my original plans for this evening were to come home from work, take a short nap, wake up and work on a presentation for work a bit and then order pizza, open a bottle of wine and settle in on the couch with a movie or two.

instead, my evening turned out nothing to the sort and yet it wasn’t any more or less exciting.

upon arriving home i performed my daily ritual of putting on my lounging shorts and settling onto the couch to watch my evening news with brian williams and then an episode of arrested development (i literally do this every weekday and a day doesn’t seem right without this ritual). i opened up my computer and waited for the Internet connection to kick in. nothing loaded and immediately I started to panic. I turned on the tv only to be greeted by a blank screen. apparently my cable tv and Internet decided to stop working sometime between the hours of 1p and 530p. I called comcast and of course I seem to be the only one with a reported outage in the area and of course they can’t get anyone out here tomorrow. instead I have to take off sometime next week for them to come fix it. erg. this will mark the third time they have been out here this month and the second time I will have had to take time off from work. now the big problem is rearranging my work schedule to get the cable fixed. next week couldn’t be a worse week to have thus come up as it is already a four day week but I can’t wait until Friday to get this fixed.

so of course this happens the next day after I have received my fixed computer back from apple. while it has been great to have my computer back, especially since they fixed the DVD drive too which I hadn’t realized was even broken, I have quickly realized that the computer is useless without an Internet connection.

so back to my story … so I end up watching my arrested development episode instead that was recorded in the morning but without the Interwebs to simultaneously peruse, I decide I am better off napping. So I head to my bedroom to nap and then I hear my phone ping as someone was messaging me. Of course it was people I wanted to chat with so I delayed the nap. Eventually I ended up back in the living room watching TiVo.

All of a sudden at about 11p I hear a funny noise coming from the kitchen/bathroom area. I think nothing of it until it gets worse and i finally go check it out. Water is pouring down through the doorway. When the building manager gets here we go upstairs and into my neighbor’s apartment only to discover it is actually coming from above him. Turns out the guy on the third floor let his bathtub overflow. He must have fallen asleep or something in there because there was so much freaking water that made it’s way down to my floor. So at this point the evening has already been a bummer but to cap it all off the building manager felt it necessary to tell me he story of how he had experience with incidents like this because one time in another building he was the one to discover a dead body in an over flowing bathtub.

Seriously, what is up with all my bad karma over the last two weeks? If it isn’t one thing it is another it seems.

And that has been my thrilling evening. All night I have held out hope that the cable is going to magically start working so that I can have some entertainment. That would make me so happy at this point in time, but instead I suppose I shall settle for sleepiness. And that ladies and gentlemen is the story of my thrilling Friday evening.

apple and i have a love-hate relationship. i love it, it hates me. today i went to restart my computer and when it went to come back on, nothing but a blank screen. after some troubleshooting it has become evident that the graphics card has died. i will now have to take it in to be confirmed and hopefully fixed. so very annoying.

i just don’t seem to have good luck with apple products. keep in mind that this macbook pro is a replacement for the one that just stopped working one day and they could never figure out why.

i guess i’m without that computer for a few days. luckily i have my (now outdated) iPhone and my work computer. i suppose they will have to hold me over until the mac gets fixed. blerg.

i am not going to lie … this weather reminds me why I left texas. i know it is only mid-80s (compared to texas’ upper-90s) but still, i would take a cold, snowy day over this any day. i lie. the only reason i am bitching is because i don’t have central ac and it isn’t very comfortable in the apartment right now.

i have my air conditioner from the old place but the problem is that it is an energy hog. you can’t put much else on the same circuit without ending up with an overloaded circuit. that has presented problems at the moment due to the layout of the apartment and the circuit overlays. i am going to have to move tons of furniture around to try and balance the electricity load across all of the circuits. after that dillema is solved, that still leaves me with the next dillema of needing another air conditioner for my room (or vice versa, the living room). then there’s the second bedroom although that won’t be a priority to deal with until the parents come visit. a place with central air would have been so much easier. i have central heat but no ac. that just seems silly to me.

darn, isn’t my life just the most exciting thing ever? blerg.

one of the last things i do every morning is to put my ring on the ring finger on my right hand. if the ring ends up fitting tightly i know i didn’t eat very well the previous day. i had been doing quite well this week, until today that is. i met up with sarah for drinks this evening and before i knew it i had consumed a margarita and greasy mexican food. the ring won’t be fitting the hand very well tomorrow. nevertheless, it goes without saying that me beginning my wii fit regimen has been moved to later this weekend when there isn’t a pound of melted cheese in my stomach.

in other news, i am happy to report that last night as i was going to bed at about 11pm i suddenly got productive and was able to unpack two more boxes. at this rate i’ll be done before thanksgiving!

