journaling: enabled

Well, in 11 days I’ll be in a new house (and without Internet access for a weekend). We still haven’t come up with much assistance for moving but hopefully we’ll be able to pry some people out of the woodwork. We’ve rented a storage unit here in town to transfer stuff to so hopefully there won’t be much to actually move out of the current place on moving day.

Work has been okay of late. Busy and a bit stressful … I haven’t been getting as much done as I would like. Email has been causing headaches for us with various issues (authentication daemon dying, quotas going haywire, etc.). We’re also in the midst of working on wireless to get that “up” by the end of the semester.

My ISP is re-organizing their network tomorrow, so I get a new static IP address. Hopefully they don’t do anything rash like start blocking incoming services. Then I’d have to start hunting for a new ISP I think.

Nothing big planned for the rest of the week, other than moving relating stuff. Need to buzz up to my parents sometime and get a trailer to move some of the larger items with (e.g. washer, dryer). Hopefully we can find some help this weekend so we can get them out to storage this weekend rather than waiting until 1-2 days before.

Tonight Liz and I went to Olive Garden in Eau Claire to celebrate 3 yrs together (those at the wedding may remember ceremony time of 4:17). We decided we like that one better than the ones in Maplewood and Oakdale. Much less busy than Maplewood and more open than Oakdale. Got to see the construction going on along I-94 that we skipped this weekend (saw signs for “90 minute delay ahead” and decided a detour down to Hwy 10 was in order). I guess that particular road work is certainly due.

Anyway, bedtime for this rabbit. zzzzzz.

Well, I haven’t posted much lately. Life has been busy. Work is slowly returning to something resembling normal after the month-long email crisis. The current hot project is wireless access, which is supposed to be available in a few weeks. There are a fair number of lab projects to do this summer, including a major upgrade of one of our Mac labs (complicated by the fact that we’re switching from PowerPC Macs to Intel Macs). I gave blood on Thursday! Voluntarily that is.

On the home front, we’re moving on April 28th! I have pics of the new house up in our photo gallery … some are from this past week when we got in to take measurements. Figuring out the finances has been quite a challenge. We need to purchase a fridge and a stove for the new place and since we’re going to be there a while, we’re getting nice ones. Complicating matters is the fact that the clutch on my truck decided to stop working earlier this week. Thankfully, rather than the clutch itself failing, it appears that it was just the “slave cylinder” for it (which looks to be about a $30 part) … but it’s still going to be a fair amount for labor.

Last weekend was the end of Dance Theatre stuff for the year, with our final concert on Saturday night. After the concert, rather than going to the cast part, Liz and I went out with Liz and Corey (ex-gf and her bf) to eat in Hudson. That was fun. We should get over to their neck of the woods one of these days.

This weekend I’m working on the DVD for this year’s Dance Theatre concert. I should have actually started it earlier this week, particularly since the adjustments to the video image (adjusting gamma) are taking a bit of time for the computer to render. We’re heading up to my parents place later this morning to spend some time visiting, but I think we’ll come home late this afternoon rather than staying up for dinner.

This coming week shouldn’t be too exciting. There’s the Dance Theatre banquet on Wednesday (hence a deadline for getting the DVD completed), so that should be fun. Not sure how much posting I’m going to get done in the next few weeks because there is a fair amount of packing to get done of course. We’re getting a storage unit in town so we can move most of the stuff out before moving day. We’ll be closing from noon to 2ish and then we can move in! Yay!