The final frontier
Posted 30 Jun, 2006 at 17:47 by matt in /Home | Permanent link
It's been a day of picking up keys: I'm moving offices (this weekend) and moving house (over the next few weeks), and I've been given access to both of my new spaces today.
I've therefore spent an inordinate portion of my waking hours today wandering around in empty rooms, sometimes clutching a tape-measure, and envisioning things. The actual process of moving will be kind of arduous, but right now the sense of possibility is making me happy.
Let there be no more doubt about where I stand on the Judging/Perceiving axis: P all the way, baby.
(I'll post a link to photos once I've uploaded them. I'm using the cheapest damn digital camera money can buy --- it's like the Polaroid 600 of digital cameras --- so don't expect much.)
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Moving
Posted 27 Jan, 2006 at 14:56 by lisa in /Home | Permanent link
We've put up some pictures of the new house!
We'll update it as we add more pictures.
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Purchased a Home
Posted 01 Dec, 2005 at 10:14 by brent in /Home | Permanent link
We have been going to a bunch of open houses here and found one we liked a couple of weeks ago and made an offer. Well, all of our conditions have been met, the inspection is done (a lot of work to do on it) and our adjusted offer accepted.
The place is a split level home with attached garage. It was built in '77 and needs some major and mostly minor work done on it. There will still be money left over from the downpayment to get it fixed up in the summer.
Closing date is January 27th which totally fubars any opportunity to join Dale and Al and others on a trip to Cuba.
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How do you wake up in the morning?
Posted 25 Oct, 2005 at 09:14 by wendy in /Home | Permanent link
This guy has a really interesting suggestion for using two alarm clocks to wake yourself up, the first one is very quiet and the second is just a backup. Personally I've never really needed the backup alarm, I usually find that a very quiet alarm is enough to wake me, and has the advantage of waking you up slowly if you're very deeply asleep. Sky manages to set his alarm for 30 minutes before he actually wants to get up, goes back to sleep, and then actually wakes up in 30 minutes. This does not work for me...if I go back to sleep after the alarm goes off, I'm asleep for hours. OTOH, he doesn't generally wake up to my really quiet alarm...How do you guys use alarm clocks?
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Good to be home
Posted 15 May, 2005 at 09:36 by wendy in /Home | Permanent link
South Beach was a very strange place to spend a week. It was my fourth time going to this particular conference (it's in a different place every year) and I'm finally starting to recognize people and get to enjoy bumping into folks I haven't seen in a year. So it was a pretty good time, but having moved only 4 days before leaving I was quite tired initially, and a week long conference is a pretty tiring experience even if you aren't sleep deprived when you get there.
Home is nice though. Spring flowers are just coming out, the air smells fresh, and I have about 6 different routes I can take walking to work which go through really pretty neighbourhoods with nice gardens. Now all I need to do is get the new place painted so we can finally take all our stuff out of boxes. It still pretty much looks like a bomb hit, and all my books are in boxes...and you can guess how frustrating I find that :) Luckily (or unluckily) we live across the street from Indigo...
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Ikea
Posted 05 May, 2005 at 09:10 by blue in /Home | Permanent link
Having had my own assortment of dealings, both good and bad, with Ikea over the years, I must admit that I found this letter to Ikea about the funniest thing I've read all week.
Hope you enjoy :)
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Mostly moved in
Posted 03 May, 2005 at 21:08 by wendy in /Home | Permanent link
Everything went pretty smoothly, only minor issues with Bell cutting off our phone service at the old apartment early (but not the internet...odd that), and getting the "This number has been changed to" message wrong. Move was fast and easy, which I guess is what I'd expect if I'm paying other people to lug my stuff around. Just wait till I'm rich and can afford to have them pack it all too!
The windows here face north & west, and since we're effectively on the 12th floor, we get really awesome sunsets. Strangely, when they numbered the floors in this building, they skipped 4, 13 & 14...I'm assuming for reasons of superstition. Most amusing.
Ashes seems happy...she's found a closet to hide in. What more does a cat need?
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Hey Blue,
Posted 25 Feb, 2005 at 08:10 by wendy in /Home | Permanent link
turns out we're going to be practically neighbours. I don't move until end of April...but I suspect that if I'm standing on my balcony I might just be able to see your place...
Yay, no more 2&1/2 hours of commuting every day!