Tote That Crate!

Mayhem Associates (Little Creek Station) Status Report:

Electrical Systems: Online
Cooling Apparatus: Active
Life Support (Liquids): Intake & Outflow Nominal
Video Display: Ready
Data Transfer: Functional
Voice Transmission: Offline, expected within 24 hours

I just need to make about two more trips, and Phase One of the move will be complete. Funny how the new place didn’t really seem like it was ‘ours’ until I could use the bathroom and run the AC 🙂

Cargo Transfer

Moved more boxes last night – woke up quite sore! I cannot wait until electric power is back on at the new place and I can turn on the air-conditioning! It’s 90-100 degrees in that house, even after sunset. Naturally, I’ll be finishing the move from my single room before I get power back – so all my toting must be done in the heat, and preferably before dark. On the other hand, at least any folk who help us on the big move from the Salem apartment will have air-conditioning to enjoy.

It’s been weird enough living in a rented room with 2-3 roommates I rarely see. For a couple weeks, I’ll be living completely alone in a 3-bedroom house. I expect I’ll be playing lots of music to add some life to the place. Actually, for the second of those two weeks I’ll have the kitty with me – that will help.

Tonight I hope to catch up with Tom. I need to burn a CD of MPEGs for him.

The House Of Borg

raininva left to head back home a few hours ago. She got to leave work early Friday, so managed to arrive here in time to see the new house in the light. Turns out I picked out a place she approves of, so that’s one less worry for me. Rain’s already posted pictures she took Friday, and we’re planing where to put stuff – at least we know we’ll have room for all our junk. I hope we can start having people over more often now that we have more room.

The weekend felt good, like we squeezed a lot of quality time into 48 hours or so – and this time, I’ll see her again in less than a week, so the missing her is a little more tolerable this time out. It was fun talking about all the plans we are making, and guessing about what’s to come in the future. The one sour note was the 45-minute wait for lunch at the new Red Robin down here – but the management was very apologetic, and comped our food. Our waitress was polite, but a bit spacy, and I’m not sure English was her primary language; apparently, the kitchen staff was completely out of it. Guess they still have bugs in the system to deal with.

I get to spend the week carrying stuff over to the house a few boxes at a time, trying to sort out what I can do without for a week. (The computer, for example, will be one of the last things moved *grin*.) If anyone would like the new address, e-mail me (that isn’t changing) and I’ll pass it along. Same with the phone # once I have one!

The toting begins

Just dropped off the first load of boxes in the new place.

On second look, I like it even more. There’s room for 3 or 4 gaming tables for a party, 1 fewer if we want a PlayStation/DVD group or a chat group. I’ve tentatively claimed the smallest bedroom for my office, and it’s twice the size – I can get back to modeling and miniatures. I’ve found the closest grocery store, a nearby Taco Bell for Rain, and a nearby lingerie store :p And I drove from work to the house in about 17 minutes, so the commute will actually be a little shorter than my current one.

The garage will only fit one car, but we might be using it for storage at first anyway. I’m not sure where the closest Wal-Mart is either, but I do know where to find a movie theater, a Barnes & Noble, and a Best Buy within about 20-25 minutes. All very important.

Happy me!

Mysterious furniture

The house in which I’ve been renting a room has three bedrooms – one occupied by the owner and the other two rented out. Shortly after I gave the owner notice, the renter of the third bedroom disappeared with all her stuff while the rest of us were at work. This morning, as I walked by, I saw a new bed in the otherwise empty room – I hope that means that they’ve found another renter. I felt bad that the owner was losing two monthly rent checks at the same time. He’s a nice guy who didn’t blink at the notion of my attaching a wireless router to his cable modem 🙂 I’ll be dropping off the first load of stuff at the new house tonight.

