Woah, it’s almost the end of another decade!
I just realized that with 2009, we’re ending the first decade of the 2000s. It seems like yesterday that everyone was freaking out about Y2K. Time passes too quickly…
We made it to Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon. My Memphis-related allergies weren’t nearly as bad as Teresa’s and were gone soon after leaving the state. Teresa’s still having a hard time with her’s. She was up and around for most of the day, and we were able to go grocery shopping to replenish our kitchen since we pretty much emptied the refrigerator before we left town. Teresa made “Taco Soup” for dinner with a brocolli-cornbread. They’re both things we had at my Mom’s, and Teresa’s versions were great! I’d say they were even better because the soup wasn’t as spicy. The Taco soup is like Chili in taste, but it’s thinner, has taco seasoning, and doesn’t have Chili beans in it.
Today I took the Christmas tree down. I don’t know if I’ve ever taken it down this early in all the year’s I’ve lived on my own. It was a pain to stuff back in the box, and I might have hurt my back again in the process, but it’s done. I miss my little 5 foot tree we had in Memphis. This 7.5 foot one is almost impossible to put up and take down on my own. It’s done though, and now we can finally get the dining room the way Teresa wants it. Before we left we got a buffet from Ikea to go with our new table and chairs (also from Ikea), and it’ll be good to finally have everything where it needs to go.
Other than the tree, I spent the day reinstalling Windows on the old laptop we have hooked up to our TV. I mainly use it for TWiT Live (or did while I was unemployed), but also use it for watching the Memphis Tigers play when they’re not on national TV. We left a Slingbox at my Dad’s before we moved up here and use that or CSTV…er CBS College Sports’ All-Access service to watch the video on TV. The quality isn’t the best, but I take what I can get. Anyway, I was reinstalling Windows on it and just barely made tipoff of tonight’s decimation of Lamar over the SlingBox.
Tomorrow’s my last day of unemployment! I’m excited and scared all at the same time. I’ve got a general idea of what I’m going to be doing, but it’s never exactly what is presented in the interview. It’s going to be good to be working again though. I’ve been going stir crazy. That might be one of the reasons I’ve reinstalled Windows on that laptop. I’ve been working almost 100% on my Mac since we moved, and I need to get back into the Windows world. I haven’t been completely without Windows, as my Apple TV syncs with a Windows PC, but it hasn’t been a major part of my life for about 3 months. It’s been refreshing, and I no longer feel burnt out and look forward to working with Windows again. Maybe after I have had a few paychecks I can start building a new PC to replace Teresa’s computer that is almost 8 years old. I want a good gaming PC, and with Diablo 3 coming out I think I can convince her it’s needed.
