We moved into our new house on December 13th, 2008.  Today, on February 6th I would say that for the first time, I feel “unpacked.”  There are no more rooms with unpacked boxes, ladders, and bundles of “what do we do with this?”  It’s still a long road to making the house into a comfortable home but it’s good to know we’ve made it this far.

We are back from our high seas adventure (read: relaxing cruise in the Carribean) and I had hoped to start processing and posting photos from the excursion. Unfortunately, one of my first accomplishments back at home was to throw the living hell out of my back so that I was screaming in pain for over an hour, and am still bedridden right now. Lovely… The cruise was, at least, a wonderful experience so look for some photos soon when I am able to get up.

I haven’t been blogging much lately.  Why?  Because I just moved with my wife into a big new house!  So, we haven’t really been up to much except planning moving, buying stuff, thinking about moving, actually moving, cleaning and setting up.  And I do realize that there is a lot I could be blogging about dealing with the process… but you know what?  I’m beat.  So, I’ll be back soon now that we are 90% settled and hopefully I’ll have more time to ruminate here.

How to purchase a simple floor fan at Wal-Mart:

Step 1: Search the floor of the store

Step 2: Locate window fans and box fans, fail to find floor standing fans

Step 3: Ask employee where floor fans are. Receive answer “we have no fan”

Step 4: Check window and box fan area again.

Step 5: Ask another employee where floor fans are. Receive answer in some form of Swahili “Sulawga.”  Ask for clarification.  He emphatically responds “Check e suwlaga!”

Step 6: Wander around store for 15 more minutes looking for fans.

Step 7: Accidentally come across floor fans out in the lawn and garden section.

Editors note: floor fans belong in neither your lawn nor your garden.

After you’ve located one, good luck making your way to the checkout.

I finally picked up the fan (which I am sure will break in 3 months) and headed for the exit. A sea of spandex, flip flops and NASCAR t-shirt wearing mouth breathers blocked my way. It was literally impossible to turn a corner or go through an aisle without someone smashing into me. A cacophony of yelling (mostly in Spanish) surrounds me. Finally I see the check out lane. On the way to my car, someone is beeping and yelling at others trying to drive out of the lot. The mouth breathers are everywhere with their shopping carts, thrusting themselves in front of me at every turn. Finally I am inside the car. My wife drives us out and we swear we will never come back again.

Wordpress has released an app for iPhone which allows full posting capability including categories and tags from anywhere. Pretty neat. I’m posting from it now so we will see how this goes.