Filling out the house
News ·Sunday April 23, 2006 @ 15:25 EDT (link)
View from upper deck
We're not particularly happy with Ravenswood at the Park, our old apartments; they hit us with a lot of junk charges on move-out for unnecessary cleaning and so forth. Boo. But at least we're out.
The kind people at MDM finally fixed up our SORBS entry to indicate that this is a static IP, which means that mail to Microsoft (and other systems that bounce mail to users in the Dynamic IP list) will get through now. We also got a lot of piled up old mail inbound, which means some systems are using the Dynamic IP listings to stop sending mail, too. Shame, shame.
I set up my old sound system (Sony DreamSystem) upstairs; the DVD player is dead (despite attempts in Boston to revive it), but the tuner and amp. is fine; we'll get a small CD player and hook it up in a bit.
Our washer and dryer were delivered and hooked up around 1000 Saturday morning. I filled out our rebates (a delivery rebate and two for efficiency). The deliverymen ran a test cycle and Honey did several loads of laundry; the units work very well and are quite quiet.
I went to mow the lawn, after less than stellar results last time (the rechargeable mower, a Black and Decker CMM1000, cut out before I finished), and it wasn't that great this time, either, so we drove into Redmond and picked up a regular electric mower (the Black and Decker MM875), which was much better. I also edged with the Grass Hog we'd bought a few days back, and weeded the back of the garden, with Honey's help.
We picked up a new DVD rack at Circuit City; it's as wide as our other two together and a little higher; we assembled it, and moved all our DVDs over to it, with space to spare. We also picked up the Star Trek movies, I-VI, and Nemesis, First Contact, and Insurrection at a decent discount, although we had to get V from Amazon since they didn't have it.
I took some pictures today, maybe I'll get them up soon. Very sore after yesterday's work. Sausages and coffee for breakfast, and then Raphael calls and says ZorbaTwit is making inane remarks about our new #c++ bot, which I go over and quell. It's a beautiful day again today.
Our washer and dryer were delivered and hooked up around 1000 Saturday morning. I filled out our rebates (a delivery rebate and two for efficiency). The deliverymen ran a test cycle and Honey did several loads of laundry; the units work very well and are quite quiet.