95% done moving

I moved most of the large items this weekend. I still have a few odds and ends (less than one car-full) left at the house. One more trip, and then one trip to wash the carpets, and I should be fully vacated from the old location, and fully “in” the new. Of course, everything remains in boxes, and finding anything is near impossible (and dangerous if you’ve got to walk over things), but I’m workin’ on it.

I’m mostly just interested in getting back into a regular routine.

On the upside (and on a side-note), the Red Sox beat the A’s tonight, the Yankees lost, and Manny played his first game in the last 24 days. Papi hit a home run… hopefully the Sox are using these last few to secure the division, go for best record in the A.L., and win some “meaningful games” before the playoffs start. Get ready…

...all this traffic.

…all this traffic.

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Getting away from all this traffic and signing the lease to my new place today. Woo hoo! Or at least I think woo hoo.

Not going to start moving in yet, because I have a month overlap to do that.

Slightly scared, however, that I am looking forward to going back there so I can re-evaluate the place in my mind… for size and things like that. Shouldn’t I know that beforehand? Oh well.

7pm… and counting.

Moving, but not yet

I am trying hard to find a new place in Bethesda, but everything is so expensive… if only they would start the purple line, life would be much easier. I’d still be trying to move regardless, but life would be easier. Ideal location would be on 185 (Conn. Ave) near the beltway so I can jump right on to get to Monday night orchestra rehearsals, as well as riding my bike to work. We’ll see.

I’ve been avoiding riding my bike to the metro and taking that, because I can reduce my commute time from 3 hours to 1 or less by driving. That, and oh yea… someone got shot recently on the path I took every day this past year. This is after the random stabbing. Not going to be going that way anytime soon.

I do need to get back out riding, however. I may have to start going elsewhere… or even driving to a spot to start. Thats a lot of effort… not sure I am up for that.

Prelude

So I got the domain, I got the hosting, and I have the blog. I just need a few hours (ha!) to design the site, and put the blog in it. Yea…

For the moment, I’ve decided to go with this theme… I like the yellow, and its fairly simple. Simple is good. I don’t like the long lines of text, but if you want something done right, gotta do it yourself.

More later!