Well, Tami and I are moved in, but the unpacking process has been longer and more stress-inducing than we originally anticipated. That and we're still fighting with Disaster One for the money they owe us for being 2.5 months over on a 2-week project. I'm leaving that to the landlord and his insurance agent, but it still bothers us.
Mel Schumaker has 2 more chemo treatments before they go in for another PET
Tami and I went to two of Greensboro College's socials this past weekend. One was at the lovely home of Paul Leslie(apologies if the name is misspelled), where we were introduced to other new faculty members. The other was an equally lovely dinner for the entire GC faculty at the OB ranch in Pleasant Garden. More on that experience in a later blog.
We helped a friend of a friend move in next-door this weekend. Turns out her previous landlord was someone I knew who turned out to be a lot more crackers than I thought they were. I really feel for my new neighbor and her situation.
My project officially lifted one wing off the ground today and scraped the other on the tarmac. Good stress... Happy stress...
Did I mention we still haven't finished unpacking?
Classes started last week. My professor, while nice in person, will smack the taste out of your mouth if you wrong her in class. I witnessed it first hand at the last 15 minutes of the first class. A student comes in early for his next class and she stops the whole class to stare him down and ask him 3 times to wait outside. Had she removed his head and dribbled it down the aisle for a lay-up, I wouldn't have blinked. Jinkies. As opposed to last semester, where I was inundated with study guides, SI classes,etc, it is just a review of our reading assignments and maybe an in-class question once in a while. I don't know if the term "teaching-style decompression sickness" exists, but it's the first term that comes to mind.
It took me 1.5 hours to move my car from one deck to the other.
I need to go home and visit my folks. My mom had her eye surgery a month ago.
There's only one cable outlet in the new apartment(in the living room). Tami's happy with her machine being out here, but I have to put mine in the guest room(for space purposes). I have the means to connect to the internet via wireless, but I'm not using that for my day-to-day usage. I'm debating on the best possible method for running cat 5e about 50 feet or more to create a hard-line for my system.
Ugh...
I'll preface this entry with the announcement that Tami and I are officially moving in together. We're both very happy at the prospect and have been looking forward to it for some time.
That being said, we've been waiting since the beginning of June for our apt. to come available. Normally, if the apartment was not going to be available on time we'd give the obligatory "gosh darn" and keep on looking. This apartment, however, is right on UNCG's campus and a stone's throw away from Greensboro College. It's an ideal location for us, so we thought a little wait could be justified.
Now, it's the second week of August and they've been at it full-time going on their third week. Their original estimate was two weeks... back in June... I don't want to go into the headache it's been.
To be brief, my friends have really come together to help us out with storage. Guy and Mikey have let us use their extra room at the apartment to store climate-controlled stuff. Sue has let us use her outside storage. Tami's parents have helped us with two moves so far. Ben (the landlord) has rekeyed the storage room to our apartment so we can store stuff in it and got the construction company to put up the hens for us to store a large portion of our stuff in storage. Cam and Steve have been very gracious by allowing us to stay at their place and use their basement for storage as well. It's good to have friends and it's really good to have friends like mine, I must say. Thanks, guys!
Mike, today, made his little contribution. He's been giving me the good natured ribbing about "being homeless" (in good taste), about how Tami's going to leave me for the La Quinta Inn or a Mexican family of 12 in a one bedroom apartment. She'll sleep under their 'festive' blankets. All that's just talk and while amusing, didn't do much for me.
What really split my sides was what occurred after work today. I was waiting outside for Tami to pick me up to take me to the mechanic(brake replacement). Mike comes by in his Chevy, talking on the phone with the window rolled down. He slows down and stops besides me. Reaching into his ashtray, Mike pulls out about $0.23 and tosses them at my feet and then drives off without breaking his phone conversation.
I couldn't stop laughing for 3 minutes. Thanks, Mike, you've made my day.
The blogosphere is continuing to grow, with a weblog created every second, according to blog trackers Technorati.In its latest State of the Blogosphere report, it said the number of blogs it was tracking now stood at more than 14.2m blogs, up from 7.8m in March.
It suggests, on average, the number of blogs is doubling every five months.
ThePiedmontChannel.comA Greensboro movie theater was damaged by fire early Tuesday after a popcorn machine was left on after the business closed, according to investigators. The fire happened at Carousel Cinema Theaters on Battleground Avenue. About $6,000 in damage was done to the building.
Firefighters had the fire under control in about 15 minutes. There were no injuries reported.
Major Suck. Tami and I were just there last night.