Chillin' With The Burns

My one month lease in my deluxe apartment in the sky has expired. My buddy from Gates, Jerry Burn, and his wife have graciously offered to let me stay with them for 10 days until I fly to SLC to meet up with my family and drive to Oregon. 

Jerry lives about seven miles from Wieden + Kennedy. So I run to work in the morning along Cornell, and then take the train back to their house after work. As I type I am doing so in their home, at their dining room table, all alone.

They are currently at Hood to Coast, a nearly 200 mile relay race. Mrs. Burn is walking two legs of the relay race. An incredible feat given the fact she is about 70 years old. They will return on Sunday.

They are so generous. They gave me my very own room:

Such great people. Jerry picked me up from WK after work on Wednesday and took me to Panda Express, where we met up with his wife and son. Mrs. Burn then went to work at a hospital, where she is a delivery nurse. Later that night Jerry and I went to get some frozen yogurt. While we were at the yogurt shop his friend Randall arrived. Randall is on the left:

Turns out Randall is LDS, and he offered to take me to church with him on Sunday.

I am very comfortable at the Burn residence, so I hope that means this next will fly by!

Iron and Wine's cover of Such Great Heights is playing on Pandora. It gives me such a cool feeling. So much going on in my life with a new job, new environment, away from the family. So many emotions running through me, and this is just a perfect song to be listening to right now.