site and while Matt has held up his end of the bargain by posting lots of things I have not had the time to do my share even though I cook quite a bit (Filet Mignon and ribeyes last night with a nice rub, a Hefeweizen brewed earlier in the week, a Balvenie single malt...not cooking but awesome enough to share a review, and bowtie pasta with homemade tomato sauce, and thats just the last week) So I would like to start focusing what time I have on adding content to men that cook and we would of course love it if you would add some too.

Purduecrows is a site for alumni from AXP at Purdue University. I have tried to make this site relevant over the past few years but it struggles because socially our alumni brothers are cliquey and generally social midgets. Most of them live on facebook and seem to feel that a loose and fun website for crows only to discuss news is too narrow in scope. It has also been a struggle to get the brothers who are currently in house to post news, and maybe thats where I should focus my attention for the site. Regardless Singleecho loses ground while I experiment and tinker in an attempt to reach critical mass on either of these sites.

So there you go. Have a good summer. Cook something and post about it on men that cook.

Its an exciting time for us. I keep thinking about how when you are young you are in a family, then how when you go off to college you leave that family and all responsibility except for classes. If you want to stay out til 4 am or sleep in til noon no one will yell at you and you get to manage yourself.

When you leave school you get a job, and that usually puts you on a schedule. Then you get married and have to tell someone when you will be home and you can't just run around without a care anymore.

We are at that spot right now...the baby is safe and fed and watered where she is right now, we can go out shopping, we can go to a movie, there is no baby to take care of. When we sleep the house sleeps. In a few days all that will change...there will be three of us.

I am excited and looking forward to being Daddy, but I am also melancholy about the "newlyweds" part of our lives ending. I guess we now move into the "young family" phase, and its something I am really looking forward to. Its just so strange the finality of turning this page on life...even when we become empty nesters later on it won't be like it was these past few years.

A lot of different conflicting words describe the way I feel about entering the family phase, but I am more excited and anxious than anything else.