The good news is: we got a good price on the house, relatively speaking. The bad news is: it had more than $20,000 worth of dry rot and termite damage repair. And the house was a little small for the 5 of us.
So we spent our first few months doing major house repairs and home improvement projects. Luckily, the weather cooperated nicely.
In parallel, I started putting on paper and developing various ideas about a visual tool to help people think, based on my use of creativity tools, systems modeling, object oriented programming, and a 3D computer environment I had been involved with at Intel:
The Miramar workspace environment
