Personal

It is getting down to the wire. I packed almost everything last night. All that is left is my bedding, some clothes, and a few loose ends. I have 2 extra box’s for that crap. I am also going to pack an overnight bag with stuff just in case I cannot find my clothing Friday.

The game plan is to goto my sisters tonight when my mom is baby-sitting morgan. Get her truck, and empty it of all the baby crap. Then drive it home and park it for the night. Thursday while the movers are packing up their truck, I will pack up the jeep with the things they can’t move or I don’t want them to move. Then when the movers are done with my apartment, my dad and I will drive the jeep to the new apartment and hopefully unpack it before the movers get there.

I was going to leave work early today and finish up anything I forgot to do, but I cannot get the jeep until later since I don’t know when my sisters nanny will be around. I have to wait for my mom to get to her place since I don’t have a key. I also may get to see Ms. Morgan then also. if I went during the day I might not see her.

The move happens in 3 days. I am starting to freak a bit. Everything needs to go off perfectly or I will have problems. My doubts about if the movers can move everything from one apartment to another between 8AM and 4PM is really starting to worry me. getting from my old place to my new apartment after the movers finish at my old place but before the cable guys show up at 2PM is also in question.

I have most, but no all my stuff packed. I still have the computers, some clothing, some kitchen ware, and stereo to pack. not sure if I have enough box’s. Of course I was never sure. I may go buy more today.

I went to Ikea with Jayson and Gretchen yesterday. I didn’t see anything that would get me to throw out my current living room wall unit, so I am stuck with it for this move. It will be the single biggest problem to move. I just hope that it doesn’t slow down the movers too much to cause an issue I haven’t been to Ikea in ages. Some of the stuff was nice, the rest was obviously cheap.

Another reason I haven’t been to that store in a while is traffic. We sat in construction traffic going out there, and accident traffic coming back. Another reason why I am moving into manhattan.

I went to Amy’s surprise 30th birthday party yesterday. It was nice, but I don’t speak to many of the people I saw outside of holidays. Because of that it is always awkward. Family events like that are weird. They aren’t really family, but my family is so close and we have known each other so long we are closer than my real family. So it had the look and feel of a family event. Baby Rily was very cute. Unfortunately baby Morgan was unavailable. She had another birthday party to goto. I hopefully get to see her when I get my sisters jeep on Wednesday night. I will do dinner with them if I am done packing by then. I just hope that I am done packing by then.

It is funny, I was all worried that I would have extra tickets to the van that takes me to the train. It turns out I will be 1 day short on them. that works out perfectly for me. I just bought 2 round trip tickets for today and tomorrow for the rail road. I will play Wednesday by ear and decide then if I want full fare or off peak. It turns out that a weekly LIRR ticket is cost effective if you goto manhattan 3 or more times in a week. For me it was a toss up since I was not sure if I would be coming home from work on Wednesday regular time or early. It was better to pay a few extra bucks and not be locket into a ticket in the long run.

I have been so lazy the past 3 days. I wrote a bunch of blog entries and I have not updated any of them to the site. I will do that when I get home tonight, I hope.

Another website note, my site is currently down. The blog and mob are up, but my regular site is down. I unplugged it when I took down my wireless point / router. I will bring it back up when I move. It is not worth redoing that now when I am moving in a few days anyway. I may end up moving my site off to my friend Miguel’s server he hosts.

No major news to report in my move preparation. Jayson, Gretchen, and I are trying to goto Ikea sunday. I want to look for a new wall unit so I don’t have to bring my old one with me when I move. Jay and Gretchen want new couches. Hopefully we get out there. The problem is Ikea is out on long island so they would have to take the train to me and then we would have to drive. The problem is (major reason I am moving) that no subway goes near my place now. You have to take the rail road. And that is expensive and a pain in the ass due to the schedule. Only 6 more days to worry about that!!!

Just as the subject says. Seven days until my move. My apartment is full of box’s, bubble wrap, and tape. I have spent a decent amount on box’s. I have tons of them at work but I don’t want to travel to the office to get box’s so I went to staples and bought even more box’s yesterday.

