Month: December 2006

Five days off… I’m not sure what to do with all the time.

Wednesday was a half day due to weather, work was closed Thursday due to the same weather related issues, Friday I worked a bit from the house as the car was buried, then there is Saturday and Sunday, and Monday is a holiday…

I simply cannot imagine what it would be like to be unemployed – I’d go berserk in very short order… I mean, I’m remotely connected to the servers at work right now *looking* for something to do.

I would like to vacuum the house as the last few days of rock salt and water – even though I tell people to take off their shoes at the entry, which never happens – have managed to make the carpet in the living room “extra textured”… But Zeze is still asleep from a late night with the Jalen and Flyn (as was I, unfortunately) and I don’t want to wake anyone up.

Zeze, yesterday afternoon, was able to get the car out, go bowling with Jalen and Flyn, and return with groceries, so the roads must be better now.

Yep, still snowing.

Work is closed for the day, and there is no way I can get the car out of the parking lot even if they were open, so here I am enjoying a cup of Earl Grey and watching the snow fall.

I’m not sure of the actual depth of the snow, but it’s up the the door handle on the garage now…

At this rate I don’t expect to be going to work tomorrow either.

Here’s another update… it’s still snowing. Now there is a bus stuck in front of the entry to the complex.

Winter is here again! 🙂

It started snowing at about 4am this morning and is still going strong. I estimate about two feet of the fluffy white stuff right now… And it’s still snowing.

Most of Colorado is under a Blizzard Warning till tomorrow afternoon.

Work let out at 10am today and, having just attempted to get to the grocery store on completely unplowed roads, I don’t forsee going to work tomorrow.

So, I guess it’s a few days stuck in the new house. That’s ok, I need to unpack anyways. 🙂

Have a good night out there and stay warm!

All done.

I still have to go and clean up the old house tomorrow, but for the most part – I’m moved. It took four trips today…

I guess I still have too much crap.

I also have the internet feed set back up, so Zeze and I won’t suffer from any withdrawal symptoms this weekend.

Went and saw “Eragon” this morning between loads of boxes – was a pretty good movie actually, though I liked the book better.

Jalen and Flyn are helping Zeze move right now and I expect their last loads here soon. Jalen is using his truck and Zeze is loading the other PT Cruiser, so between them they’ve made four loads.

Zeze has too much crap as well.

Well, I guess I’m going to go unpack a bit, make my bed, take a long hot shower, and probably take a nap.

Till next post…

The first post from the new house… Using ‘borrowed’ wireless. 😉

More later.

I should be finishing the move this weekend. The cable/internet connection was installed yesterday and the power will be transferred on the 20th.

I can tell I’m close to done because I have my Whisky collection moved, and that’s usually moved towards the end for safety.

Really all that is left is my desk, bed, a few random things like speakers, and the kitchen… Though Zeze will move most of the kitchen I think.

Let’s see… Oh, I bought myself an xmess present – I finally got tired of messing about, dipped into my savings, and bought myself a real desktop replacement laptop. It’s the top-of-the-line HP dv9000 – a 2.4 Ghz core 2 duo machine with an 256M Nvidia 7600 video card, 17.4 inch screen, etc, etc.

The nicest thing about it is that it has a real keyboard, including the 10-key pad.

I’ll be upgrading the HD in it, from 80G to 100G and adding 1.5G of ram to it, but otherwise it’s a perfect gaming laptop.

So now I can park my carcass anywhere I want and work on internetty stuff, writing, low-level art, etc. Plus, it runs my games quite well.

So, with that, I should get back to moving.

Have a nice day everyone.

Well I’ve officially started moving across town.

I hate moving… It’s a massive waste of effort translocating crap you don’t need from one containment facility to another.

So I tend to be what I call a “slash and burn” mover, which means that if it’s not essential to my current life, it’s disposed of.

This morning was mostly taking all of the boxes of accumulated crap I’ve built up over the last few years and running a purge-process on them: Nothing that I have not used in the last year made it into the car… There is a bit of sentimental stuff I tend to hang on to from move to move – all of my pen/ink originals, manuscripts, sheet music, and other proof that I really can be creative – but for the most part I was able to dispose of it all.

Ultimately I was able to move about 70% of my stuff today in a single trip – which is down from 100% in a single trip.

-I must be getting soft.

In addition I have furniture to move this time which is unheard of. I usually dispose of the cheap-o furniture I accumulate between moves and replace it at the new residence.

This time I went and bought nice enough stuff that I don’t want to replace it.

-Yeah, I’m getting soft.

The new place is very nice – though I don’t like how the paint came out…

I have the master bedroom because it’s furthest from the living room where Zeze will have a full entertainment system (60-something inch TV, AV gear, speakers, etc.)… I’m very much the ‘asleep for the movie, awake for the dawn’ type, and Zeze isn’t, so I need the distance for my sanity.

There are also Zeze’s friends who are over most weekends and who were born without ‘inside voices’… Currently my room is below the living room, and when I go to turn in at around 10pm I wind up staring at the ceiling for a few additional hours till they leave. See, they like to run a continual commentary on whatever is on the TV, and without inside voices this happens at about 102dB.

So that’s a double headache for me as ‘loud’ bugs me and I cannot stand it when people talk through the show, movie, whatever… Really, I’m happy that you were able to second-guess the plot of a TV show which was designed to be transparent to a ten year old, but keep it to yourself till after the show.

They’re nice folk; I just wish they came with a volume knob.

So, yeah, I’m at the far end of the townhouse.

The other small issue with the townhouse is parking… Like all apartment/townhouse complexes, parking is a premium as buildings generate money, not parking lots. So we have a one car garage right outside the door to the house and another parking spot located roughly 2 light-years from the house – which is about 14 light-years closer than the guest parking.

But that’s ok. My car, which will be getting a lot of work done on it this summer will probably live in the garage and ZeZe’s car will live under a really nice car cover.

The new place is about 3-4 blocks north of Iliff on Sable, across the street from a school.

For now though I need to go and do mundane things like laundry. Take care out there.