Andreas is going to be a starting a full-time permanent job as a Project Manager (!) at Speakeasy next week. For those who haven’t been keeping track, this means that while last year Dre and I were both free agents (each of us vacillating between unemployed, contracting, and freelancing), we’re now on the verge of becoming DiNK: Double Income, No Kids. It’s a weird place to be on the edge of, and we’re both sort of freaked out by it. But it’s worth it: we’ll spend a while saving up, paying off debts, getting ducks in a row, paying for the financial sins of our early 20s (Ariel trivia: I am still paying off debt I incurred while living in San Francisco in 1996). Then, once we’re ahead of the game a bit, we’ll assess our next radical plan. Current pipe dreams include property in France or opening a rural artists/musician/writer’s retreat. Or maybe both.