Closing the House
It is almost as official as it could be. We get the keys to our house on Wednesday! The current owners are moving all this week and we should be able to start moving in over the next weekend and then over the course of the next month.

My beater truck (which is presently staring down at me from the third floor railing of the parking garage) will prove invaluable in transporting loads from the apartment to the house. Once the process has begun, I envision taking a single trip down each night to unload another truckload of stuff into the garage. We'll likely still live at the apartment through most of the process (or until the DSL connection moves south) but it'll be super cool to get settled into the new house.

Still far too much to do there to even think about getting really settled but the move will keep us busy enough, and then the painting and then the renovations and repairs. We'll probably have about a year in there before we've gotten to most of our projects. But that's alright, we've got at least a two year window to deal with and probably closer to three.

But the new year is starting off with a bang at my work. My first press release of the year has already made an enormous splash and we are getting lots and lots of hits for it! Never a bad way to start a new work week and a new year. Shame our phones have been out since last week although they finally did get them up and running a few minutes ago.

And, with some luck, I'll be adding the lumber rack and camper shell to my truck later on today after work to complete the acquisition of a servicable vehicle. Now all it will need are some cool tall tires, a paint job and a sprayed in Rhino liner for the bed and it'll look pretty damned good again. Oh yeah, it needs a stereo very badly because there's nothing, not even a crappy am radio, in there right now.

Oh yeah, and some Christmas presents that still need to be sent out to my family back on the east coast but since most of them are still out of the country I think I'm okay for now. Not like I've been sitting around doing nothing anyway. And I think that about brings the world up to date on all things Johnny Huh? I've got a Cooking Stories post I'm working on and this week's set of questions for the Cheddar X and a few chapter ideas percolating for IP Free Write as well as some offline work I've got to do. Its going to be a busy January. If I get ambitious then maybe I'll draft up the floor plan for the house and post that sometime as well.

I can't wait to start tearing apart that back yard! So much to do, maybe we should make up a punch board to knock off jobs as they come up, get worked on and completed. Maybe we just need the Monster House folks to get in touch with us so we can let them have at the house and turn it into an something super cool?