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- Tue, 19:33: Doing laundry at the old apt. Rare to find unused machines...
Oct. 5th, 2011
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Oct. 5th, 2011 01:40 amYesterday I could not brain. way too little sleep and too much physical stuff. Went to bed early-ish, slept pretty soundly once I did sleep (it took a while), woke up too early but got about another hour in there.
Work was good - software arrived that was keeping me from doing one test, and one of the other techs figured out how to make half of our ad insertion tool work. ( Cut for techie TMI )
Went with the gang for lunch (the stuff I was going to drop off at Goodwill can wait till I have more than a single bag's worth) to SmokeEaters because a couple of them wanted to try the hotter wings. "Nuclear" is what they call it. I don't like spicy, I'd rather taste the chicken, so I tried the mild teriyaki & honey mustard. They put way too much sauce on them. The teriyaki was ok, the honey mustard was a lot better after I scraped off the sauce. One of the fellows who went nuclear pretended he was fine, but he only finished half the wings and was turning progressively redder as the meal continued.
Home by way of Safeway to get laundry stuff, and decided to do laundry at the apartment when I saw nobody was using any of the machines. That was better than sitting in a laundromat. I finally cleared off all the stuff on top of the piano and dusted it off, and printed envelopes for mailing my change of address to the IRS and Franchise Tax board. Went to get my clothes out of the washer, and the one with my jeans & t-shirts had stopped running with a 3/4 full tank of water during the rinse cycle. While the other two loads dried I put those into another machine. Used the cell phone to go to the machine company's web site & place a service call and request a refund.
Then it was back to the PC, where I went through a long list of places which needed my new address. The only other one which needed it on paper was my parents' trust fund bank account (some federal law about trusts not allowed to have an online presence).
Paypal gave me a hard time about updating the addresses for a couple of credit cards - apparently the changes I made at the card companies' sites had not clicked in yet. No worries, no rush to get that done.
I tried to update my address for the water/sewer/garbage billing company, but it would not let me log in. After trying six different ways it was clear my account was no longer active, which was the whole idea. I guess the landlord notified them.
TechCU would not let me order checks. I need to call them about that - my rent and Comcast and a couple of others like to do auto payments from checking, and I have no routing number to give them. Again, no rush as I won't be funding the account and setting up direct deposit for a week or two.
The piano top was all I packed today, I feel like such a slacker, but the address changes took a couple of hours. Did the DMV one at work - they let you do driver's license and vehicle reg online, and they will also update your voter registration for you. Neat.
It has been raining, sometimes pretty hard, most of the night. This makes me unhappy. I just hope it gets it out of its system before Saturday. Preferably before Friday because that's when I'll move the cats and the computer setup over to the new place.
Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Home, get my camera gear into their Pelican cases and pack anything in the computer room closet which can be packed. Most of what is in there are plastic bins which just need the doors taped closed. But somewhere in there are my scuba fins, mask & snorkel.
Work was good - software arrived that was keeping me from doing one test, and one of the other techs figured out how to make half of our ad insertion tool work. ( Cut for techie TMI )
Went with the gang for lunch (the stuff I was going to drop off at Goodwill can wait till I have more than a single bag's worth) to SmokeEaters because a couple of them wanted to try the hotter wings. "Nuclear" is what they call it. I don't like spicy, I'd rather taste the chicken, so I tried the mild teriyaki & honey mustard. They put way too much sauce on them. The teriyaki was ok, the honey mustard was a lot better after I scraped off the sauce. One of the fellows who went nuclear pretended he was fine, but he only finished half the wings and was turning progressively redder as the meal continued.
Home by way of Safeway to get laundry stuff, and decided to do laundry at the apartment when I saw nobody was using any of the machines. That was better than sitting in a laundromat. I finally cleared off all the stuff on top of the piano and dusted it off, and printed envelopes for mailing my change of address to the IRS and Franchise Tax board. Went to get my clothes out of the washer, and the one with my jeans & t-shirts had stopped running with a 3/4 full tank of water during the rinse cycle. While the other two loads dried I put those into another machine. Used the cell phone to go to the machine company's web site & place a service call and request a refund.
