I promised myself that I would not let my career as a Realtor® consume me as much as my life in high technology at Apple did. There I was often away from home for days, and a workday could easily be sixteen hours since I was managing people on both coasts.
Since finding buyers is so difficult these days even for established agents, I have been working really hard to get up and running. Between the mailings, the online activities of maintaining my site and the thought that I might have to do some technology consulting again just to get through my first year as a Realtor®, I have been super busy.
I have even been working with a client which has meant some late night research for them. Yesterday I took the day off to work in our yard, and help some neighbors clean the pool furniture in our subdivision.
Cleaning the pool furniture was not very tough duty. With three of us, we were done in thirty minutes. Then we just sat and around and talked. Some wives joined us. As the time under umbrella by the pool stretched into a couple of hours, I was reminded that you are often at your best when you don't work seven days a week and sixteen hours a day.
Our weather in coastal North Carolina along the southern Outer Banks has been spectacular during May. We were all talking about how nice it is to just sleep with the windows open and no air conditioning. After I got up from the poolside meeting, I put my kayak in the water for the first time this year and was surprised to find the water in the White Oak River to be warmer than the water in the pool.
After the kayaking we went over to the beach and I stood in the water to take the picture in the post. The water was wonderful, but perhaps a little cooler than the river. As you can see from the pictures, there were no crowds. We headed down the beach for dinner at one of our favorite seafood restaurants, the Crab Shack. Unfortunately I had to settle for snow crab legs instead of blue crabs since we our schedule was defined by having to be home so my wife could watch American Idol. We have determined it takes me nearly two hours to eat a bowl of six or sever steamed blue crabs.
Last night I was pleased to hear another diner finishing his crabs comment that it had also taken him two hours. Two hours of eating crabs doesn't qualify as a quick business lunch.
We did catch a great sunset as we were coming across the bridge. It was nice to have a day to smell the flowers. I even noticed that my tomato plants were blooming. In spending the day enjoying where we have chosen to live and work, I can now actually remember how it feels to live here instead of just talking about how great it is.
So far I have been pretty good at living at the beach and not ignoring the beach. I want to keep it that way, otherwise I might as well be living in Northern Virginia and working in high tech again.
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