It’s been a sad time without weblog entries. I have not even been running my twitter updater. There was a good reason, though, as we have moved to a new house. The past couple of weeks have basically been a lot of moving and house stuff and whatnot. Amanda also started her new job (and obviously quit her other two).
Maybe I will recap the past couple of weeks (ok, that is highly unlikely). In between work I picked up Amanda’s dry cleaning, dropped off some forms at the post office to update our addresses with the DMV or Department of Licensing as it is called in Washington, went to Safeway for the first time in a long time to get some random supplies, and went to Lowe’s to get a little trash can for litter box deposits. I also picked up some deck/fence cleaner.

I need to treat our new fences and deck before the fall rains come, although it appears they are here already. I had tried to just using a bleach solution, and I wanted to compare the bleach to a specialized (and more expensive) mixture that is mostly bleach. It turns out that the specialized mixture works better. Bummer.
Other than work and whatnot, today I went over to MC/AC’s place for a pizza dinner. MC actually came to pick me up since Amanda had to go to a work dinner. It was fun. MC let me just let me drive their car home. He said they will just pick it up tomorrow.

Amanda came home late around 930pm or so. She was tired and went to bed quickly.

We also found out today that someone had stolen her credit card number and ordered a bunch of dish network things and paid a lot of money to Qwest for some reason. She cancelled the card. Hopefully they will take care of it, as Citibank !@%$!@% me over when I had a unauthorized charge a couple of years ago.

Amanda has another work thing tomorrow. Then we will be off for MM and BG’s wedding. The Kai will stay with his grandmother for the night.

• Something bad happened to my back on Saturday; it’s getting better, but it’s still stiff and kinda painful; drugs to the rescue?
• Amanda and I and the Kai went to the Japanese Garden on Sunday. We fed the koi. The Kai ran around in circles and chortled.
• It looks like we might actually close on the house in time (i.e. this Friday). We have a tentative date to sign the papers on Wednesday, and we have planned to start moving this weekend. Our lender should be getting the results of the appraisal tomorrow and then should be able to finish the loan docs. Hopefully there will be no snags. I will call to set up the utilities and whatnot when we sign, but I will call to setup our internet services early so we can get it asap.
• I made potato chips from our home grown tubers. They were tasty.
• It has been a crazy week in the Rainier Valley… a few shootings, ten year olds mugging people on the bus and then getting shot, people getting set on fire… wtf?
• Our tomatoes are starting to ripen, but despite the heat wave we had earlier in the week, it has been pretty cool, so it may take a while for the others.
• I went to see our PCP with regards to allergies, hacking coughs, and high blood pressure, and left with a prescription for fluticasone… as nasal steroid that will hopefully help keep the hacking cough down and enable me to use CPAP regularly which will then lower my blood pressure.