An update...
Okay ... so, I'm sitting here at work, waiting for two 300GB drives to format ... may as well do the update that peemonkey "tagged" me to do ^_^
Been busy lately with getting various things ready for the house that I purchased. Just signed the papers for the Mortgage last Friday - need to talk to the person there to update the terms & such, as my parents are giving me more money so that I'll have a full 20% down, and avoid any extra CMHC fees. Also need to send her a fax or a PDF scan of a void check for the account which will be setup to automatically pay the monthly payments for me. I really appreciate the fact that I can send in scans, and be able to do stuff online (such as specifying for them to take out more money on a given month if I have extra to pay down on the mortgage that month.)
The only other thing I need to do before we can get the house is get some home insurance. I'm pretty sure I know who I'm going with -- found one or two other places that quote a lower price -- but then they say "plus applicable taxes" ... and I'm sure that on that amount, those taxes will completely undo the $10/yr or so that I'd be saving by going with them.
After that, everything (gas, hydro, water, cable, etc.) else *can* wait until we move in, so if I don't get it all sorted out before we move in, it isn't going to be horrible. I'll be taking the first week of July and the first half of the next week off of work in order to do some work on the house.
Other than that, Shannon and I have been doing well -- trying to get her more work than random unreliable temp-work stuff. We'll be going to see Weird Al in concert in July, so that'll be fun and we're both looking forward to that. And we'll both be going to peemonkey's wedding (I'll mail out the RSVP card soon, I promise! But we are coming ^_^), we just have to figure out how we're getting there & back, as it's a touch farther away from home than J&A's wedding was where I could just walk home afterwards ^_^
I've actually been working on driving, and am looking to take my test for my G2 soon ... need to figure out what is a good time for me to be able to use a car and then find a place to take it.
Still playing D&D and Magic: the Gathering, but lately Shannon and I have also been playing board games with friends as well. We've been really enjoying Arkham Horror, a board game based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The other weekend we played a game of it with some friends and we actually managed to seal off enough gates that we won before the Old One/Ancient Thing awoke and we had to fight it. Other games we've been playing lately include Descent (Like Hero's Quest, but more involved), Order of the Stick (A Card-based Board Game, based on an online stick-figure webcomic, which is based on D&D ^_^), and some smaller & quicker games like Strange Synergy (get a random group of abilities & assigned them synergistically [is that a word?] to your team of supers, then everyone fights it out), SP.A.N.C (Space Pirate, Amazon, Ninja Catgirls) & Munchkin.
... So, I think I've been here for about 2 hours as these drives format ... they're about 60% done now. @_@;
Hopefully this should be a good update for peemonkey & anyone else. ^_^
Been busy lately with getting various things ready for the house that I purchased. Just signed the papers for the Mortgage last Friday - need to talk to the person there to update the terms & such, as my parents are giving me more money so that I'll have a full 20% down, and avoid any extra CMHC fees. Also need to send her a fax or a PDF scan of a void check for the account which will be setup to automatically pay the monthly payments for me. I really appreciate the fact that I can send in scans, and be able to do stuff online (such as specifying for them to take out more money on a given month if I have extra to pay down on the mortgage that month.)
The only other thing I need to do before we can get the house is get some home insurance. I'm pretty sure I know who I'm going with -- found one or two other places that quote a lower price -- but then they say "plus applicable taxes" ... and I'm sure that on that amount, those taxes will completely undo the $10/yr or so that I'd be saving by going with them.
After that, everything (gas, hydro, water, cable, etc.) else *can* wait until we move in, so if I don't get it all sorted out before we move in, it isn't going to be horrible. I'll be taking the first week of July and the first half of the next week off of work in order to do some work on the house.
Other than that, Shannon and I have been doing well -- trying to get her more work than random unreliable temp-work stuff. We'll be going to see Weird Al in concert in July, so that'll be fun and we're both looking forward to that. And we'll both be going to peemonkey's wedding (I'll mail out the RSVP card soon, I promise! But we are coming ^_^), we just have to figure out how we're getting there & back, as it's a touch farther away from home than J&A's wedding was where I could just walk home afterwards ^_^
I've actually been working on driving, and am looking to take my test for my G2 soon ... need to figure out what is a good time for me to be able to use a car and then find a place to take it.
Still playing D&D and Magic: the Gathering, but lately Shannon and I have also been playing board games with friends as well. We've been really enjoying Arkham Horror, a board game based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The other weekend we played a game of it with some friends and we actually managed to seal off enough gates that we won before the Old One/Ancient Thing awoke and we had to fight it. Other games we've been playing lately include Descent (Like Hero's Quest, but more involved), Order of the Stick (A Card-based Board Game, based on an online stick-figure webcomic, which is based on D&D ^_^), and some smaller & quicker games like Strange Synergy (get a random group of abilities & assigned them synergistically [is that a word?] to your team of supers, then everyone fights it out), SP.A.N.C (Space Pirate, Amazon, Ninja Catgirls) & Munchkin.
... So, I think I've been here for about 2 hours as these drives format ... they're about 60% done now. @_@;
Hopefully this should be a good update for peemonkey & anyone else. ^_^