on the return trip from montana, the wifey really liked rapid city, south dakota. while we had planned on waiting until after the school year ended to make _any_ moves, recent acts of violence in my neighborhood has made the wifey hate it here as much as i do. as we "shopped around" for places to go we ruled out from texas to new york, and for some reason rapid city kept coming up. well, the wifey has been hired by a cardiac surgical team that works the sturgis/deadwood/rapid city area and she is expected to start on the 10th of november. ive just leased a house in the south dakota badlands (_everybody_ takes paypal!), so it looks like the blackhills will be my home for awhile. i have friends and family in sidney montana that went and checked out the house for me so we expect to make the move some time around the 1st. of november if all goes well. with ellesworth afb right there it shouldnt be hard for me to find welding contracts and im already making the phone calls.
thanks to everyone who has given me local info over the past......well......year or so.