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Easiest bus ride ever!

Well, for all my bitching, getting upstate by bus on Wednesday was pretty damn easy. First off, Julie let me off early (you know that bit about the coolest boss? Still right up there.) Then, Greyhound had about a billion extra people working (or port authority did,) either way, the place was working like clockwork for once.

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12:00 am | permalink | /life/travel | 0 writebacks |

This is what happens when you're too bored during jury duty.

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This Dreaded Day Of Travel

Well, tomorrow we head to our respective homes for the Thanksgiving break, and join the travelling masses once again. I forget how amazingly awesome NYC's public transportation is until something like this comes along. Day in and day out I get to and from work without much of a thought. Sure, sometimes the trains are delayed a bit, but really, I've been a lot more pissed off sitting in traffic than I ever have been waiting for a train.

Now, granted, I will be sitting on a bus for this trip, but that's actually what's got me worried. See, originally I had planned to check with Greyhound and make sure that they were going to be running plenty of extra buses and have someone at Greyhound reassure me that they do this every year, and delays are expected but everyone eventually gets there. If the customer service person laughed at me and asked what the hell I was doing taking a bus the day before thanksgiving, I was going to suck it up and pay the extra bit for the train.

Well, I found myself a bit sidetracked by life, and although incredibly happy with the life stuff that occured in the time when I was supposed to be doing all this travel planning, i've left myself with sold out trains and the realization that customer service at greyhound bus is "claire, your virtual service representitive."

I know claire... I know her all too well. I've unleashed my fury on Sprint's "claire" many a time and needless to say, we're not on speaking terms.

So, seeing that I'm a web geek by trade, I did what any self respecting nerd would do and scoured the Greyhound site for any sign of preparation on their part. What I found instead was a digitial "go screw yourself if you're travelling tomorrow." The site basically says, if your bus is sold out, get on the next one if there are seats, but that one's sold out too, oh, and the one after that, and by the way, we're still selling tickets for said sold out busses, so it may be till, oh, maybe saturday before we can get you there. By the way, no refunds or exchanges. Suck it, and have a nice day.

Wish me luck.

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::Ahhhhhhhhh::

This post basically one long digital sigh of relief.

Last night was the first time I've gotten a full nights sleep in a long time.

A month ago, Sara and I took on the task of renovating the apartment across the hall, and since that day, it's been night after late night of moving the old tenants crap out and down, organizing and moving our stuff, painting the new place, spackling, caulking, and doing TONS of minor repairs.

Beyond that, there were also some major renovations to be done, including replacing the bathroom vanity, the entire kitchen floor, the kitchen faucet, and scrubbing down what must have been a decade of filth from every surface in the apartment.

As of last night, we're officially done with all the hard stuff. All that's left now is a minor leak under the sink in the kitchen and some cleanup. We wish we'd taken some before pictures, but the "after" will have to do for now. Excuse the mess - We're still putting out stuff in and getting it where we want it to be!
See the renovations

3:53 pm | permalink | /life/apt | 0 writebacks |

Some Minor Changes

You may notice some minor changes around here as I finally start to do more than just use basic blosxom and a stock theme. In particular, check out the Friends and Linkage sections on the left. More to come...

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Note to Self

Never tell buyer you're going to give them free upgrade to express shipping because of their outstanding bid. It will cost you more money than you expect.

9:18 pm | permalink | /life/apt | 0 writebacks |

Jury Duty

Well, I've officially been selected as an alternate for a Jury. I'm sure it violates about 4 million laws if I post anything about the contents of the trial here, but suffice to say, the experience isn't all that bad, it's just horribly timed - I've got e-bay sales to ship out today! Damn democratic republic.

12:04 am | permalink | /life/work | 0 writebacks |

Moved in By Mistake

Well, I hadn't planned on moving us into the new apartment until thursday, but here I find myself sitting over in the new place typing away early in the wednesday AM... How did we get here you ask? I'll tell you

I had originally planned to do one room a night - that seems simple enough, except for the fact that our new place has more rooms - and a lot of the stuff was moving from the bedroom in our old place to the living room here. Especially the carpet. Of course, I wanted to put the carpet down first in the new living room, so I set about trying to pull it up.

Never - Ever - do that unless you plan to move everything that is also ON TOP of said carpet. Around 10PM, I finally cried uncle, told Sara I'd screwed up, and decided just to move the whole bed (which was now in pieces and all over the old apartment).

We got the bed and carpet moved over, and Sara went to sleep over here, and I began the task I'd set out to complete so many hours ago - complete one room tonight. I brought the entire entertainment center and my computer and desk over, and just for the hell of it, plugged it all in to the cable that was there. Next thing you know, the cable box has the correct time on it. I was puzzled and excited - maybe the cable was STILL ON from the old tenant, and he just happened to have the same exact RCN service we did? What are the odds of that?

Well, whatever the odds, you're reading this, which means that I got all of our internet and computer stuff hooked up and it just happened to work on the cable that's in here. I even have the same freaking IP address. Hat's off to RCN. Now tomorow all I have to do it call and tell them where to send the new bill.

Oh yeah. Right after my Jury duty... Grrr.

2:09 am | permalink | /life/work | 0 writebacks |

It's quiz night!

Yeah, I can't sleep, so I took another quiz!

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According to the SelectSmart.com Belief System Selector, my #1 belief match is Secular Humanism. What do you believe? Visit SelectSmart.com/RELIGION		According to the SelectSmart.com Belief System Selector, my #1 belief match is Unitarian Universalism. What do you believe? Visit SelectSmart.com/RELIGION

1:46 am | permalink | /life/politics | 1 writebacks |

The Political Compass

Tearsong found a remarkable new site today - it's called The Political Compass, and basically, it measures a bunch of your political viewpoints and places you on a map along with other notable politicians.

This would be neat enough on it's own, but the authors of the site have gone a step further and abolished the traditional left-right scale and replaced it with a 2D left-Right x Authoritarian-libertarian matrix. It's pretty uncanny in it's accuracy, and my results certainly shocked me a bit! So much for being left-middle!

My Score:
Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62
Basically what that means is that I'm a hard line lefty as far as economics go (industry must be regulated, corporations will NOT do the right thing if left to themselves, etc...) BUT i'm very libertarian when in comes to the personal freedoms of the individual - basically, if you're not hurting someone else, it's none of my, or the government's business. Some of my more radical views about the well off individual's responsibility to help those lost in the generational cycle of poverty landed me way in the corner of this little graph.

Find out where you lie on the political compass

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$$$

When the heck did I become a spend-a-holic. I mean really? I was always the one that didn't need money, could do with out it, etc, etc...

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Almost Instant Gratification

Well, pretty much because I have the coolest boss on the face of the planet, I have a new Palm Tungsten E today, and I'm sure I'll be posting here about the ridiculous things you can now do on a Palm well into the future.

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More Stuff in One Weekend...

I think all I have to say at this point is - wow.

I'll have pictures in /photos early tomorrow, but what I can tell you right now is that this year was a freaking banner Halloween.

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