Another Permanent Address

Every few years, I post something called "Another Permanent Address." It's  a reference to a song by Chroma Key, a weird little solo project from one of the founding members of Dream Theater. Goes like this:



I bloody love that song. It has a specific kind of place whenever we're looking at moving. This time, we're looking at moving to an actual permanent address--somewhere we'll stay for an indefinite period.

A SHORT HISTORY OF MY ADDRESSES, CA 1989- PRESENT.

~1989 - 2001 - Lived with my parents in Castle Boring, on a State Highway in Ravenna, Ohio.

2001 - 2003 - Thayer Ave, Akron--lived with my best friends in the apartment over the owners of a Christian gift shop.

2003 - Back with the parents for about 8 months.

2004-2005 - Back to the Thayer house, but in the apartment my ex-girlfriend shared with her high-school friend. I lived there alone until I met Carly, we got a dog, and eventually moved in together on...

2005 - 2007 - East Glenwood house. We got this thing thinking we'd be there forever. It didn't work out. After law school, Carly got a job in her hometown in Mount Vernon. So we moved to...

2007 - 2008 - Sugar Street. I was unemployed, but somehow we bought a historic house for $80,000 or so. I loved the house, hated the town. Couldn't wait to get out. So I looked far afield and dragged Carly to...

2008 - 2010 - Lincoln Park, Newark NJ. The apartment we lived in was in a renovated former bordello and probably crack house. It was great, for a time. There was Jodi, the weird hoarding yoga instructor. There were the car break ins, and Clement Price... but ultimately the neighborhood failed to improve so we took off for the bright lights.

2010 - 2013 - Paulus Hook, Jersey City, NJ.  This was one of my favorite places to live. Yeah, the rent was steep and it wasn't the most up-to-date apartment, but it was good enough for us and it was close to all the things we loved.

2013-2014 - That apartment complex in Wheaton, MD. This would have been great if we weren't overlooking the busiest road in the greater DMV, flooded four or five times despite being on the third floor, and generally kind of hating it.

2014-PRESENT - That townhouse in Wheaton, MD. This place has been a pretty good home, but we knew when we moved in that it would only be for a limited time. It would have been better if we found it when we first moved to DC, but at that time it was occupied by people who didn't care much about the cockroaches in the walls and under the carpet and everything.

NEXT, we think we found a place. More to that later.