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The new Casa Chaos is coming together nicely.
We have a lot of unpacking done, but still have a lot more to do. Most notably all of my books still need to be unpacked. In this house I actually have a legit place for many of them: we had book shelves built in to the alcove in the great room. They should soak up the majority of my books. I am excite.
I've really been enjoying my grill too. For the last four years I haven't been allowed to have a grill (it's against the law to have gas or charcoal grills in apartments in much of California) and now I can. This evening I grilled up zucchini and asparagus (brushed with ghee and chopped garlic) and ginormous steelhead trout fillets from Costco. Those I put a nice barbecue-ish rub on (brown sugar, black pepper, coriander, garlic powder and onion powder) and cooked over pecan. They were very nice.
A friend/coworker was in a terrible motorcycle accident a couple of weeks ago. He's been in a coma, and while he's getting more and more responsive I'm still super worried about him.
We met one of our neighbors finally. Very nice straight couple with an adorable pit bull. They have like 18 cars. (This is an exaggeration. They have two cars. Also a pickup, a van, and an RV.) This isn't unusual in our neighborhood, I am coming to learn; every house around here seems to have 3+ cars.
I still haven't been able to successfully make friends with the extraordinarily talkative dog behind us. I think I've seen him and his owner out for walks. He looks like a wookie (the dog, not his owner) so I've taken to calling him "Chewwie." This has not endeared myself to him, and he spends a lot of time barking and growling at me. The problem is made worse by the fact that we can't actually see each other, due to the seven-foot privacy fence between properties. I should just go over and introduce myself and maybe take him for a walk. (Again the dog, not his owner.)
We're having all brand new windows installed on Monday. At some point the electrician will be out to both add a 240v outlet in the garage so we can hook up our shiny new dryer. He's also going to run cat5 outlets throughout the house, terminating all of them in a closet where he's also going to add an electrical outlet. I already had the cable dude run a live cable to the same closet, so once the ethernet is in place I'll be able to move the cable modem in there, install a network switch, and we'll have good networking throughout the house. (Though to be honest the OnHub is so good I don't really need ethernet, but it will be good to have anyway.)
In other news, my doctor said my blood sugar was doing so good he said I could try stopping the Metformin entirely to see how I did. I told him I'm pretty sure I'm not quite fit enough for that yet, and plus the holidays are coming up. So we agreed to do it after the first of the year.
So yeah, everything's moving along.
We have a lot of unpacking done, but still have a lot more to do. Most notably all of my books still need to be unpacked. In this house I actually have a legit place for many of them: we had book shelves built in to the alcove in the great room. They should soak up the majority of my books. I am excite.
I've really been enjoying my grill too. For the last four years I haven't been allowed to have a grill (it's against the law to have gas or charcoal grills in apartments in much of California) and now I can. This evening I grilled up zucchini and asparagus (brushed with ghee and chopped garlic) and ginormous steelhead trout fillets from Costco. Those I put a nice barbecue-ish rub on (brown sugar, black pepper, coriander, garlic powder and onion powder) and cooked over pecan. They were very nice.
A friend/coworker was in a terrible motorcycle accident a couple of weeks ago. He's been in a coma, and while he's getting more and more responsive I'm still super worried about him.
We met one of our neighbors finally. Very nice straight couple with an adorable pit bull. They have like 18 cars. (This is an exaggeration. They have two cars. Also a pickup, a van, and an RV.) This isn't unusual in our neighborhood, I am coming to learn; every house around here seems to have 3+ cars.
I still haven't been able to successfully make friends with the extraordinarily talkative dog behind us. I think I've seen him and his owner out for walks. He looks like a wookie (the dog, not his owner) so I've taken to calling him "Chewwie." This has not endeared myself to him, and he spends a lot of time barking and growling at me. The problem is made worse by the fact that we can't actually see each other, due to the seven-foot privacy fence between properties. I should just go over and introduce myself and maybe take him for a walk. (Again the dog, not his owner.)
We're having all brand new windows installed on Monday. At some point the electrician will be out to both add a 240v outlet in the garage so we can hook up our shiny new dryer. He's also going to run cat5 outlets throughout the house, terminating all of them in a closet where he's also going to add an electrical outlet. I already had the cable dude run a live cable to the same closet, so once the ethernet is in place I'll be able to move the cable modem in there, install a network switch, and we'll have good networking throughout the house. (Though to be honest the OnHub is so good I don't really need ethernet, but it will be good to have anyway.)
In other news, my doctor said my blood sugar was doing so good he said I could try stopping the Metformin entirely to see how I did. I told him I'm pretty sure I'm not quite fit enough for that yet, and plus the holidays are coming up. So we agreed to do it after the first of the year.
So yeah, everything's moving along.