Hey! Hi. I'm still alive.
Here's why I haven't been posting, since at least one person has given me shit about it.
• We're moving this weekend.
• We're moving this weekend.
• We're moving this weekend.
But wait! There's more.
We're moving this weekend because we bought this apartment dealie (they call it a condo, but we don't) up on Capitol Hill, which is this ultra-hip neighborhood in Seattle. We moved there because we're ultra-hip and were languishing in an only semi-hip neighborhood. Situation remedied, and now we're homeowner types. Landed gentry. The propertied class.
To boot:
• I was recently elevated to the position of IT Manager at The Stranger, as well as still being in charge of everything related to the web site. Mo' money, mo' problems.
• I got a new bike. It looks like this and I love it and have been sitting on it a lot, both in motion and not. It's fantastic.
• As soon as we're all moved in, we're going to France and Italy for 2 weeks, and we haven't bothered to plan that at all. It seems like it should be fun, but right now, it's just another thing to do.
• I have various looming freelance deadlines which are all occurring at the exact same time as everything above.
PLUS, it's July, and nothing important happens in July. Everybody knows that. Just ask the Bush administration. They've taken advantage of the slow news month by nominating an inscrutable dude to the Supreme Court, which got Karl Rove out of the headlines, and also took the opportunity to rebrand the War on Terror™ as the Global Struggle Against Extremism. Catchy, eh?
I guess War on Terror™ just wasn't getting butts into uniforms and uniforms into Iraq.
So I'll be back when the life tsunami has receded and the destruction has been fully determined and the relief effort is well under way.
Meanwhile, if you live in Seattle and are looking for some nice furniture cheap, like now, please behold my craigslist postings:
• Computer Armoire
• Creamy Couch
• The Big Blue Chair
• Mexican Bookshelf
at August 1, 2005 9:21 AM
