In my big reorganization of my post categories, I ran across this old entry with pictures of the apartment. For giggles, I took pictures of the apartment as it is right now but from the same positions as before. Behold, the before/after shots. Before is on the left. After is...
Time for more pictures! Yay! Here's the apartment, now that I'm mostly settled. It's not clean, but it's functional. Ph00t! The glowing yellow thing at the left of the first picture is my network blinkie. And here are some kitties. Wooooo! Oh damn that's cool....
I've relocated to my new apartment. Because of this, my computer is sitting in a pile in the corner. Oddly, it's in the corner of the old apartment, not the new one. I'm planning on moving it tomorrow. However, this all means that I'm back to writing in my journal...
The movers arrived today. Hurrah! It was sortof cool, actually. They pulled up in a covered truck, and apparantely all of my stuff was actually stored inside two bigass wooden crates. They popped the sides off the crates while still on the trucks, and unloaded them from there. Here you...
Boy, a whole bunch of little posts today. I've realized that I need to replace all the day-to-day crap that I had before when I lived with Ken and Mac, but which I didn't bring with me. And although I haven't moved out of my furnished housing yet, I am...
I mentioned earlier that I found a new apartment. I'm pretty sure I covered most of the details in that post. Just to recap, it's a second-floor 1-bedroom place of 644 ft2 with a washer/dryer, dishwasher, and fireplace. I've got a bunch of pictures to show you. The thing about...
I remember that the Wikipedia entry for Redmond notes that it used to be known as the town where one can't buy underpants. Redmond has traditionally had so little retail development that up until the fairly recent construction of the Redmond Town Center, it really was true. Redmond's neighbor to...
I admit, I'm an idiot. But now, the State of Washington has declared that I'm enough of an idiot to pilot a jalopy down their beautiful asphalt. I passed the written test. All it took was a ~10-minute browse through the Driver's Guide to pick up on all the numbers...
I'm not sure if I've mentioned the Housing Assistance yet. It's been Activated. No, really. The email I got was, "Housing Assistance Activated." With emails like that, you really can't go wrong. It sounds like a bad line from Knight Rider or something. Anyway, the Housing Search was pretty damned...
I have a really difficult time with things like driver's license tests. I tested for my New Mexico Defensive Driver Certificate1 sometime in September or so of last year so I could legally captain state vehicles to their assuredly undeserved destructions. The test was something like 50 or 100 questions...
Remember my post about changing time zones? Yeah. I forgot to update Movable Type. Motherfucker. So now I've got a bunch of posts with incorrect stamps. Thankfully, MT doesn't retroactively apply timestamp changes, so all my old old posts are done correctly—it's only the ones posted since I've been out...
This usually happens any time I switch timezones. I'll remember to change the time on my watch, but I'll totally forget to do so on my camera and whatever else I'm using. Thankfully, I just now got it fixed on my camera and computers. But all the shots taken up...
The "Early Out Delivery" stickers that came with my moving packet are, I have found, most humorous applied to my zone. Nevertheless, my early packages arrived today. Now, the moving company actually gave me more stickers than I had packages (and I could have asked for more), so theoretically, I...
Won't you get down, on your shanananananakneesnanaknees shut up. Well, here's my housing. It's small but well-equipped, like a midget in porno. Aleph hasn't really eaten anything yet (good) and it looks like the blinds are all metal (also good). However, there's no obvious place to hide the toilet paper...
We're passing over the suburbs south of Seattle right now and it still hasn't hit me yet, really. The land ~100 miles east of the city is surprisingly brown and looks almost like New Mexico. Odd, that. And now that we're passing over the clouds and haze, there's a rainbow...
My first-class ticket cozy has an advertisement for ameniti.com, a luxury travel service. My coach ticket snuggie from yesterday features a rather garish red-and-white spread for hotels.com. Indeed....
During a haircut I got on Friday, the barber mentioned that I have an oddly-shaped cranium. Well, that explains a lot....
I'm in Denver and I'm still not excited. Admittedly, I did get a bit nervous when I could actually see Denver upon approach, but I suspect it will be around the time that I actually spot Seattle that the adrenaline will start flowing....
Back on my plane kick, I'd like to relate how I nearly shit myself flying on the CRJ-70. Here it is. Sweet little plane, actually. It seats four across (three in first class—I got the single) and what seemed like 12 or 15 rows. My flight involved the quietest takeoff...
