Journal Entry

:: Moved In ::

I'd like to say something positive, having had sad and serious news for the past week. Lisa and I have moved in to our new apartment, and we're enjoying it thoroughly. The neighborhood is so much quieter than our section of Logan Square, which is suiting us perfectly. There are lots of people with dogs, which is not so good for Carly right now, but we hope seeing all these other dogs will help in the desensitization process. The apartment is much bigger; we're having some trouble figuring out how to use the different rooms. The first cut has my desk and drums in their own room (which will also serve as the guest room), which is cool. We'll see how it goes.

The moving itself was relatively painless thanks to the help we had from friends here, and Lisa's parents, who drove into town just to help. Thank you all! U-Haul managed not to screw everything up--they had a truck for us and didn't give it away. The weather was nice, the company was nice, the diner up the street uses real whipped cream in their milkshakes. We'll be fine here, I hope.

We're also trying out new cell phones for a couple days. If you like in Chicago and know anything about US Cellular and want to chime in, please do. I'm pretty pleased so far with the service, and we have about two weeks to cancel or change the plan before we're locked in for two years.

The only thing left is to get internet access working properly. There's someone in our building running a wireless network, but they have it password-protected. Maybe I'll meet them and mooch until our installation finishes.

We'll have more to say about this neighborhood, the apartment, the building, the dog, and everything else. So far things seem fine.

And now, back to Harry Potter.