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Like clockwork at 9pm people started setting off fireworks. I found a use for my patio after all. I went out there and watched the fireworks. I could swear I saw stuff going off halfway to manhattan from my apartment. it was cool. The night was a bit hazy so I couldn’t get a complete view of the city skyline but the view was spectacular anyway.

I think I got most of the major setup work on the apartment done. The furniture I have is in its final resting places. Now all I need to do is get the new furniture.

I still need to figure out how to setup a wireless network card on a linux machine.

I will clean up this weekend, and finish getting the little things from my old apartment. Then I can clean the old place up a bit so I don’t have a problem with the security deposit. Then I am done with the old place.

So far the AC in the new place has worked well. I will see how it gets when it gets really hot again.

Today I officially took over my new apartment. My sister came over in the morning to help me move my wall unit. It worked out ok. The unit is perfect where it is now. I just don’t know if we can move it again. Every time I move it I fell it will fall apart and not go back together. Thank fully morgan slept through all the hammering. Man babies can sleep!

I waited all afternoon for the cable guy. It sucked, but I had company. My sister went to work out and I got to play with morgan. Watching a baby is weird. The smallest things make them happy, and the smallest problem will set them off crying. She was great until she got hungry. I had a good time. Wait, waiting for the cable guy sucked, but spending time with Morgan was good.

Finally after 4pm I had the Time Warner guy show up. At least I got a shift supervisor who knew what was going on. He was really cool, and I got a good insight to the Time Warner network operations. AKA what I can get away with and what I cannot. I figured most of it out before, but I got some good pointers from this guy. Once he was done everything worked great.

I had some problems with my wireless LAN. My mac kept dropping the network. I upgraded my Linksys router to the final 802.11g specs. it came with a new firmware update that I just ran. Now things seem ok. I am sitting in my comfy pier one chair sitting in my bed room. I am able to surf the web, and write this blog with the access point on the other side of the apartment. So far so good.

I went to dinner with my parents tonight. I was home when they went, so I went along. Recently I have not been getting home from work early enough for me to join them. I want to make time to do it at least once a week, but it hasn’t been shaping up that I am able to do that. We shall see how things go after kingston is launched.

I also did some food shopping. I needed to stock my new fridge. I got some stuff, but I want to wait to place a big order with freshdirect to get the rest of the stuff I need.

If you haven’t guessed already since my cable was down, this blog and my website was also down since friday night. It is back online and hopefully will stay that way.

Well the day off to move is about over. I am getting ready for bed. I am tired. I am back to work tomorrow.

My apartment is laid out in such a way that I will be relying on wireless network for almost all of my computing needs. it is much slower than the 100-megabit wired solution have been using for the past 4 years. I have had wireless for my laptop for almost 3 years, but that was for 1 machine, and I would plug it into the wired network when I wanted to transfer large files. I may run a ca…

Well I got stopped in mid sentence when my mom, sister, and the baby dropped by. What I was going to say is mute now anyway. My mom and sister beat me up until I changed the layout of where I will put everything. It is going to be a big pain in the ass to move stuff. The wall unit that I had in my bedroom is going next to my desk on the opposite side of the room from where I thought the bigger wall unit will go. Instead of worrying about wiring, the cable guy will have to deal with that. I will still leave the router in the wall unit, and just run a single cad5 cable to a switch at my desk. The servers will still go wireless since they are in a closet. I hope I get reception in my bedroom now with the WiFi. I should. I will test it this week.

I am taking 2 of the 3 pieces of my parents couch, and 3 of the 5 pieces of their living room wall unit. That is what will fit into my apartment nicely. We think the 3rd piece of the couch may fit. I am going to take it and see. Worse comes to worse I will get rid of it. The extra wall unit pieces will not fit so I am not even taking it.

The dining room table will fit but it will be a bit tight in space for it. After arguing with my mom and sister, I took measurements of all the furniture and the apartment and did a visio of the whole place. I now have a better understanding of what I am putting where. A Visio may be overkill but I wanted to know how everything would look to scale in the space I had, so I did one. I do them all the time so it wasn’t a big deal. That is what I get for doing the entire office all 10,000 square feet of it off of a CAD drawing. You get used to doing them.

