The Treehouse Blog

No overly interesting things, just a bunch of little stuff. The job situation is still pending, but I think there has been some positive movement in both areas.

I’m looking for a new GPS, currently leaning towards the Garmin GPSMAP 76S. My old GPS currently gets signal too weak to be useful (most of the time no satellites). It might be possible to fix that (maybe a broken antenna lead, or something), but that would involve breaking into the gasketed case, which might limit its portable use in the future. Things haven’t changed substantially since my brief search last summer. I’ve had to keep my walks limited to less adventerous excursions, but the GPS might still have to wait behind an air conditioner and freezer in the purchase queue.

And Lannic ’05 is this Saturday. I gave the firering a test by throwing a minor picnic for the family this evening, and all went well. Now I need to get the high-speed NetMRG configured, and get the rest of the logistics taken care of. Should be a blast though.

The “bedroom stuff” was moved this evening, which means I’ll be spending the night :D. I still have a bunch of books and things at… erh, the parent’s house, but those can move on at a much reduced pace. I can only hope that having this phase of the transition done will allow me to spend the time I need to on my classes, which I’m sorry to say, have been neglected substantially as of late. Don’t rush over to visit just yet… the living room is full of boxes, and I’m not going to worry about the entertainment system until things calm down ;).

The office has moved! Thank’s to Doug‘s help, all of my office/computer/network stuff has been moved in. We’re up on Kuhn cable, and things are looking good. Not sure when the bedroom stuff will be moved, but probably no later than next weekend. Chris also stopped buy this evening (er, last evening at this point)and dropped off a couch, and helped out with other stuff. Thinks are starting to get wrapped up, which is good news for my classes, which I have definitely been neglecting.

Painting is essentially complete. Getting the inside of the exterior doors painted would be a bonus, but isn’t required, I guess. The new flooring has been installed. The toilet innards have been replaced. All of the new light fixtures are up. So, it’s essentially ready to be moved into. The todo list looks like… installing new faucets, tracing and terminating cable to the patch panel, having Kuhn install cable (Friday), and buying the final touches (new blinds, stocking the kitchen, etc). Chances are there will be some type of moving this coming weekend. But, at the moment, I need to try to finish any and all homework I should have been doing over break…

Things are still moving along. I have the cables for the new wall jacks terminated, and the light in the data center (closet) is done. Tonight I began replacing tan electical outlets with more up-to-date white ones. Should neutral wires spark when the breaker is off? Seems that they do if you have CFLs on anywhere in the house. Interesting, but it was a bit unsettling.

In other news, I finally got around to cancelling my old cell, so if you need the number, feel free to ask.