Uncharted Waters

Morning, team. Happy Thursday. We spent the morning shoveling the driveway. It's still covered with slick ice.


Just kidding. Hee hee. (Notice the color of the house?) That pic is from JAN29, 2009, but it does sort of feel like winter is here. It's 54 degrees in the house today, and 36 outside. We went for a nice long run though, so we're pretty warm.

The front page of the ProJo has a story about downcity development and vacancy rates: Did Downtown Providence's boom go bust?

The newspaper could have done some actual research and put together a worthwhile three- or five-part series talking about the past, recent history and current status of the downtown area, but the ProJo is terrible, so they got a couple quotes and ran the story.

And an “economic bomb” is coming to the city if Bank of America chooses to move elsewhere. “Every property owner is scared,” said former Mayor Paolino. “We’re in uncharted waters, right now.”

Seems like with winter settling in, we're buckling down to plow through some projects. Sue'll continue working on reformulating her F-32 application (a government grant) for a DEC1 deadline, and she's also, among other projects, dutifully studying two hours each morning for the E-triple-P - her professional licensing exam (I have no clue what it stands for) - which she hopes to take in December.

Work for me is pretty manageable. We got some decent proposals out in the fall, and now we're in planning mode for the rest of the year - trying to figure out how to hit goal in a depressed economic environment. I'm excited to spend some days and nights hunched over the new desks in the basement.