My sister is coming over Tuesday. She will help me move the 1 wall unit from my bedroom to the living room before the cable guy comes. She was pissed that I didn’t call her Saturday for her to come over and tell me I was putting it in the wrong place to begin with. I thought I had it covered. Note to self: I have no idea about interior design even though I think I know what is right for me. I will get the help I need to move the dam unit, and as an added bonus I get to hang out with morgan. I just hope she sleeps long enough for us to move the wall unit without stopping to feed or change her!

I didn’t want help moving because I hate moving for other people. I don’t mind favors but moving sucks. My last move my cousin wayne came and helped. I helped him move when he went from one house to another, but he just came because he is a nice guy. My friend Joe flew up from Baton Rouge to help. he is the last person I owe a moving favor too!

I figured since it was going from one building to another I could handle it. It turns out I was correct. Go figure. It took me some time but I was able to move everything except the really big stuff (thanks mover guys) myself.

I did some final moving stuff today. I still have some glasses and other breakable stuff at the old place, but I have almost all my stuff at the new place already. I threw out allot of old books that I didn’t think I would ever read again. I also got rid of other crap. You never realize how much crap you have until you need to move it. I think this is the last move that I can do myself or with friends. The next one I will have so much stuff that I will need professionals.

Today was the day to do the bulk of my moving. I got allot done before 2pm. That is when Time Warner Cable was supposed to come and do my cable and cable modem. They give you a time frame of like 4 hours. Well when 5:50 roles around and they said they would be there before 6pm I got pissed and called. Turns out they claim they attempted to visit at 5:08PM. My dad was at the new apartment waiting for them. I had my phone with me and they claimed they called. No voice mail or missed calls. Now I don’t know who screwed up time warner or the security guys at my building. I am going to assume both did and scream at both. The security people at my apartment complex suck. Everyone else is great, but they suck. Time Warner was no help either. They said the next appointment was Wednesday. I got pissed and yelled at them some more. The best they could due was tuesday afternoon. Turns out they don’t do service on sunday or Monday’s. That would be nice if someone had an outage during those days.

Because of the cable guy’s I have to take Tuesday off after all. It was shaping up that I wouldn’t have to take off, but now I will.

On the plus side the movers came and did all my stuff that they said they would take and more. They were great. They were just a bunch of maintenance guys who work in my building. I asked them about taking my parents living room set and moving it to my place for me. they said it should be no problem. I am going to have them look at the set next week and we can setup a time to do it. that will make my new apartment complete as far as furniture goes.

I just took pictures from my visit to my new apartment. I need to figure out where everything will go. I may need to put a bunch of stuff on wireless. It will be cool, but will cost more, and will be slower.

I have not started to pack at all yet for this move. I am hopeful that I can just throw stuff in the moving carts that my building has and just move everything. only a small part of the stuff I have needs to be considered fragile. My sword set and Hard Rock glass’s.

One thing I noticed last night when I was at my new place was that I heard allot of background noise. I think it is from the Clearview Expressway. I am not sure, but it worries me. I am not that close to that road, and I will be 19 floors up. What was weird was that I only heard these noices from my bedroom and not the living room. Maybe the noise is coming from a vent or something? I am not sure. I will investigate further.

The new paint and carpet look awsome. I still need to pull up the crappy carpet in the bathroom but that should not be a problem. The bedroom already has wires for cable TV. All I need to do is wire for my computer stuff. I will most likely put my router near my TV so I can have less wires. Also the wall unit where the TV will go is in a more central point of the apartment. That way I will get better wireless coverage.

So I am selling some old (and not so old) stuff on ebay. I sold 2 of the 3 items already. I have some more to sell later this week. I sold an external DVD player for a laptop that I don’t need anymore now that I have DVD built into my Powerbook. I haven’t used it in a while so it is time to go. I also sold an older enterprise class 802.11b access point.

Still on auction is my Palm T (can’t spell it out) running OS 5. And now that the new HP iPaq’s just came out I will probably sell my current one and get one with bluetooth. I am pissed about that decision, but see my previous posts on my handheld’s.

I also just got my sister a new 80 gig hard drive. I need to go over and install that for her sometime soon. I am also giving her my scanner. She will scan all our baby pictures on slides for my dad. It works out ok since my scanner rocks, but does not work with OS 10 on my mac. It gives me a reason to go out and get a Mac compatible scanner. I only wanted the slide scanner attachment to do the baby slides anyway. If she will do them she can have the scanner.