Life: The Whirlwind

It's nice to have Aerin back from China. I think we're both glad to have someone there to lean on as the whirlwind surrounds us with new challenges.

The short version is that the landlord's of our new place have had a right crappy job done in the building of their new house. This means if they move in it stays screwed up. If they don't they are in a position to actually get things fixed. So now we wait to see if things are moving ahead or not with the move this weekend.

On the plus side our current apartment isn't rented out yet, and the Happy Guys (as we like to call them) are willing to put it on hold until we know what's happening exactly - which is tonight. We can cancel our notice to vacate and give them a new one if need be.

Part of me really wishes we could go ahead and move this weekend while the weather is decent, but at the same time I don't want Raj and Monica moving into a home they are not happy with. Either way we will get moved into the new place, and I'll be more than happy to have it done when it happens. I just hope that it won't be -20C if we have to attempt this again the end of Novemeber.

Life: The Bachelor, Week 1.4

Well I can say that it really blows that Aerin is still away. I think I would be much happier if it had only been a week, but two weeks is getting to be a really long time. I'm pretty sure I'm suffering withdrawl from the lack of hugs and kisses. A large dose of chocolate chip cookies can only take you so far.

Last Sunday was the Gear Swap at the MEC store. I didn't get rid of everything I took, but I got rid of most of it and made $260 in the process. I really would have liked to have sold my Salomon light mountaineering/heavy backpacking boots since they don't fit anymore. I certainly didn't get many miles on them before I needed a larger size. Oh well. I hardly splurged either since I got groceries and some salad rolls from the nearby Vietnamese place and still had plenty left over for the coming weekend. Of course there is more gear in the future, but not yet.

What else...

More packing is complete, but still plenty to go. More empty boxes will no doubt return with us from Edmonton this weekend. I really don't want to bring back anything else that I will have to just move again in a few weeks.

I had a great visit with Raj (our soon to be new landlord) on Sunday afternoon. It's really great to be forming this new relationship, and I really look forward to living in a great new place too.

I've started to do some work on another Flames of War writing project. This will be a joint venture with another Calgary player. I've also dusted off some files of mine for converting some old pulp science miniatures into Flames of War.

I'm having dinner with Mike and Angela and the twins tomorrow evening. No doubt Aerin will be thrilled with the opportunity to house sit a little since it usually involves a nice soak a much larger tub.

Time to get some food before class and finish up a couple other things.

I hope you enjoy the Thanksgiving Weekend if you're in Canada.

Life: The Bachelor, Week 0.75

I dropped off Aerin at the airport on Saturday for her trip to China, and then I was alone...

Saturday was busy with a few different things. I visited the TrepanierBaer gallery to view an exhibit by Vicky Alexander as part of homework for my History of Design continuing ed course. I tried to sell some of my extra books at the used book store, but only got rid of half of them and only paid for the gas I used that day. I got a new appointment setup for exchanging the very tall box spring on the new bed with a low profile version. A quick stop at Rona to get some glue that actually works for a miniature terrain project I'm working on. And then it was home.

At home I ripped more of our CD collection to MP3. Put some paint on a bunch of my Soviet T-34s, and generally tidied up the place of my general mess. And then there was getting ready to demo Flames of War at The Sentry Box the next day.

Sunday I didn't sleep in all that much unfortunately. I went for groceries, but most of the cashiers seemed to be too have overslept or been hungover. There were only about a half dozen actual cashiers, and everyone was lined up a dozen deep to wait for their turn.

The demo at The Sentry Box was fun, yet not one new player showed to try the game. A couple of people I know that play showed up, including one guy from out of town that had won the FallCon tourney the previous weekend.

And the rest of the week since then has been a bit of a whirlwind that I've already mostly forgotten about in attempt to avoid becoming pathetic with my lack of Aerin. Wednesday night was my History of Design class again, and tonight (Thursday) was my class work of visiting Art Central.

And now it's back to Friday and the weekend. Time flies when you're filling time with a long To Do list.