Well, I did say something about writing soon. And since the last entry before the “Hey, things might be broken while I move” post was dated November 2004, I guess I’ve been a little behind. I won’t bother trying to play catch-up, I doubt I could remember it all :>
We closed on our new house last Thursday. Man, the stress I had building up to that day was immense. I didn’t think I was getting stressed, at least until I realized I had my wonderful eczema on my leg again, and now on my arms too. Sure enough, now almost a week after we had settlement, it’s going away. And some people think that stress is just in ones head. Riiiight…
Anyway, the house is wonderful. Four bedrooms, two full bathrooms, full unfinished basement (two words: Work Shop), one car attached garage (no entry from the house though). Decent sized living room, freakin’ huge kitchen (especially compared to the ones Stephanie has been dealing with for the last six years), dining room, nice sized yard on a corner lot… it’s perfect. At least for now. Of the four bedrooms, one will be ours (upstairs, though the downstairs “should” be the master bedroom we like to go ‘up to bed’ and be able to leave windows open at night), one a spare, one our office space, and… one will be the ham shack. No longer will I be in a corner of the living room, I’ll have a room to myself to spread out :> Also be able to setup some stuff for an electronics workbench, and I plan on getting back into kit building. The last couple times I heated up my soldering iron, I realized how much I missed the smell of burning flux. Ahh, the memories.
The gallery site is up and running, but I’ve yet to put photos in it. I’ll be doing that soon, so that people can see the house (and other things I end up putting in there). Have to import the last of them into iPhoto first. And last, I hope to keep up with posting here again. I’ve said that numerous times, but now I’ll bet I’ll have more fodder (home improvement isn’t just a TV show, folks) and by having my site served somewhere else, keeping up with updates won’t be as big a deal anymore as it used to. Hell, if I find a router/firewall I can actually like and works well, I could even wipe and reinstall Joshua without thinking about it anymore. But first I’d have to find a router/firewall I like…