I just spotted a Boeing 777. These planes are big. Unbelievably big. So big that if you really know how big a 777 was, your brain would try to suffocate itself. Sorry. I saw the HGTTG movie recently. Back to the topic at hand. Anyway, the B777. The interesting thing...
There are a bunch of houses off the east end of primary at KABQ. We overflew it at around 500 ft., and this is a comparatively quick plane. It must suck when heavies fly through....
I just want to say that it looks really funny when Flight Attendant A (who is giving the safety lecture) gets ahead of Flight Attendant B (who is pantomiming "The Passenger in Peril") enough that Attendant A has to wait and Attendant B has to don the oxygen mask in...
I'm sitting in an airplane waiting to be pushed back from the gate. This is the furthest I've gotten so far on my quest to Seattle—further, in fact, than I got yesterday. So, I see this is a positive thing. I was a bit surprised when I found the plane...
Those of you who know both my AIM screenname and the license plate that I used to have on the Scirocco will likely find this humorous. Much thanks to Ashley for actually pointing it out to me, because I'm a blind bastard most of the time. Boomshakalaka....
Wow. What a day. I'm still in Albuquerque. During my trip to drop Ashley off at the airport, I had an opportunity to chat with the United desk agents. "Is my cat carrier OK?" "Why certainly. As long as you have supporting health documentation and a small water bowl, this...
Yesterday afternoon, Ashley and I went to the Coronado mall to take care of a few things. Beyond the usual mall things that I do (mope, look disinterested, etc.), I spotted this. Phoon!...
Remember my discussion about cleaning and packing the house? Let's step back to Thursday and discuss the school side o that day. [insert wayback machine noise here] Over the last six years I've been in school, I've learned something very important about administrative staff: keep them happy, because they can...
I'm currently sitting at Albuquerque International. One of my pairs of glasses is smashed*. And, oddly I'm still not excited at all—all in good time, I'll explain some history first. * Glasses were smashed due to a woman cursing the TSA crew about the fact that she had to remove...
I'm in a bit of a rush at the moment—I'm at my folks' place posting and I haven't had a chance to shower or to get my stuff repacked for the flight, which I need to leave the house for in less than two hours. I'll fill in the details...
After the movers bolted, Will came over for the washer and dryer. This washer/dryer pair have a funny history. I originally found an ad for these posted in the mail room and the university. I ended up buying them and moving them into my then-new house on El Camino Real,...
There are two hilarious things about the movers:They're a company called S&M Moving Systems and I now have a bunch of boxes labeled "S&M," and the movers arrived in a giant blinged-out pickup truck. I'm not kidding. Photos are forthcoming, once I can offload the camera. Update: camera offloaded. Phototime!...
I'm moved. Finally. Looking back, I remember choose my move date somewhat arbitrarily. It literally came down to the fact my moving coördinator asked for a move date over the phone and caught me off guard, so I pulled one out of my ass becuase largely, it didn't matter. Thinking...
I've realized that there are some very noninsignificant hurdles impeding my illustrated and timely contribution to this journal. Specifically, I've already shot ~50 pictures today and will likely not have an opportunity to unload the camera until Saturday at the earliest. And even given the opportunity to unload, I don't...
So, officially welcome to /tmp. My fileserver (earl) is in the process of shutting down at this moment, meaning that /dev/null is completely unavailable. Do remember that I won't have fantastic internet access in Seattle before I start working, so I'm going to journal my entries by hand and then...
I've inserted this post back a week so it's obvious you all know where the new stuff begins. For those of you wanting to catch up on what's happened since /dev/null has been down, start here. Everything above this is post-/dev/null-shutdown!...
Well, folks, it's getting near that time when I'll be shutting down /dev/null for a while. I expect downtime will be approximately 1-2 months. Thankfully, Mouser is hosting a temporary journal for me at /tmp, and I'll keep updating that. So here's a quick overview of what has happened and...
Now, /dev/null runs on Movable Type 3.15, which is nearly π-tastic, among other things. /tmp, on the other hand, runs on MT 2.661, which is at least 15% less MT needed to bring you the clean refreshing taste of my ranting. So there you go. Choosy programmers agree, I should...
