Mid-week Weekend Update

Whew.

Last weekend was Jeremy's wedding, so that means he's officially out of the house now. He got most of his stuff out; all that's left is a pretty sizable box that's in the kitchen. Given that it's Jeremy though, I'm satisfied with that. As I mentioned in the last post, I had been without internet since last Saturday. Finally, today the Comcast guy came out to hook me up. As with all things Comcast, it was a struggle. The first person I called claimed that I had to have a copy of the lease before they would turn on service. Luckily I called back later and the next person was less clueless and informed me that that was incorrect. Anyway I've got cable and internet again, and I'm glad.

Although really, it probably was good timing that I didn't have internet, because I have had a lot of stuff to move. Prior to Saturday, I had been working on moving the stuff out of the Man Room to the basement, or wherever it had to go. Once Jeremy left, then the process started to move my room into his old room. I finally completed that today, so I'm back to full operation in my new room. It's definitely nice to have more space.

That also means I can focus on taking care of the rest of the projects around here...I bought an on-sale bookshelf at Meijer I need to assemble, I need to get around to replacing the oven (which is another story), I've got to take some pictures of the various failures in the house to send to the landlord, assemble the TV and stuff that's going to the basement...the list goes on.

Not to mention another project that I finally got somewhere on - I have been trying to move from my slightly-illegitmate copy of Quicken 2005 to the open source GnuCash. GnuCash is a pretty serious tool, as it's a lot more accounting-like than the relatively simple Quicken. It's also not native to OS X, so it's been way harder than it should be to get it installed. I've been working on getting it installed for a long time, much less actually figuring out how to use it! Anyway, that's also to do.

Also when going through moving my stuff, I keep finding things that I want to sell on eBay. I've never sold anything on eBay, so I'm a little hesitant to start. Mostly it's figuring out the shipping...what to ship it in, where to get the materials, how to factor that into the cost so I don't get hosed, and what to do to make sure it doesn't explode in transit. Really I need to just start sell something once and it will be a lot easier after that.

In all this moving, I've discovered that I really enjoy throwing things away. I have thrown away a couple of Explorer loads of random crap from around the house, not to mention a couple of Granger-containers full of garbage bags. There's just been so much stuff sitting around the house from the various inhabitants that hasn't been taken care of until now, it's really good to put trash in its place. And one thing I miss about Ramblewood is the dumpster. Strange, I know. But it's really awesome to be able to take something, and just throw it in the dumpster, and it's immediately gone, done, ended. Anything, from a banana to a couch, just put it in the dumpster, and it ceases to exist. It's that easy. Like what if I wanted to throw away a couch now? I have no idea how I'd do it.

Actually I do. I'd probably take it to Ramblewood's dumpster...