I think I reached the limits of what I described optimistically just a few weeks ago as my blended life. Lately, it is more of a blender. Quick update:

WestwoodBlog, the site I set up to get more involved in my town, really took off over the past two weeks as we had a town election and then town meeting. Lessons learned from all that will make a post of their own, but suffice it to say that facilitating a site like that is more involved than just turning it loose and hoping people will show up. We have now had over 1200 people access the site in the past month, with nearly 300 visits yesterday. At our town meeting, by a very close vote, we approved granting a liquor license to the Westwood Station development to encourage the Wegmans supermarket chain to locate here. I even managed to twitter about the meeting live.

My company, Spire, launched our new web product today after months of redesign and development. After thinking hard about our strategy, we finally moved away from the closed community model and are launching the site as an open membership site with the goal of growing membership by the order of 100K in the next year. My role is to keep the technology running and today that involved all of us going in at 6am to do the final deployment and make sure everything worked.

On the home front, Baby Marshall has hit his stride as a crying 2-month old who needs to be held a lot. Jason is now just a little over 2 and is testing his limits and our patience daily with his tantrums. My wife has her hands full each day as we hit "mile 20" in this process. I'd blog more about parenting, but that subject is covered ad nauseum in the blogosphere. We all have to find our own path and it is hard for everyone, in many different ways.

I signed up for and ran a 10K with about 2 weeks of preparation. Good news is that it got me back in condition and I was able to run a respectable 49:17. And I've been able to ride (and track, using my new Garmin GPS watch) my bike to work and home a few days.

I received two more architecture/planning books in the mail yesterday as well...now I just have to find time to read them and write about them like I did for Suburban Transformations. And of course I'm reading Richard Florida's "Who's Your City" now...and I've got to get through Bobos in Paradise so I can criticize it here too...

Finally, we are starting to move forward with the town Community Access Television Station. I'll have a lot more to say on that as it develops this summer.

So stay tuned. A few years ago I didn't know what to do with myself. Now, I should probably figure out what not to do!