So we have arrived in Houston, and have the key to the house. Not quite the Ritz, but better than the last one, with a few minor exceptions. Power is hooked up tomorrow, gas on Thursday, water/sewer/garbage is already on, cable/phone/internet is up next week. Moving van dropped off tomorrow, movers to carry stuff upstairs (Yes, I'm a lazy bastard, ( Read more... )

In the last 36 hours, we have packed and loaded, or chucked, a considerable amount of crap. But I managed to fit a three bedroom house worth of stuff into 11 linear feet of a standard tractor-trailer ( Read more... )

So I've never been one to have a martyr complex, at least I don't think so. So I don't think this will be a problem. But still ( Read more... )

Tonight is my last night at Intel. So I find humor in the message that popped up on screen this morning when I logged into the computer at work for passdown....


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So as some of you may notice, I've finally gotten around to picking a new username. I've been out of the Navy for four years now, and navyreddmann just didn't fit. So now I'm texas_reddmann, and I went ahead and upgraded account and all. The old name links to the new one, and the new one shows up on all my old comments and posts, which is helpful, I guess. I ( Read more... )

So as I sit here at work going through my "to do in a hurry" list, I decided this was a decent time to add a little something about what's going on ( Read more... )

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Glen-Sure, they went out and infected people in another country with swine flu to push through a nomination. And we should all wear our foil hats to prevent getting the swine flu ( Read more... )