Monthly Archives: July 2011

Happy Anniversary, Gay

July 31, 2011 – UTC

Today is our 7th wedding anniversary. 7 years have passed, just like that. It’s been a good 7 years! I hope there’s many many more. With everything going on lately, we keep forgetting about it and haven’t planned anything to celebrate tonight and didn’t get each other any gifts. Maybe we’ll go out Tuesday night [...]

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Sold the Vashon house

July 29, 2011 – UTC

It took just 78 days to sell the Vashon house. We signed the papers yesterday and it closed today. Gay’s dad and aunt are here visiting so they shared champagne with us to celebrate.

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House visitors

July 28, 2011 – UTC

Gay’s dad and aunt came to stay with us for a couple days after spending a few weeks at our house on Vashon waiting for it to sell. The kids love having Grandpa and Auntie Lillian as a new audience and playmates.

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Eva is 7 months old

July 20, 2011 – UTC

Eva is 7 months old today. She has two teeth now so she’s teething. She is starting to learn to crawl, just barely pulling herself along the floor when she really wants to. She’s now sleeping in her own bedroom and doing a pretty good job, but occasionally ends up in bed with us. She’s still eating [...]

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Spotify!

July 16, 2011 – UTC

Spotify finally came to America and I love it. I’ve had a Rhapsody account for a year or so. I’ve liked Rhapsody for its selection of music, but there’s no native Mac app (just a web player), the iPhone app is marginal and it’s impossible to use your iPhone as a remote control for the [...]

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First week in the new house

July 16, 2011 – UTC

We’ve been living in the week for a week and love it. There’s still people walking around the house painting and doing miscellaneous work (door knobs, steel installations, etc.). We’re also still unpacking and I’m finishing up my A/V setup, which amounts to untangling all the wires by the rack and making them nice and [...]

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Comcast in Seattle

July 11, 2011 – UTC

We got Comcast activated at the new house, comparable upload speed to the house on Vashon Island, but the download speed is about 5-10Mbps faster via Speedtest.net. Nice. The installer wasn’t the most friendly guy in the world, though, which is unusual for Comcast in my experience. He had an easy job: the hole was [...]

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Packing Day

July 6, 2011 – UTC

The movers came today to pack everything into boxes, now our house is full of boxes. Someone else came to disassemble the gym equipment. We had Indian takeout for dinner with the two packing people as our last dinner on our last night on Vashon with a beautiful view of Mt Rainier.

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Move-in week has begun

July 6, 2011 – UTC

They’ve got just a few more days until we move in. Paint touch-up is being done and the painters have begun the exterior trim painting. Kurt and Tim are finishing the base shoe trim on the staircase. Colin framed the theater cabinetry. Erich was cleaning the cross-ties in the attic. Ryan was installing more door [...]

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DirecTV dish installation

July 5, 2011 – UTC

So as not to miss a stage of the Tour de France during our move, I scheduled DirecTV to install the dish at the new house today so Gay and I went over there to meet the installer. We didn’t want the dish to be installed in a place that would be visible from the [...]

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