Off By One

And we’re in.

It’s a pretty flash place.

So, thanks to a great many friends — of whom only two have a web presence, and therefore get a web shoutouts — the move went off as close as can be to the ideal “without a hitch” experience.

I would like to formally thank:

Simon Brady Mel Vicki Dad Beau Jerry The D&D Conglomerate Ryan

To the rest of you, thanks for the many offers, some of which had to be turned down due to logistics. Nonetheless, you are welcome in our home any time

We hope to have things squared away by the time I get back from Brazil yet again, and after that we’ll talk housewarming.

Wow, am I lazy.

I mean, I can chalk it up to being a bit hung over, what with Brady and Mel not leaving til 4 AM this morning, but waking up at noon and realizing that I really don’t have time to go out, jump, and get home…

Bleargh.

I wish I had been a bit wiser, that’s all.

Had a great time with Eric and company at his bachelor party last night. This one won’t win any awards for hardcore crazy times, but that’s more my speed anyway. The entertainments included political snarkery, literary pretensions, laser tag, and Dragonball on the Wii. All of these things are good fun, and really, what would life be like without them?

I did, however, oversleep a bit this morning. I blame the fact that I’ve not topped 6 hours of sleep in any night for around a month, which is probably not doing my body any good whatsoever.

In other news, Mother’s day is coming, and I’m pretty stoked: I remembered!

I think the conspiracy yesterday was to make me actually feel old, by working me over body and mind, so that today I wake up tired, with a sore back and stiff limbs.

I love you all

Squash is responsible for a sore forearm and back, biking for sore legs, and disc golf for a sore shoulder. My mind is awash with details I never knew about good friends and family, which is great — I’m going to get Char to forward me the emails that she assembled into the fantastic party game that we played, and I intend to read over them all.

Thank you all so very much, those of you who were able to come out last night. I had a great time, and it was arguably the best birthday e-var!1!!bang

Oh, man, it’s been a while.

Yeah, I’m still here.

I’ve been working on school a lot, and work — I’m pretty stressed these days, and my time is at a premium, so I haven’t been writing as often as I want to. I’ll try to remedy that, but this won’t be the post that does

To all of my assorted friends, book time while you can!

It’s been, and will be, an interesting couple of weeks. I’m creating some genuinely nifty things at work these days, and I’m going to be assembling interesting code for school.

The former has been an introduction to the general concepts of LDAP; I’ve had to get at least a bit familiar with it in order to put together a critical piece of functionality for our client. The latter, well, I took the hard part of the project, as is my wont, and it’s been nifty, getting it all working.

So, there’s that.

Plus papers..

Plus presentations…

Plus finals, upcoming…

Mind you, none of this is on the scale of Simon’s workload. Congrats on the thesis presentation!

Well…

I just learned how to pack a parachute.

I’ve jumped from a plane twice in the last five days (yeah, not too much).

I’m turning in my second assignment of the school year.

I’ve survived my first ever round of layoffs.

I’ve got to start my project work.

I’m laying on a couch typing this.

I’m going to eat chili this weekend in the company of geeks.

I’m going to miss Char while she’s away this week.

I ate a lot of turkey last night.

I wish I was working full time.

This week has been pretty stressful all around, but in the last few days, thanks in no small part to Char, I’ve been feeling more relaxed. We’ve been a bit tense, but it’s… nicer. And I’m feeling better about life as a whole than I have for a long while.

I’m trying to do more work around the house, partly because Char’s taking a class plus working full time… well, she was working full time. She goes back to her sane schedule this coming week, which will mean I’ll get to see more of her. The other reason I want to do more around the house is simple: I’ve had it pretty good for a long time, but as long as Char’s working to pay for our lifestyle there’s no reason she should have to carry the housework load. I acknowledge that there’s always going to be a gap, because there are things that I care about that she does not, and vice versa, but I’m trying to narrow it down some.

In other news, I have a reasonable hope that I’ll be getting jump number 22 in tomorrow, weather permitting… which it seems not to be. Damn.

We’ll see.

Well, no news on the legal rights front — my queries to Ask.Metafilter went well-answered, but the message I sent to the CCLA didn’t get me any response, so I’ll be sending something again, in the hopes that someone there will answer.

Not a lot new — getting ready to end the internship, mainly, and return to the academic life, poverty and all. I’ll be part time anyway, but it’ll be interesting, being back on the grind.

Saw Valerie for lunch today, she’s in town only briefly for the Folk Festival, and then she’s off to Sechelt, near my cousins’ place, where she has a short-term teaching position. All over the place, she is. I miss having her around for epic theological debates, but life moves us all, I suppose.

How’s everyone else? Anyone care to touch base, let me know what’s going on in your lives?