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General Update
Jul. 3rd, 2017 03:26 pmDanae is home from school and brought chimken nuggers with her! Yay! *tailwags* Doggos love chimken nuggers.
I drove up to Kenosha after work on Saturday to visit my family and pick up my loft bed. Erik bought it from me after I'd been half-heartedly trying to find a buyer for a few years, so I had to bid it a fond farewell. I'd like to have one again if I have room someday. I like climbing around on things; might as well be able to do it at home too!
Sunday morning I drove out to Elgin and helped unload and assemble the bed in Erik's new place. It's a cozy, turn-of-the century place; I like it. I met a friend of his who was there to help get data service set up. Since the former occupants had decided cutting wires was a much better idea than actually unplugging things, there was a bit of work to be done.
Since Danae was out at a LARP Saturday evening, I took Piper with me through the whole trip so she could get her food and insulin on time. As usual, it was impossible to get her to interact with my parents' dog, Wonka, without becoming a snarling ball of fury. She's been like that with just about every dog she's met since her surgery.
Which is why I was shocked when, with a little soothing and encouragement to both dogs, she and Erik's dog, Fluffly, behaved very nicely together! I took a few pictures and videos of the two of them; without them, I think it would have been hard for Danae to believe! I hope we can set up more play-dates for them, because she really needs more dog socialization if we can possibly provide it.
What else? I'm cleaning up the condo so we can show it to a new potential housemate. I like him quite a lot from his introductory email; if he's as compatible in person as he is in email, I think he'd be a really good fit.
And I'm back to digitizing Lisa's records. I'm kind of hoping to finish them and get them back to her so the crate's out of the living room (and so she can listen to her music again of course!) and possibly have room for a cabinet for audio gear. I ended up leaving my Marantz receiver in Kenosha because I just couldn't think where I'd put it right now! For the meantime, I'll live with running my Klipsches with my curb-found Sony surround sound receiver. In a way, that's kind of cool because I'll get a really good sense of that sound before I hook them up to a vintage analog unit to compare.
I helped Tim get my old speakers out of his room and into the spot that the disassembled loft bed had been in. He had my soundsystem set up in there, and is glad to have more room. I helped rearrange the shelves the stereo was sitting on so he can put his computer there on the wall; it worked out pretty well.
It was good to see family. It'd been a few weeks and I miss them. Tim said he'd be down here more often, but train tickets are pricy. Now that I have a job though, I'm happy to pay his fare once in a while; we may get together this week to watch SGDQ on the couch here and play games!
I drove up to Kenosha after work on Saturday to visit my family and pick up my loft bed. Erik bought it from me after I'd been half-heartedly trying to find a buyer for a few years, so I had to bid it a fond farewell. I'd like to have one again if I have room someday. I like climbing around on things; might as well be able to do it at home too!
Sunday morning I drove out to Elgin and helped unload and assemble the bed in Erik's new place. It's a cozy, turn-of-the century place; I like it. I met a friend of his who was there to help get data service set up. Since the former occupants had decided cutting wires was a much better idea than actually unplugging things, there was a bit of work to be done.
Since Danae was out at a LARP Saturday evening, I took Piper with me through the whole trip so she could get her food and insulin on time. As usual, it was impossible to get her to interact with my parents' dog, Wonka, without becoming a snarling ball of fury. She's been like that with just about every dog she's met since her surgery.
Which is why I was shocked when, with a little soothing and encouragement to both dogs, she and Erik's dog, Fluffly, behaved very nicely together! I took a few pictures and videos of the two of them; without them, I think it would have been hard for Danae to believe! I hope we can set up more play-dates for them, because she really needs more dog socialization if we can possibly provide it.
What else? I'm cleaning up the condo so we can show it to a new potential housemate. I like him quite a lot from his introductory email; if he's as compatible in person as he is in email, I think he'd be a really good fit.
And I'm back to digitizing Lisa's records. I'm kind of hoping to finish them and get them back to her so the crate's out of the living room (and so she can listen to her music again of course!) and possibly have room for a cabinet for audio gear. I ended up leaving my Marantz receiver in Kenosha because I just couldn't think where I'd put it right now! For the meantime, I'll live with running my Klipsches with my curb-found Sony surround sound receiver. In a way, that's kind of cool because I'll get a really good sense of that sound before I hook them up to a vintage analog unit to compare.
I helped Tim get my old speakers out of his room and into the spot that the disassembled loft bed had been in. He had my soundsystem set up in there, and is glad to have more room. I helped rearrange the shelves the stereo was sitting on so he can put his computer there on the wall; it worked out pretty well.
It was good to see family. It'd been a few weeks and I miss them. Tim said he'd be down here more often, but train tickets are pricy. Now that I have a job though, I'm happy to pay his fare once in a while; we may get together this week to watch SGDQ on the couch here and play games!
