Beginnings...

Most of you are aware, I suppose, that there's lots of new things in my life.

I got married to Danielle on May 20th in the Boston Temple. It was awesome.

Tons of our family and friends made the long trip to celebrate with us, and the day was just perfect. Well, 98% of the day...
(Long story, perhaps for another time.)

We've lived on her employer's 3rd floor for a couple of months now, and we just got an apartment for September in Dorchester, a small, South Boston neighborhood. It's a modest little place, but we're doing some work on it and it should make a cozy little home for the next year or so that Danielle and I are in Boston... our first home.

The recording studio, which I built with Ryan Pedersen in 2008, and which has been my sole occupation for the last 12 months is in transition of ownership to an independent producer named Andrew Campbell. He's buying out Ryan in September and me over the course of the next year, during which I'll help him manage the studio.

That puts me back in the full time job market though, and I've been trying to dig up sound-editing/mixing, a/v, film, or teaching opportunities in the area. I'm experiencing the first really barren job market I've ever faced. I am both highly skilled and experienced, but there just aren't any jobs I am finding here. So, for the first time in 8 or 9 years, I'm looking for jobs outside of the professional media environment. These don't come easy either, as my experience is pretty specialized in that area. It's new territory.

All things considered, I feel great. We've been seeing real blessings and feel very well looked after despite our abject poverty. I just need this last piece to fall in place.

Lastly, I've been considering what to do with this blog. I'm leaning in the direction of a fresh start here too, perhaps on the tumblr front. It's a little better featured for what I think I want to do. I'll be sure to drop the new url on you guys when I get it going so you can keep me in your RSS feeds.

Thanks for reading everybody. And if any of you folks are praying people, I'd appreciate you sending up one for me in the old job search...

Mooney,
"Don't mind me, three feet from the ceiling."