Personal

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.

I actually left work early today. I was as amazed as the readers must be. I needed to go and get my keys for my new apartment. I am actually moving next week. It is cool and a pain. I want to move and the new place is great, but I feel like I just got everything where I like it in the current apartment. I need to go over to the new place and check out the paint job.

Being home early had an added benifit. My sister and the baby were at my parents house so I went over and we all went out to dinner. Morgan was being fussy so we didn’t get to actually eat till after 8, but we were trying from 6 PM on. She is so cute. It drives me crazy when she cries because she puts on this really cute pouty face and gets all upset. Everyone will have their hands full with her when she grows up!

I had a close call yesterday with my Apple Powerbook G4 12″. I ran the airport extreme update to get the wireless device to comply with the final 802.11g spec that came out last month. So I run the update and reboot my powerbook only to find out that I can no longer get on my wireless network at home. I didn’t play with it because I was tired, but I was able to get it working at work on our regular 802.11b network. I get home and redo the network and all of sudden I get the network working. I was a bit scared for a minute. Rolling back from an update can suck or sometimes is not possible.

I am using a Linksys WRT54G 802.11G Wireless Route/4 Port Switch. I love linksys. This is my second router from them. When I got my powerbook I figured I would get an all in one router/wireless point that does 802.11g since the powerbook could do the faster G. I still need to ebay my old router and Lucent/Agere AP-1000 point. I still have to wait for the linksys wireless point I have to have the firmware update to comply with the 802.11g standard.

I love wireless and use it for tons of stuff around the house and work, but I will take this time to say that if you need to copy tons of stuff from one machine to another, get a 100 megabit wired switched connection. You will save yourself hours of waiting. 802.11g rocks (in my house I get double the speed from 802.11b while my laptop sits on the desk above my wireless point) but it is still not that fast for corporate use. At home with 1 computer on a network going to the internet, it is fast enough. Of course in that situation 802.11b is fast enough since the limiting factor is your internet connection. Just my two cents.

All in all I had some issues and I got some luck back today so it almost fixed itself overnight! How about that for Mojo?

A bunch of us ended up going out after work. We ussually goto a bar by my office called No Idea? It is cool. We are creatures of habbit. Today I bumped into a few friends from when I was working at Y&R / BM. Dave and Nick were out playing pool. I didn’t speak to them much today. I need to hang out with them more. People out and about were Keith, Jenn, Rajive, Sam, Matt, & Vijay. We had a good time, but we cut out early. Jenn had plans, kieth was tired, and rajive had a train to catch and Vijay went to some sweedish party (no joke). I was exhausted from the week. We are looking to meet up on Saturday to goto some club Vijay knows about. Gus was MIA due to a long day of travel. Others were also MIA. Not sure what was up with Mark. He was in the office, and then didn’t end up out at the bar. I guess that is what happens when you have a new born baby at home.

What I need to do most this weekend is get a good night sleep. I used to get good long sleeps over the weekend. I am not recently. I can’t seem to get up in the morning during the week, but the weekend comes along and I get up at 10-am. When I mean sleep late, I am talking about 1pm or so. I used to love doing that in college. I even could do that for years after college. Maybe I am getting older?