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Don't worry about us. We're solid.

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I haven’t felt much like blogging lately, but lots has been happening.

Annie’s last week of work ended on Friday. Now she can focus on packing for the next week, and continue looking for a job in Washington.

My work situation continues to be strange, but I don’t feel like getting into that. Email me if you want details.

We went to go see Shawn Of The Dead with Eric, Jill, Jeff and Sean, and it was awesome. I also saw Resident Evil 2 a week or two ago, so it’s like Zombie Movie Month or something.

Yesterday Annie and I drove up to our new apartment and signed the paperwork and wrote a check for first-month’s rent. The lease agreement was about five pages long, and a little worrying, but I didn’t see any obvious dangers in it, aside from the danger of signing a six-month lease when I’m about to lose my job. Our apartment is in surprisingly good condition. Probably because the apartment manager lived there before us.

Qwest continues to suck rocks. I did a bit of math and found out that as bad as they suck, it would save us $50 a month to go with a landline and DSL instead of a cell phone and cable internet, so I was giving Qwest a chance. They were supposed to be able to tell me on Thursday, when the landline got connected, whether I could get DSL. On Friday, I found out that I cannot get DSL. For some reason, they CAN get it in the manager’s office, but not our apartment.

The good news is that after I complained to a manager, she agreed that I shouldn’t have to pay for the landline connection, since I was only getting it for DSL, so I shouldn’t be charged at all for anything in Washington.

Our cable internet is getting installed on Sunday, but the only timeslot available is from 2-6pm, and we’re not arriving until at least 5pm. Luckily, Mrs. Stockman graciously agreed to hang out at our apartment during that time so someone would be there when the cable guy arrives. We left her some folding chairs, a CD player and our tiny little TV to test the signal with.

Packing is proceeding at a good pace. We’ve already completely packed the dining room and my office, and Annie’s office is half-done. Over the coming week, we’ll be doing one room a night, and should get everything done in time to start loading the truck on Sunday morning.

Today, Mrs. Stockman is cooking brunch for the family and is then taking us to buy a new mattress set. My mother-in-law rules.

Anyways, I should quit typing now, because Oskar will be here soon, and I want to be ready to steal a few minutes with my studly nephew before the rest of the family arrives and wants to see him. Which reminds me I still need to post my photos of the boy… I’ll do that when I get home.

Getting Ready to Move Back to Portland

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Progress is being made! The path is being paved for my triumphant return to Portland! Wednesday is my last day at ShirtWorks. Last Wednesday was my last day at the radio station. Friday, Annie’s folks show up and we spend the day loading the truck. Today I got us a bunch of boxes. Aw Yeah.

Countdown to Portland: 6 days.

The Packing Has Started

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packing tally so far:

  • eight paper boxes of books.
  • one paper box of CDs
  • two paper boxes of movies.

Yes, the packing has started. Filled out a change of address form at the post office today, gathered my stuff from the tek office, and got Shem to fill out the paperwork to terminate me. He took great pleasure in enunciating that. “Scott, I’m filling out the paperwork to TERMINATE you.” Big smile on his face. I think he got almost as big a kick out of my paperwork as when he got to fill out Steve’s.

Watching the X-Men, Magneto rips apart part of the Statue of Liberty to pin the X-men to the wall. Urn turns to me and says “Nice try, but copper’s non-magnetic.” A few seconds later, Magneto makes the whole scene even funnier by chastising them with the line “Honestly, I thought you people live in a school!”

Annie and I spent the night at McMenamin’s Edgefield Hotel/Bar complex. It was pretty rad. Every conceivable surface has cool paintings on them, down to the water-sprinkler pipes on the ceiling, which have cute little faces painted on the pipe joints.

Our new apartment in Ellensburg is awesome. A nice two-bedroom directly across the street from our cool friends Urn and Kat, who are like duplicates of us. Urn is a computer geek in the art department with the same sense of humor and interests that I have. Kat is like Annie, right down to the back pain from a car wreck, and being short and round and cute. They both are obsessed with cute girly things like strawberry shortcake and bright colors. Kat is so excited about having Annie living across the street that she’s sitting at home right this moment preparing some small potted plants to keep in our apartment. It’s so much better than our current apartment. Each bedroom has a bathroom, and we’re going to use the second bedroom as a library/computer room. It’s on the first floor of the complex, and has a dishwasher, and a fridge with a separate freezer compartment, as well as built-in ethernet. Most excellent. :)