New Apartment Pictures

Well, they're up and there's a link to the right -->. The place was still a bit of a mess when the pictures were taken, but you all should know that's normal for me anyways. :) In the picture of the outside of the building, I'm on the second floor on the right. Oh, and yes, that is my nifty vespa you noticed in front of the building!

Well, I feel like crap right now, so I'm going to crash and try to sleep through it.

House Warming!

OK, so I've been in the apartment for a couple weeks now, so what? I can still have a "house warming" event! Anyways, this is the first weekend that the place is furnished. So if any of you faithful readers want to drop by and help warm the place, you are more than welcome. That being said, I don't think I'll see any of you because I don't think any of my friends up here in the great Pacific Northwest read/know about my blog. And I don't think any of you will make a "quick trip" from California, or Florida, or Texas, or some random country (Sean and Julia, you out there?) just for the night! :)

I've got alot of work to do before the festivities tonight. Most of my stuff still needs to be unpacked, and then I'll have to clean up all the debris (or at least push it all into a corner).

I don't feel well.

I didn't get much sleep last night. Well, at least tonight is my last night sleeping on a hardwood floor. Yep, the movers show up at 8-9am tomorrow with all my furniture. Yeah, I guess I didn't really mention it again in my blog, but it has taken much longer than a few days for the movers to get my stuff to me. 9 days of hardwood floor so far. Well, I crashed on my friends couch the other nice. heh, best night sleep I'd had in awhile. Of course it helped that I was somewhat inebriated when I fell asleep as well.

Well, my brain is only at half-mast right now, so I'm going to get going, finish my dinner and get some sleep.

Enough of my complaining. Good night all.

Fixed the link to spring break pictures...

...and will hopefully have links up to more pictures soon

Such a small world, and is anything really a coincidence?

Once again, I join you from the depths of perkatory. I was looking for something in my jacket pockets the other day (I can't remember what it was I was initially looking for) and found something I wasn't looking for. I happened upon credit card receipts from perkatory. "So what's the big deal," you ask me. Well, it turns out that the receipts print out Planetary Espresso as the name of the business. Most of you probably don't know, don't remember, or just plain don't care (you can stop reading now) but Planetary Espresso is was the coffee place across the street from my old apartment on Olive Pl. The one that I went to every morning last summer.

So I asked one of the friendly baristas about the receipts. I was told that perkatory recently changed owners, and the new owners used to own a place called Planetary Espresso. Methinks this doesn't bode well for perkatory. You see, Planetary Espresso was originally owned by a guy named Kevin (while I went to it) but recently changed ownership shortly after I left Seattle. The new owners got rid of all the old employees, all the regulars stopped showing up, and the place eventually went under. <Toast>Here's to hoping the same thing doesn't happen here.</Toast> Maybe they've learned their lesson?

First Hill

So it seems that my apartment is in First Hill, not Capitol Hill. Or maybe even the top of the Central District? Who knows where the borders of the neighborhoods exactly are. I've moved most of the stuff from my temp. housing to my apartment. One more trip and it will all be done. Then I need to contact the movers to get all my crap out of storage. Since it'll probably take a few days to get that arranged, I'll probably be sleeping on a hardwood floor for a few days. :)

I'm currently sitting in a coffee house a couple blocks from my apartment called perkatory enjoying a cappuccino and free wi-fi. I've taken advantage of the internet connectivity to use the King County Metro trip planner. So it turns out that I'll probably be able to get by without a car for awhile. I can catch a bus right outside my apartment, make one transfer and be at work in about 45 minutes. Good reading time! I can also take the bus from work to the doctors and back to Seattle (I've got 3 appointments this coming week for massage and chiropractic adjustment).

Hopefully I'll have all my furniture and have the apartment in some semblance of sanity by this coming weekend. I figure that's when I'll have my house-warming. It would do no good to not have places or room for people to plop themselves, now would it? So who's going to come in from out of town to help me warm my house? ;)

Long Labor Day Weekend

So it's Sunday the 5th of September. Bumbershoot weekend in Seattle. This weekend was/is dedicated to finding an apartment and having fun! So far, I've been succesful at both goals!

I put a deposit on an apartment yesterday. It is a 1+ bedroom on 17th street in Capitol Hill. It's a decent sized place, which is nice (approx. 800 s.f.). Hard wood floors are being refinished this week, linoleum in kitchen is being replaced and it is being painted. I should be moving in next weekend, which is just in time. :) My temp housing assignment expires next Sunday @ 11am, so I need to be out of the place by then. This also means that I will probably be buying some kind of a car in the next week or so as well. Man, the money is already flying out of the bank account.

So, on to the fun! Friday night, I caught Death Cab for Cutie, the Presidents of the United States of America, and United State of Electronica at Bumbershoot. Yesterday, I saw the Black Keys, Pedro the Lion, part of Drive-By Truckers, part of Face to Face and some other bands I didn't know the name of. I was thoroughly dissapointed with both the black keys and drive-by truckers. Oh well. Today I plan on catching at least These Arms are Snakes and Cobra High. Tomorrow! Oh tomorrow! Toots and the Maytals, the Pixies, Built to Spill, the Killers, maybe Harvey Danger, who knows what else.

Well, I've got to go get started on having fun for the day. bye.