You are cordially invited

What:  Michael & Rain Moving
Where : (from Salem Wood Apartments) 100 Kimball Ave Apt G84 Salem, VA
When:  Saturday September 25th show up anytime after 9:00am
Who:  Any and all who would like to help 

Directions – From 81 take exit 140 and turn right at the stop sign at the bottom of the exit ramp.  Follow this road for about 1.5 miles.  You will go through a light at Main Street, continue forward.  You will go through another light, continue forward.  The first street you can turn at after the second light you will make a Left (there is no light or stop sign here).  It is Colorado Street.  Stay on this street for about a mile or so.  You will go through a stop light where the Salem Donut shop is on your right hand side.  Continue forward.  You will go up and over a small bridge.  When you see another stop light coming, there will be a stop sign to the right of the stop light.  You need to go forward to the stop sign and not the stop light (There is an Apple Mart on the corner).  This is still Colorado Street.  Go forward along the sharp turn in the road.  There will be a parking lot on your left hand side, right after that is Salem Wood Apartments, turn left into them.  We are the very first building on your right hand side, building G.

Things to know – our apartment is on the 3rd floor so stairs are involved.  It is 1.5 flights of stairs (one of those set ups a half flight down is the first floor, a half flight up is the second.)  We will have tons of drinks for everyone, ice tea, pop, whatever people want.  We will also be providing food.

If you could drop us a line if you think you could make it that would be great.

Thanx everyone!!

Lots and lots of blacktop

Feeling better this morning. Went to the pub last night with Tom and Donna and had a pretty good time.

Tom wants me to go up to the new National Air and Space Museum with him on October 10th. I like the idea – I’d hardly want to miss a chance to make a pilgrimage to the STS Enterprise – but October is loading up quick. The 22nd is a weekend trip to Salem for Rising Star, the weekend of the 29th includes a trip to Blacksburg for VTSFFC Halloween, and the weekend of 11/05 is another con I’ve always wanted to go to.

My poor car. The last months have been really hard on it.

All Virginia’s Parties

Quite a weekend! I burned myself out just a teeny bit, but I did have a lot of fun.

Friday morning, I decided I’d get right on the road after work, so I threw a weekend bag into the back seat. I even got to leave work a bit early to take care of an iMac repair at CompUSA. It was a good thing I did leave early, because there were 30-60 minute delays at every tunnel out of Norfolk, and if you’re heading north, you pretty much have to take a tunnel.

I’ll spare you the next in my ongoing series of traffic rants, because I still showed up at kittykatya‘s place just in time for lekythen and pulp_tarentino to return from an errand. Spent a couple hours catching up with J.J., whom I haven’t seen in 6 years. We’ve both grown up a bit, and I almost felt that we clicked better as reunited friends than we did when we were dating. So that was quite good.

Friday night and Saturday morning were spent catching up with Alex & Barb & Chris (look, alphabetical). Unfortunately, I had to head off before J.J. came back for her stuff, so I didn’t get a final goodbye. It was a good thing I left when I did, because the sky opened up as I left, and I lost another 90 minutes heading back down 95. Luckily, platypusgirl and krysturtle were willing to accept a soaked, bedraggled Borg into their home and I had a very good time at their party.

I met many people, some of whom I recognized from con meetings, but few of whom I can remember their names 🙂 The party was fun – lotsa people, good food, nervous kitties. We established that cat toys are far better for amusing small children than small-children toys are, and I have finally seen more than 50% of “The Goonies”.

Sunday, I napped a lot. I also tried to track down used copies of the “Riverworld” books – so far, no luck, but there are lots more places to look.

Phew.

“Your tail-light’s out, and, ah, you have no knees.”

Actually, it’s my headlight. I meant to get that taken care of last night, but I ran out of energy. I just don’t get much done in the evenings now – they’re so short. If I go out with friends, that takes care of the evening in one swoop, I go home and go to bed. And I really am having knee problems, I have been all week. Every time I go up a set of stairs is a bit painful, I don’t know what I did to myself but I’m ready for it to go away.

I miss getting home at 2 and 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Of course, I don’t miss staying at work until midnight, which is what gave me the early days the rest of the week, so I guess it all evens out.

It’s raining this morning, as it is over most of the mid-Atlantic states. I like it when it rains. Either a clear, sunny, warm, not too humid day, or a nice steady rain that means business but isn’t sheeting down in an effort to get people to build arks. None of this half-way gloom stuff.

Heading back to Salem tonight for the weekend. Thank goodness for audiobooks.

Oh lookie, a long line of cars

I have discovered something about this part of Virginia.

If you have to drive anywhere that involves passing through a tunnel, don’t be shocked if you’re late to your destination.

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