Then it was back to the PC, where I went through a long list of places which needed my new address. The only other one which needed it on paper was my parents' trust fund bank account (some federal law about trusts not allowed to have an online presence).
Paypal gave me a hard time about updating the addresses for a couple of credit cards - apparently the changes I made at the card companies' sites had not clicked in yet. No worries, no rush to get that done.
I tried to update my address for the water/sewer/garbage billing company, but it would not let me log in. After trying six different ways it was clear my account was no longer active, which was the whole idea. I guess the landlord notified them.
TechCU would not let me order checks. I need to call them about that - my rent and Comcast and a couple of others like to do auto payments from checking, and I have no routing number to give them. Again, no rush as I won't be funding the account and setting up direct deposit for a week or two.
The piano top was all I packed today, I feel like such a slacker, but the address changes took a couple of hours. Did the DMV one at work - they let you do driver's license and vehicle reg online, and they will also update your voter registration for you. Neat.
It has been raining, sometimes pretty hard, most of the night. This makes me unhappy. I just hope it gets it out of its system before Saturday. Preferably before Friday because that's when I'll move the cats and the computer setup over to the new place.
Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Home, get my camera gear into their Pelican cases and pack anything in the computer room closet which can be packed. Most of what is in there are plastic bins which just need the doors taped closed. But somewhere in there are my scuba fins, mask & snorkel.
Cooling off, period.
Oct. 5th, 2011 10:02 pmHauled a lot of stuff out to the dumpster tonight, made two trips. First load was a lot of Styrofoam which I did not want to toss because it is expensive to buy, but I don't plan on doing much more on eBay, and just plain forgot to ask if anyone I knew wanted it. Also threw out a clothes hamper on wheels, won't be needing that at the new place (I have small bins which will be better). And a ton of old photos and frames from when I was just starting to show my work at con art shows, and have since gotten bitch-slapped by the clue fairy regarding reasonable display sizes and frames and such. I still need to ditch some tubes, but while looking through that rack I found four 2008 The Day The Earth Stood Still posters, picked up at a con's trailer park, I guess. May bring one those to the wedding for my nephew.
Also packed up everything on the livingroom walls, and in the TV stand. And a lot of stuff on the coffee table. Found some items I did not know I had.
Cooling off from that now. After I'm done online I'll attack the camera gear in this room, and along with it the stuff on top of the filing cabinet, which is also mostly camera gear. Filters and such. I need to go to an office supply place and get file boxes to pack the stuff in the filing cabinet.
As I suspected there was one major address change I forgot. Kaiser. Did that at work. Paypal still won't authorize the new address on the credit cards.
Work was busy. A cow-orker loaned me two machines which were set up for a series of complicated tests I had on my plate, and I plodded through those. Left one running overnight which needed more than just a quick "yes, it works".
Went to Sizzler for lunch. Salad bar is good, the dessert choices have expanded too. There was a party of Tongans. Still trying to figure out how four of them fit into a booth.
On the way home from work I stopped at Safeway and poured my coins into the Coinstar machine. They have improved it - it's a lot faster than it was the last time I used it (about 6 months ago) and the coin feed didn't jam on me. Mostly pennies, nickels and dimes, but some quarters. $43 onto my Starbucks card. If you ask for cash, they charge a fee, and the other options were places I don't shop, and Amazon, which I did not want to share my info about.
Heard at work when Steve Jobs died. He was definitely someone who changed the world. He was Apple's Bill Gates (and Woz was their Paul Allen). The buzz around the office, after the obvious "he died too young" and "so sad for his family" was "when you have more money than you can count, why keep working?"
Plans for tomorrow:
Pack up the kitchen.
Pack up what can be packed in the downstairs closet (the movers won't take laundry or cleaning liquids).
Consider packing up the old family photos. I did that once to move them from Seattle, don't know why I want the movers to do it.
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