okay. this double chin and extra fat has got to go. starting tomorrow i will start to get very serious about the wii fit. i’m trying to eat better and slowly getting there. still much progress to be made. once i reset my stats on wii fit tomorrow i’ll start some online tracking, all i know is that my goal is to lose like 20lbs. good times.

i need serious motivation to help push this unpacking along. i did absolutely nothing on saturday and ended up unpacking about three containers (but not full ones, just half of six different ones). i am setting a goal for myself to have this done in the next 10 days. the new apartment is comfortable but taking some adjusting. it’s more vintage than the last place but still in pretty good condition, i just need to get stuff unpacked so that it really feels like home. it’s fairly quiet here except for the fact that apparently damen is a route for semi-trucks to go through during the day and the fact that the lady and kids across the hall from me are obnoxiously loud. i’m curious to find out who else lives in the building.

so far this summer hasn’t been too exciting (granted it’s not officially summer yet). the weather has sort of sucked. i’m almost certain that it hasn’t been warmer than 75 more than one day this year. i suppose i should start taking advantage of the decent weather while it is here. it will be cold and snowy again before we know it. muwhahahaha.

that’s all for now.

so you would think a move down the street, literally only 3.5 blocks away, would be easier than this one was. going into the move i was convinced that it would only take about 2-3 hours to make the move over to the new place. yeah, not so much. it ended up taking a good 7 hours to get everything cleared out of the old place and into the new one. last time i moved i didn’t have much furniture since i had roommates previously. what a pain in the ass. trying to get the couch in through the back door was a task unlike any other.

i’m slowly adjusting to the new place and taking my sweet time unpacking. didn’t realize how much crap i have. instead of boxes i used tons of those plastic containers. it took like 15-20 of them and now they’re scattered throughout the house. i estimate at the rate i’m going that i should be done by the end of june or so.

comcast came and installed on wednesday and it only took four days for them to get everything working. the one thing i am impressed is that these old coax wires coming in from outside can handle everything (4 HD Streams + 1 SD Streams + Cable Internet). one HUGE complaint is that the HD box that they provided me only connects to the TV with component cables. horrible picture quality vs. HDMI. i never thought the difference would be so glaring.

to top everything off, thursday was the dreaded layoffs day at work. i was lucky enough to be safe this time around which i am quite grateful for. i will however, be using this as an opportunity to try and get more interactive responsibilities put on my desk.

now that the move & everything at work have passed i am hoping the anxiety attacks start to slow down. i woke up from my nap this afternoon and was freaking out. attacks coming out of sleep are the worst.

and now i’m off to go do some more unpacking. until later.

so after all that drama i am relieved that i’ve finally found a new place to live. of course living with joe would be preferable but since he lives almost in India (indiana, but whatever … that’s how close india and indiana are from each other, it’s just a difference of an a!), that just isn’t practical at the moment. after extensive searching i ended up finding a place right down the street from me. literally. i’m only moving 4.5 blocks west. it will be rather exciting. the new place has an extra room that i have no idea what i’m going to do with.

now that i’ve started packing i’ve come to realize that i think i have completely underestimated how much crap i have. i thought i got rid of tons of it but the plastic containers that i bought to move with are filling up much faster than expected. oops.

this week has been television upfront week and i am rather unexcited about it. i was so looking forward to it but have been a bit disappointed. abc showed the pilot to one of their new comedies, modern family, and that looks like an awesome show. definitely will be something to look forward to. i look forward to watching the rest of the pilots over the next few weeks to see what else seems decent.

more soon.

so it’s now less than three weeks before i have to move and i still haven’t found a place to live. i don’t think i’ve ever waited this long and it’s starting to make me really nervous. Luckily I’m hoping that once I do find a new place it will be an easy move. I’m using tons of plastic bins instead of regular boxes this time and it should go rather smoothly.

may is always such a stressful time. with everything going on at work and trying to find a new place to live and a million other things, it’s just a bit crazy. i so look forward to june coming along and getting to rest easy.

i’m in the middle of watching the day the earth stood still and i don’t know how i feel about it. this remake is rather strange. totally not what i was expecting.

that’s all for now. more later.

softball season is in full swing and it has made me realize just how out of shape i am. i didn’t even do much today during the game but play catcher and just the squatting and standing tired me out. lame sauce. i must say though that i missed playing softball more than i had expected.

now that may has arrived i need to kick up the apartment search a bit. i’m approaching the situation with caution though. i’m afraid to sign a new lease and then end up with no way to pay the rent. i have no idea what i would do then. i am starting to get really paranoid and i suppose i would need to plan some strategic back-up plans should that happen.

okay i have decided that i need to resolve to start using the iphone app for updating this site because i can’t remember what to say. so that’s all for now.