2 Bit Hacker

Just writing this before I shut down my computer in order to get my desk cleared off for the move tomorrow. Most likely I won’t have cable back in the new apartment for a few days. It’s strange moving out of here. In some ways, the year that I’ve lived here seemed to just fly by, and in others it seems like I’ve been here forever. I moved here from the hellhole in Lyndeborough to be with my wonderful girlfriend Andrea, now I move out to live alone for the first time, no family, no roommates, no girlfriend. I can’t say I’m really looking forward to it too much.

As I’m packing up my things, a lot of memories come back to me, mostly of the times I spent with Andrea here, of the times Jason and Matt visited, of my 21st birthday party. These also make me feel alone, since everyone lives so far away now, Jason off in Indiana, Matt in Georgia, Dave in Rochester. Andrea lives just the other side of town, but she’s too busy with school to call or spend time with. I have happy memories, and yet they make me sad.

I must look up and forward though. The new apartment is nice. It’s a good deal smaller than this one. I have plans in my mind to build my HTPC and have it serve as a home automation controller as well. I want to get all X-10 controlled lights, and connect the TV in the bedroom to the main entertainment center. It should keep me busy on weekends, at least.

Also, I’m planning a trip down to Georgia to visit Matt and his fiancé during their spring break. That’s in the middle of March. Another good road trip in the Focus, more time to wardrive and attempt to navigate by GPS. I havn’t been to Georgia since I lived there all those years ago. Should be fun, at least a chance to get out of here for a bit.

Ah well, off I go to pack up more stuff. I should have done this earlier in the week, but with my cold/flu thing, I havn’t really been feeling up to doing much of anything.

Well, I finally got around to switching over my personal journal to MovableType. I plan on keeping my LiveJournal going too, eventually with an automatic crossposting script. LJ was just getting too slow and had too many outages, making if fairly annoying. This should work out better.

I’ve imported all my old LiveJournal posts into MT, though I lost all the comments in doing so, since LJ has no export mechanism for comments. I may write a script later to harvest them and import them, but I’m not sure it’s worth it.

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Ugh, for the past few days, since Friday, I’ve had an annoying cold/flu thing. It started with just feeling tired, then started to have a fever, then led to feeling weak all weekend, then just turned into coughing and sore throat on Tuesday. Wednesday it decided to drop the sore throat and just go for annoying coughs, which are still with me. I hope this gets over soon, I’m getting tired of it.

Finally heard back from Colonial Village about the other apartment. They approved my application, and I’m meeting with them tomorrow morning to sign the lease and have my official move-in. Dave’s going to be helping me move most of my big furniture on Saturday, and I’ll be getting the rest of my stuff over the weekend and picked up the last odd picks over next week. The new place is a one-bedroom unit in the next building over, so moving isn’t too bad.

In other news, Matt proposed to his gf Lauren earlier this week. Apparently the wedding is kindof planed for sometime around November, maybe. Congratulations to the both of them.