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Moving – Status

Happily at this hour I seem to have most of my personality back in tact.

Despite protestations that I am not sick; I am lying. I have picked up the cosmic goo that jnanacandra had last week. This goo is what’s been keeping her coughing for about 3 days. It’s all settled into her chest.

Last night I lay in bed schnorgling from my one only mostly clogged nostril.

This has been a very hard month on the Freeple clan. Actually, a hard year.

For the record, as of Tuesday I am now officially unemployed. My last day at MSFT came and went.

aiden_freeman‘s last day at the the Mill Creek La Petite Academy was Friday. Today was packing and loading.

First and foremost: unbelievable thanks to faerievixen2, glitch25 and those thanks don’t begin to measure up to the unmeasurable work and assistance of “princekermit.

As I mentioned, this has been a hard month; the week has been worse. We got back from house hunting Saturday. We tried packing all week. Until you start trying to load, you have no idea how badly a job you’ve done at packing.

Friday afternoon the truck was picked up and dropped into our driveway by “D”. The packing continued into the evening until everyone fell asleep. caliban1227 was on hand to help wrangle Aiden Freeman. larisa_p was also there to help pack as she is our official truck driver for the week.

By saturday morning, I was pretty spent and sick. But I wasn’t sick. Because I couldn’t afford to be sick. tzaddi_93 had run for donuts and coffee before 7am. She is a goddess. She also was on hand to make sure that I didn’t lose it. (Which was quite a feat)

By noon it was obvious that we were hurting. I tried to push the maids and the carpet cleaner forward a day. I got the carpet cleaner. The maids… they may still show at 7am Sunday. I put a frantic call for help on the interwebs. Things were looking bad.

Around 1 pm we put Aiden into a back bedroom on a cot for a nap. I discovered this made the back bedroom that we are using for non-truck-bound storage…. into quite the successful Zero Room. About this time damianaswan and (S) came by. With the beds broken down; sleeping arrangements needed to be made. tzaddi_93 hit hotwire and reserved us an AMAZING and CHEAP hotel room, less than a 1.25 miles from the house.

Then C and B from the MacBU showed up; each bringing one person with them. Oh, the awesomeness.

At about 6pm we broke and went to dinner (leaving the front door wide open)

So, Where are we? Well, the truck has more loading to do; and we don’t have enough room for everything on the truck. (YIGH!)… We are ordering in a pod to bring the remainder to us separately.

We assuredly need all hands on site still tomorrow morning. I’ll be there about 8ish. The goal is to have the truck packed, the remainder in the garage, and the house emptied of clutter by 3-4 pm.

Do dinner with those that want and head off Sunday evening.

Sadly this leaves the remainder to be packed in the pods on Monday by tzaddi_93 and princekermit and (ANYONE ELSE WHO CAN HELP) {less than subtle hint}

So if you have free time tomorrow (Sunday) swing by… we’ll feed you if you opt to stay.. and it’s our last chance for goodbyes.

Thanks

I realise that not only isn’t everyone on FaceBook or Twitter; that some actively avoid it. I get it. I don’t go near MySpace for example.

That being said; I am utilising FaceBook and Twitter extensively this month for the process of moving.

Item 1: Truck loading day

Last evening I posted my call for Truck loading help.

I will be loading the truck the weekend of the 27th-29th. And I can use ALL hands on deck. I will be feeding and libating all that come by. Granted; if I know in advance… it helps me with getting the food in advance.

If you are on Facebook, head on over to the event page at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136178490243 and sign up. Even if you can only come for a short while; any time is beyond appreciated. If you’re not sure.. tick the "maybe" on the RSVP.

If you don’t like Facebook; drop a comment here.

Item 2: Take it away

THIS WEEEKEND: March 14th and 15th… We are having a massive packing and garage-ish sale, open house. Craft supplies, Books, Tables, TVs, Sofa, Bikes, Knick-Knacks, Chotchkies… And the cost to you is dragging it off. Donations accepted.

Come by, help box, get fed, or just rummage. We have a Lava Lamp ready for a new home!

Come one come all 🙂

I can’t help myself

Aiden’s post

Yes, it is late…

It is just coming up on 1am. I’ve been working on the computer pretty much all day since getting back from the midwife appt.

Let me say.. hearing that heartbeat is real. It’s amazing.

Since then I’ve been working on OTO files. Cleaning up some old documents with out dated information and also working on a project for a potential client.

I’ve started updating afreeman again with the more techy stuff.

Thanks to an ol’ colleague’s kibbitzing, after 4 hours I managed to get the project to work.

I also did a quick 9 person $5+$0.50 this evening. (NLHE) Managed to really do well. Only had one evil suckout and happily it wouldn’t have killed my chip position if I’d lost it. At the end of the tourney… I was the only one sitting at the table. Just me and my $22.50. And as it took 2 hrs…, $8.50 and hour means I’m actually not off to a bad start.

More good news hopefully to follow soon. Rechecking LJ, (not really) flirting a bit more with a really wonderful girl… and off to sleep

Well this is nifty

Apparently I’ve just discovered myself a natural at deep levels of logic that out class Bill Gates by an order of magnitude and I am in fact a Potentate of the Rose within the mystic order of the Fraternity of Petals Around the Rose.

Let me sum up… No, too quick. Let me (s)’plain.

Earlier at about Oh’darkAlmostMorning I came across a little puzzle in Fark. I played it, struggled with it, and about 20 minutes later victoriously posted about it. I did this because I love torturing the people who come across my journal.

With this out of my system, I slept. During my early morning slumber, something happened. I’m not sure entirely whose doing it was, but I’ve narrowed it down to either anubis75, astarte93, riordan or stmartin418. Rolling down one of their friends list came a denizen of LJ named septascarabae. A really nifty id and a great taste in musicals. (The last posting has a music of Avenue Q, so kudos there.)

While deftly trying to solve the puzzle I posed, another friend posed a challenge to septascarabae. It’s a very old (at least in age of the internet terms….Um Hi, Al?) puzzle known as Petals Around the Rose. (Please note…, no link)

Petals Around the Rose is a gaming simulation that has taxed the mathematical minds of Education even though it really only requires even the most basic of math skills. (Yes, even a 6 year old should be able to solve it.)

Sadly, knowing puzzles of this style. I was able to solve it before I even played it. That’s right. I grasped it upon my first view. With that being told. I will give you the link. The link that septascarabae used sadly doesn’t work on Safari. This is primarily because either Safari sucks with some JavaScript, or Safari is just too accurate in not running bas javaScript. The link does work in OmniWeb.

I did however find a flash based implementation that works in Safari over at baker.edu.

Interestingly, when you really and truly solve it you become a member of the Fraternity of Petals around the Rose. It will tell you more about the evil that the Potentate of the Rose as well as how Bill Gates himself dealt with this quandry.