I have allot of the packing done. I need to pack up my computers, TV gear and clothing and then I am mainly done. I have a few misc items that still need packing, but I got allot done this week.

I cannot wait to get this move over with. More news as it develops.

I have a week and 2 days to go until I move. Of course I am an adult and don’t need to count down to this sort of thing. It is really a week and a day if I don’t count today!!!

I didn’t get my monthly rail road ticket since I am moving. I just bought a weekly. They are more expensive per ride than a monthly. Thankfully I am only getting a weekly this week and maybe a few daily’s next week. I already have my stand-alone unlimited ride metro card for the month.

Things in my old place are in limbo. I have needed to buy groceries for almost a month but I don’t want to buy anything for my new place. I have been ordering out so I can eat. My freezer is almost empty. My fridge is almost empty. I will run out of some critical items a bit early, so I may need to do a mini shopping.

I did what I like to normally do on a holiday weekend. I did nothing special. It is melodramatic to some extent I guess. I just don’t like doing huge crazy plans that involve lots of travel on the holidays. Maybe it is because in 1999 & 2000 I was on a plane or somewhere other than home on every major holiday.

Saturday I did some sleeping. I was still out of whack from my Thursday to friday overnight. After I got that out of my system I went to the city to help Jayson and Gretchen move into their new place. Man I haven’t done manual labour like that in a while. I wont understand why I help all my friends move, but I pay for movers!!! I just dont want to deal I guess. The commute to the city wasn’t so bad. I drove to my sisters place and parked, then took the subway to the city. Jayson’s dad drove me back to my car later when we were done. I slept well that night.

Sunday I did some errands. I went to the mall, best buy, and staples. I got a new mouse to replace my logitech wireless optical that had the rubber surfaces coming off of it. I got a Microsoft wireless optical this time. it was cheap. I also got packing tape and some box’s for my move.

Rich and Amanda came over and I cooked up the last of my Fresh Direct steaks and some sword fish. We then hung out on my terrace and watched the fireworks. You could see everything all the way to manhattan. We were even able to see the display going off by the seaport. it was really nice.

Today I packed, and did some work. I had allot of issues that pilled up since I was in kingston thursday and friday. Now it is off to work tomorrow.

I have booked my movers. I have reserved the date to move in both buildings (old and new). now all I have to do is pack. I haven’t done anything yet. I will try and start this weekend. Moving is expensive. It will be costly to pay people to do it for me, but I think I am passed the moving your self phase.

I have my cable install date already. I have my phone in my old place ready to be canceled. the only thing I haven’t done is cancel my cable at my current place. Then it is address move request forms.

I cannot wait to do this. I think this move will be good. I am looking forward to my new place. I hope I really do appreciate the shorter commute now.

This weekend I will help Jayson move into his new place. he is currently in Georgia en route to NYC. He should be here by Saturday morning.

I am currently en route to kingston. Kai and I are doing a network upgrade tonight. I tried to sleep in, but couldn’t. I was up by 9AM today. I caught a much earlier train than I was planning.

Looks like Kai couldn’t sleep either. he called and is on his way to the office now also. he will beat me in.

I just hope I am not tired later tonight when we start the work. I am not feeling 100% right now, but I am not hurting in a bad way either. My problem is when I goto kingston I tend to get migraines. Not sure if it is the travel or what but most of the trips I end up needing migraine medication. I hope today is the exception to that rule.

Not sure what was going on, but there was a fire trick and crew at my rail road station this morning. It was weird. Like 6 guys walking on the other platform and then they were huddled near something. Not sure what. Their was no obvious fire. Nothing suspicious. as my train left the station it looked like they were looking up the embankment or tree near the station. Maybe something got caught in the tree. It was interesting enough to keep the morning exciting!

This is what I get for taking the early train.

UPDATE: As I got to penn station I heard an announcement that all trains on my line were delayed now because of fire department activity. Must have been something going on after all.