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Moved in, time to unpack

Moving day #1 went off pretty well yesterday, with only a brief interruption by rain towards the end of the unloading at the house.

Got up early, brought the dogs and a few more things to the house, then off to get the truck rental from Home Depot. Got pretty much everything from the apartment loaded up into the truck. Towards the end, I was a little worried we were going to run out of room, but everything that needed to go managed to get onto the truck.

There are still a few odds and ends at the apartment, but those can all be loaded into the cars over the next few days.

Now the process of unpacking begins. Lots to do to get the shack and office set up.

In two weeks, Moving day #2 to get all the stuff from the storage unit to the house.

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Count down to moving day

All the painting is done at the house, the second bathroom is all filled in and patched up, and next weekend we’ll finally be moving out of the apartment and into the house.

This past week we’ve been bringing a few things up to the house a car load at a time and working on getting the house ready for moving day. I did the epoxy paint thing to the garage floor today (managed to finish up just as the rain from Tropical Storm Bonnie arrived) and installed the last of the ceiling fans today (four total).

After giving the garage floor a few days to cure, we can start moving things back into the garage.

One fun thing we did to the kitchen island was cover it with chalkboard paint.

Looking forward to getting settled into the house finally.

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New mouse

The Logitech MX1100 mouse I had started behaving unreliably on most surfaces, and would only reliably track on the vertical side of the computer case for some reason.

I decided since I had just replaced the keyboard, why not the mouse too.

I wanted something with a similar shape and weight as the MX1100 and ended up going with another Logitech mouse, the MX Master. It’s a wireless mouse that can connect using Logitech’s Unifying receiver (one of those tiny USB dongles) or via Bluetooth.

It looks similar to the MX1100, with a few changes to the buttons and scroll wheels. The top scroll wheel no longer tilts to the left or right. The tilting has been replaced with a thumb scroll wheel. The two forward/back thumb buttons are arranged behind the scroll wheel and the hidden thumb rest button is gone. I find the two forward/back buttons are somewhat awkwardly placed, and aren’t as convenient or easy to press as the MX1100 buttons were.

The battery is built into the mouse instead of the replaceable AA battery in the MX1100. A microUSB port at the front of the mouse allows for charging (charge level is indicated by three lights near the thumb rest of the mouse).

One interesting feature is that apparently the mouse can be used with three separate computers through the Logitech Unifying receiver. This isn’t something I can test out though.

So far the feel of the MX Master is similar to the MX1100 that I’m used to and is pretty comfortable to use. Should be a good mouse to use. Now to get all the buttons set up and usable in Fedora.

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Three years

She’sHe not really dead. As long as we remember herhim.
– McCoy, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

There’s a lot of wisdom collected in Star Trek.

It’s been three years since Theresa died. A lot has happened in the past three years, but she’s never been very far from my thoughts.

The hops tower is on the way to my office, and I usually stop to see how the hops are doing. It hasn’t sprouted any hops flowers since the first year, but the hops continue to grow. One of my projects is to figure out how to assemble the hops tower photos I took from the past year into a time lapse movie.

The memories I have will stay with me, and as long as they do, a part of her will still be around.

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Bought a house! (Again)

We closed on the house today! Now we’re home owners again!

Our house!
Our house!

Side and back yard
Side and back yard

Apparently, this is the day when I buy houses. 11 years ago today is when I closed on the old house.

We won’t be moving in right away. First we’re having most of the house painted starting with the laundry room. As more of the house gets painted, we’ll move a few things in a bit at a time.

First big moving day will be June 5. We’ll rent a moving truck, load it up with apartment stuff, a few things from the storage unit, and get it all moved into the house. Hopefully by then we’ll be able to have the fence installed (or at least approved by the HOA)

The next big moving day to empty out the storage unit will follow a few weeks later, but definitely before Labour Day weekend.

Looking between the neighbours’ houses offers a pretty nice view of the field next to the development. Hopefully it stays that way for a while. There are some nice sized trees that look like they’d make good antenna supports for some portable field ops. Who knows though.

Nice view between our neighbours
Nice view between our neighbours