DSL Purgatory and Move In Joy
Well, I'm finally back in the office, had to take yesterday off as the I'd run my body down so much during the move that I was pretty well pancaked yesterday morning.

The quick news, we're in the new house, its an utter mess, we have no phone, DSL or cable. But we do have a sweet new huge refridgerator that was just loads and loads of fun to load into my truck and drive home from San Leandro with last night. We also have a shiny new washer and its dryer twin is still waiting for a pickup in San Leandro, guess where I'm headed after work? Oh boy.

At least it'll be way easier to drive back with just the dryer and not the six foot tall behemoth fridge in the back.

Let's see, the move in day was Saturday and we had some friends come down and help out, Mandi and Jamie, you guys are the absolutely coolest pals ever! Especially after a low sleep night with a sick three year old and a newborn to care for. Just awesome! Paul also gets a big shout out thanks for coming down last night at 10 or so to help unload the truck and get the fridge into the house (which required us to remove not only the door into the kitchen but both doors on the fridge and even the hinge mechanisms too, but then it went in easily).

I made, I think, four trips with the truck, Jamie matched me with the van and we loaded from the apartment and unloaded into the house. Filling the garage and the living and kitchen with our stuff. But the best part is that its not stuffed full, and there's still the whole upstairs to spread the stuff around into. The new house has ALOT more room and the monster garage certainly has been awesome already. Right now its got about half the stuff, my truck's camper shell, all five bikes, a couple of tables, chairs and more stuff and there's still space to walk through. The slow process of unpacking has barely begun though and the next week or two will be a long process of opening boxes, assessing the contents and pushing it in the general direction of its intended destination.

But we are living there now, I'm commuting up Highway 1 to Santa Cruz now while P has a very short trip to work which is only fair because she'll be getting less and less mobile as the weeks and months stack up. But for now, she's happy, feeling pretty good most of the time but is a little tired.

I'm tired and sore from all the working and lifting and stressing about all the hassles and things to think about. But we have a house, we have a nice big comfortable and warm, my mantra from a few weeks ago about double pane windows is paying off nicely in a warmer and more efficient house. Its alot bigger but stays alot warmer because we don't bleed heat anywhere near as badly through the windows.

We've met some of our neighbors, nice folks with kids and a big rottie out back so there's no worries about me getting my dog aside from their dog getting into our yard and getting medieval on it. But I think that'll be an unlikely event as the Rot looks like he's got a few years and is more interested in kicking back than in kicking ass.

I will post some pics of the place when its been pulled together a bit more and we've decorated some. Its a little stark right now. And our list of improvement projects stands at 34 separate projects right now, with more being added all the time. Maybe I'll make another page for the site to track our progress through the list. And I'm going to actively start to sell my SV and get back on a Concours, I need the size and storage more than I need the sphincter clenching raw speed of the little twin.

With some luck we'll have a phone, cable and 'net access tonight so I can get the office space in shape and usable. But I'll be out on the road a good portion of the night anyway so it may make no difference either way.

But its good to be able to check the news and see what's up. Whodda thunk John Kerry would win Iowa? Damn, looks like maybe that second mortgage on his house to keep his campaign alive may have been money well spent and a risk worth taking. Did anything else happen while I was out?