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The move was a success!  I never want to do that again.  It's been 25 years since the last one, and if I have to do it in another 25, it will be too soon!

Nothing got broken and even the piano made the trip unscathed.  My sister, Daughter-Type and her boyfriend helped unpack everything and set up the computer again.  No internet until yesterday, though.  But I was busy enough over the weekend that I really didn't miss it much.  And I have Verizon now instead of Comcast.  With a DVR!!  All this new newfangled technology is blowing my mind.  I have no clue what I need to start recording though.  Everything I watch is either streaming in some way or with dvds.  It's all so very exciting.

It feels strange not dealing with stairs every few hours, but nice.  I can always climb the three flights to get up to my new place instead of using the elevator if I'm feeling nostalgic.  I think I'm the youngest person in the building.  It's a 55 and over place and I won't be 55 until the 18th.  Still, they have a bunch of groups that get together in the evening, one of which knits and crochets.  Next week I think I'll join them.  The drive wasn't too bad this morning.  I leave early enough so I miss all the awful morning rush, and I'm thinking the same will be true for the return trip.

So a major event and everyone has survived with all pieces intact!  A glorious day indeed.

So, I finished watching Death Note last night and have been so blown away by the entire series that nothing else I tried to watch was holding my attention.  When all else fails, On Demand to the rescue, right?  They had a show about Krakatoa and how devastating that explosion was.  And how it will happen again.  I know, I know, right after Yellowstone goes up but still.  Very, very sobering.  The biggie with that volcano is that the series of eruptions in 1883 wasn't even the biggest.  I mean, this thing blew 1/3 of the island apart into three pieces.  Not to mention the tsunamis and the fact that the explosion was heard 3000 miles away.  They went on to give scientific evidence that a much larger eruption happened way back in 535 BC.  And then they went on to explain the gloom and doom that will happen when the volcano goes up again. 

Then I watched the show about Hannibal crossing the Alps with his elephants and what a brilliant tactician he was.  Along with being extremely brutal.  Nothing like a little light viewing before bed, right?

In preparing for a second spin with the crackvan in a few months, I've been researching my favorite fics I'm going to rec.

Me:  Types author into the LiveJournal search.
LJ:  ...
Me:  Types again s-l-o-w-l-y
LJ:  ...
Me:  Types something that I know is going to get a hit like, oh say, Supernatural
LJ:  ...
Me:  Hmmm, perhaps they've made some changes to the search feature and didn't tell me.  Clicks HELP.
LJ:  You idiot!  The search feature is kaput for now, stop trying to use it!
Me:  Sorry, I didn't know.  I never read your notices anyway because they never have anything to do with me anyway, except now they do.
*facedesk*

I *must* buy a snowblower.

I will never complain about my mailbox being vandalized again.  Well, maybe for another year or so at least.  I was on my way to work and happened to notice several mailboxes either lying on the ground, hanging by a few nails, or completely severed from their posts coutersy of the snow plows trying to keep up with our recent snowfall.  One that I saw had been reattached to the post by someone winding some type of cable around the box and the arm that sticks out.  Now, why didn't I think of that?

On the subject of mailboxes, mine has just the box peeping up over the mounded snow.  The pile of snow in front of the box is about three feet deep up near the lid and at least four feet wide.  I may never get mail again.

I listen to AOL Radio at work.  It's free and doesn't have too many commercials.  Used to not have any, but that's a complaint for another post.  I like to try out different stations just for variety.  There's a little star rating system at the bottom so I can rate the songs I hear.  With my tried and true stations I don't have any problem rating things, but when I am on a new station, I don't rate.  I feel I'm just a visitor there so why mess things up for the usual listeners.  But I have to say, The Allman Brothers Jessica will only get a one star rating no matter what station I hear it on.

You know you play too much WoW when you compare shoveling out your driveway to tackling an instance in the game.  My daughter and I were the DPS hanging tough with all the minor trash, while the boss (the cement textured, frozen snow/slush) sat and laughed at us from the very end of the driveway.  We then realized we needed a tank (my son) to help out.  A few healers would have been nice too.

And on the gaming front, I think I burned out on Star Trek Online.  I haven't played in a week, but am going gang busters in WoW again.

Now back to work.

1.  Law abiding citizens should not drive during rush hour or lunch time unless they are willing to keep up with/not obstruct traffic.

2.  Having a dream about flipping your boss the bird is not a positive way to start the work week after the holiday season.

3.  The woolly caterpillars have cursed us and winter hasn't even started for real yet.

4.  Dragon Age:  Origins is highly addictive.

5.  I should have paid closer attention during spelling class.

No tears or blood was shed.

We're off to a good start!

And speaking of blood, I just had the blood test from hell!  The lady had to stick me four times.

Only me, right?

Is it just me, or is Bumble Bee tuna putting less tuna in their 3 oz cans?