So much to say, so much to say...
Holy crap, it's been a while since I've posted. So much for my goal of posting every day. Guess it keeps me from turning this into a pageant of the mundane...but now I feel like I have to write a Russian novel.
Let's see...I guess most important, we moved to the new place last Thursday. The
movers did an incredible job...the only thing that was damaged was my plastic tabletop hockey game that I've played exactly once. We've managed to get about 30% of our boxes unpacked...the kitchen is done and now the never ending battle of figuring out what goes where begins. The condo is a hell of a lot bigger than our
old apartment, but strangely enough seems to have less closet space...mainly since there's no pantry or front hall closet. For now, most of my clothes are in a closet in the living room, but that's gonna change tonight. We bought this monstrous
closet organizer that may require a second mortgage down the line...but hey, if it's got room for all my hats, dress shirts, and various items of White Sox coutre, I'm not grousing.
In addition to the closet, here's a few of the other things we did to the place:
-hired a painter to come in and paint every room. Main living area and the master bedroom is what Kris describes as a "sagey green." 2nd bedroom (soon to become my memorabilia room/office) is terra cotta red, kitchen backsplash and one accent wall are eggplant, master bath is eggplant and the guest bathroom is burnt orange. NOTE: I originally had this grandiose scheme of linking all the colors I mentioned to their samples on the
Benjamin Moore website, but it looks like it's going to prove to be too much of a hassle. Our painter was great, but talking to him for more than 5 minutes at a time made my ear feel like it was going to fall off. KInda how most people must feel after talking to me, I guess.
-dropped in a new kitchen sink and garbage disposal. First sink that we bought was granite and looked really cool, but cracked when it went into the hole since it couldn't handle the stress of being pressed against granite countertops, so we opted for stainless steel instead.
-replaced all the cabinet hardware
Still have not figured out how to use the gas fireplace yet. Hopefully won't need to use it until November.
On a gloomier note, 23 people were laid off from
my company this past Friday, including 2 that I was very close with (and one developer who I had been working on a project with for 2 months). Serious, serious bummer. Supposedly, these were the only cuts we'll see, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. We're in the middle of doing some upgrades to our permissions architecture, and the effects are pretty far-reaching...I;ve kinda been spearheading some of it (in addition to doing the actual physical upgrades) and am enjoying it...but my head has been just SPINNING for about 2 weeks. By the end of next week, things should be all squared away.
Played my first round of golf for 2004 on Sunday, in spite of a dreadfully sore neck. Hit the
new irons like a champ. Played a
great course out in Addison, and probably would have turned in a respectable round if my short game wasn't so awful. The greens were like concrete.
Sox playing not great, but good,
keeping pace with the Twins in the Central. Last week they swept KC at home and took 2 out of 3 on the road from Tampa, where they normally stink up the joint. Last night was a
wet and wild affair at US Cellular...hope they can even things up tonight in anticipation of my attendance there Thursday.
Bush has a new
ad out pointing out what a wigglin' waffler Lurch Kerry is. But he still hasn't figured out how to stop crap like
this from happening in Iraq. I disagree with you, Mr. President, this is a quagmire.
Ever realize something that feels pretty right at the time is pretty wrong, but if it was the same thing at a different time it would be all right? That garbled mess of syntactical thought has been running through my head for a couple days.
