Welcome. Welcome to a little experiment on the internet. Welcome to the biggest adventure of my and my wife’s lives. A little bit of background, since most of this is public record anyway: I’m Matthew Denker. My wife is Laura Beth Lincoln. She’s from Rochester, and I fell in love with it while I attended RIT and then UofR. On January 6th, 2010, we closed on the 100’x41′ piece of land known legally as 37 Eagle Street. Ever since we’ve been slowly but surely working towards building ourselves a house there. I intend for this blog to chronicle that process. Over the next few weeks, most of the posts will be catch-up for the past 5 years (we actually put the offer in on the property on 9/29/09). After that, I’ll update the blog with day-to-day progress. We expect to have selected an architect by then, so stay tuned. Over the course of the project, I will also be writing long-form columns at key milestones over on www.rochestersubway.com. I’ll be sure to link to those pieces here when they are written. In the meantime, sit back and enjoy the ride.