3:41 PM Monday, <July 28>, <2008>
Well, big weekend. Friday night was the Market Track move down the street, which ended up being a pretty late night, even though it was our second time doing it. Figure we might be a little more versed in the process, but I still didn't get to go home until 4am, and then had to be back around 8:30am. Awesome. Bike riding home at 4am is interesting though, just cause the only people out are those going home for the places that close at 4am. Which is a surprising amount of people. But definitely nice and quiet. Saturday, only had to go in to work until 1pm or so. Then headed to the old home to pick up the AV Receiver, to try and get some music for the party. Took me a while, but it works. Using the Remote app on the iPhone to control music piping throughout the house? Pretty sweet. If they could only do volume control. I'll have to wait and see what sort of iPhone home automation stuff people can come up with before deciding what I want to do. Would be nice to be able to control it all from my phone. But the new place, at least the deck, very conducive to socializing. Lisa and Ryan were in town, and they stayed with us, so we had Bonnie and Ray, Jespy, the Russells, Tony and Carlo over to hang out. Tracy worked the grill, which is a little small for entertaining. Otherwise, pretty nice. Didn't really see any fireworks from Venetian Night, Chicago gets in the way. Didn't stay up too late, since I was running on 2-3 hours of sleep. Lisa and Ryan and Jespy spent the night, and Sunday morning April joined us and we made it over to Nookies Tree for breakfast, and got there early enough that we didn't wait too long. Hung out at home for a little bit longer before everyone checked out. Tracy and I went out to do some more shopping, Home Depot, Pier 1 Imports, Bed Bath & Beyond and Target. And the place is getting closer. Got a paper towel holder installed. Shoe rack. Plunger. Getting closer.