random life update
Jul. 8th, 2001 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I finished moving! Yay!
Moving has to be one of the most hideous processes ever invented. Especially multi-stage moving, like I just did. Move all my stuff out of my house into various friends' houses, move myself into one of those friend's houses for a week, and then move everything all over again.
But my reward is the fun part of moving - getting everything arranged how I want it :)
There's also something special about this time around. It's actually my apartment. I'm the one who chose it and rented it. I'm not living with friends who agreed to let me live with them because I didn't have anyone else to live with. I probably will get a roommate to keep expenses down, but I don't have to, and I can choose the roommate rather than having them choose me.
Also, for the first time in my life I get my own bathroom :) Such luxury...
I think I posted in a recent diary that the company that was supposed to provide internet access had gone out of business. That's true. However, pacbell just recently extended service to this area, so I won't forever be stuck on a dialup connection (and a slow one, at that. 36Kbs is the fastest I've been able to get here).
I have kind of a love/hate relationship with PBI. The service itself is great, in my experience. Sometimes little flurries of downtime, but not much. Of course, I've only used the service with a static ip, not with PPPoE. However, when you need support, it's like pulling nails. It took us six months to get service transfered from one house to another, and we had to get a second phone line in order to do so.
Hopefully it won't be quite as painful an experience this time around, with a completely new phone line that's never been transfered from anywhere, and a standard (as opposed to "special offer which existed two years ago and doesn't exist anymore") plan.
Now I just need to unpack everything, and buy everything that needs to be bought. A phone cord, for instance. The one I have now is about 4 feet long, and just barely stretches from the outlet to the couch. And all the cleaning supplies that other roommates have had before so I haven't had to buy. And a vacuum cleaner. And a new monitor that isn't broken which can double as a TV. And a VCR. And a microwave (though maybe I'll skip that one, and just force myself to learn to cook). And a dresser, so I can stop throwing my non-hanging clothes all over the floor. Oh, and a car one of these days, too.
Oh well, this is what garage sales are good for.
Air conditioning is very nice. Especially if you live in places where the temperature is commonly in the 100s during the summer. Cieling fans are nice, too. I can turn on the air conditioning for 20 minutes or so, and then leave the fan on, and everything is great.
I hate knowing things that I'm not supposed to know, and that I'm not supposed to talk to anyone about. Especially when it is something that seriously changes the way I think about someone. At least I've moved out now.
Today I tried to sign up for a livejournal.com account. I've been following several journals there for a while now, and felt I should get an account, at least for the purpose of responding. So I decided that if my prefered username wasn't already taken, I'd get one. Unfortunatly it was, so I didn't. Perhaps I will in the future. But for now, k5 will do fine :)
I finished moving! Yay!
Moving has to be one of the most hideous processes ever invented. Especially multi-stage moving, like I just did. Move all my stuff out of my house into various friends' houses, move myself into one of those friend's houses for a week, and then move everything all over again.
But my reward is the fun part of moving - getting everything arranged how I want it :)
There's also something special about this time around. It's actually my apartment. I'm the one who chose it and rented it. I'm not living with friends who agreed to let me live with them because I didn't have anyone else to live with. I probably will get a roommate to keep expenses down, but I don't have to, and I can choose the roommate rather than having them choose me.
Also, for the first time in my life I get my own bathroom :) Such luxury...
I think I posted in a recent diary that the company that was supposed to provide internet access had gone out of business. That's true. However, pacbell just recently extended service to this area, so I won't forever be stuck on a dialup connection (and a slow one, at that. 36Kbs is the fastest I've been able to get here).
I have kind of a love/hate relationship with PBI. The service itself is great, in my experience. Sometimes little flurries of downtime, but not much. Of course, I've only used the service with a static ip, not with PPPoE. However, when you need support, it's like pulling nails. It took us six months to get service transfered from one house to another, and we had to get a second phone line in order to do so.
Hopefully it won't be quite as painful an experience this time around, with a completely new phone line that's never been transfered from anywhere, and a standard (as opposed to "special offer which existed two years ago and doesn't exist anymore") plan.
Now I just need to unpack everything, and buy everything that needs to be bought. A phone cord, for instance. The one I have now is about 4 feet long, and just barely stretches from the outlet to the couch. And all the cleaning supplies that other roommates have had before so I haven't had to buy. And a vacuum cleaner. And a new monitor that isn't broken which can double as a TV. And a VCR. And a microwave (though maybe I'll skip that one, and just force myself to learn to cook). And a dresser, so I can stop throwing my non-hanging clothes all over the floor. Oh, and a car one of these days, too.
Oh well, this is what garage sales are good for.
Air conditioning is very nice. Especially if you live in places where the temperature is commonly in the 100s during the summer. Cieling fans are nice, too. I can turn on the air conditioning for 20 minutes or so, and then leave the fan on, and everything is great.
I hate knowing things that I'm not supposed to know, and that I'm not supposed to talk to anyone about. Especially when it is something that seriously changes the way I think about someone. At least I've moved out now.
Today I tried to sign up for a livejournal.com account. I've been following several journals there for a while now, and felt I should get an account, at least for the purpose of responding. So I decided that if my prefered username wasn't already taken, I'd get one. Unfortunatly it was, so I didn't. Perhaps I will in the future. But for now, k5 will do fine :)
