House
So I bought a house.
Well, we bought a house; doc and I both went half in, since we could both afford the mortgage alone and it seemed the most fair thing to do. So I own half a house, and if some unfortunate accident were to befall doc, I would own another half of a house, and then a few more and I could put down a hotel.
It's a pretty roomy house, with a decent-sized backyard crammed full of trees, a ~hot tub~ included (and it even comes with complimentary dead bees), etc etc. Better is that the house is actually designed for people to live in, unlike the last three goddamned apartments I've been in, so all the cupboards and plumbing and everything is actually built like a reasonable human being might expect instead of having been outsourced to a Chinese child making 20 cents an hour. We have ceiling lights in every room and I have never felt fancier. But best is that there is a Subway six minutes away -- by foot! -- and it has an adjacent strip mall with a grocery store and other such sources of delicious treasures. As I have managed to go five years without actually owning a car, this is mighty convenient for me, and beats the last place's 26-minute distance by at least now-I-don't-have-to-order-pizza-when-we-run-out-of-food percent.
There's also hardwoo-- well, hard flooring. Immediate advantage is that my DDR pad actually stays in place now, which makes me look like I can sorta play. Less immediate advantage is sweeping instead of vacuuming.
I've been playing every night for the past three weeks now, in an effort to be less of a fatass and I guess more Korean. It had started to work back in March, but then I buggered off to visit Mel/PurpleKecleon for a month. Then we started moving and ate a lot of pizza and fast food while we didn't have food around or the patience to make it. So.. little bit behind there. And I am finally noticing that diet soda really does make me very inclined to munch on anything I can find, so I guess that's gotta go. :(
Uhm. Probably gonna have Mel over for a bit in June, then we'll both go to Anthrocon and watch furries together. Fascinating!
And on a complete tangent, I hate my current (work-sponsored, Storm) phone with a burning passion and really want an Android one. I was all geared up to snatch a dev G1, but now I see October will bring a v2 that is rather more streamlined. Still, any opinions on carriers or phones or Android in particular? If you tell me to get an iPhone I will feed you your own shiny white entrails.
Well, we bought a house; doc and I both went half in, since we could both afford the mortgage alone and it seemed the most fair thing to do. So I own half a house, and if some unfortunate accident were to befall doc, I would own another half of a house, and then a few more and I could put down a hotel.
It's a pretty roomy house, with a decent-sized backyard crammed full of trees, a ~hot tub~ included (and it even comes with complimentary dead bees), etc etc. Better is that the house is actually designed for people to live in, unlike the last three goddamned apartments I've been in, so all the cupboards and plumbing and everything is actually built like a reasonable human being might expect instead of having been outsourced to a Chinese child making 20 cents an hour. We have ceiling lights in every room and I have never felt fancier. But best is that there is a Subway six minutes away -- by foot! -- and it has an adjacent strip mall with a grocery store and other such sources of delicious treasures. As I have managed to go five years without actually owning a car, this is mighty convenient for me, and beats the last place's 26-minute distance by at least now-I-don't-have-to-order-pizza-when-we-run-out-of-food percent.
There's also hardwoo-- well, hard flooring. Immediate advantage is that my DDR pad actually stays in place now, which makes me look like I can sorta play. Less immediate advantage is sweeping instead of vacuuming.
I've been playing every night for the past three weeks now, in an effort to be less of a fatass and I guess more Korean. It had started to work back in March, but then I buggered off to visit Mel/PurpleKecleon for a month. Then we started moving and ate a lot of pizza and fast food while we didn't have food around or the patience to make it. So.. little bit behind there. And I am finally noticing that diet soda really does make me very inclined to munch on anything I can find, so I guess that's gotta go. :(
Uhm. Probably gonna have Mel over for a bit in June, then we'll both go to Anthrocon and watch furries together. Fascinating!
And on a complete tangent, I hate my current (work-sponsored, Storm) phone with a burning passion and really want an Android one. I was all geared up to snatch a dev G1, but now I see October will bring a v2 that is rather more streamlined. Still, any opinions on carriers or phones or Android in particular? If you tell me to get an iPhone I will feed you your own shiny white entrails.