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Moving, Day Two: Barstow to Holbrook

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Tuesday morning started with breakfast in the Holiday Inn Express in Barstow, eating instant oatmeal and watching television coverage of the first same-sex marriages in California.  Then we had to figure out what to do with the plants.
The Plants

Oh, the plants.  I haven’t really talked about the plants and the move.  I had a lot [...]

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Moving, Day One: Berkeley to Barstow

Monday, August 11th, 2008

[I can't believe I haven't written these up yet!  And I've hit that point where I feel like I can't write anything -else- until I get these done, so let's go.]
The first day of the trip was a very long day.  As I’ve mentioned, we packed using self-pack shipping containers, and they were scheduled to [...]

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a week in the life, conclusion.

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

1.  Laundry day.  (18 July 2008, 9 am.)

2.  Convention hotel.  (18 July 2008, 2 pm.)

3.  View from the audience.  (18 July 2008, 5 pm.)

4.  Remains of the dinner.  (18 July 2008, 7 pm.)

5.  Hallway. (18 July 2008, 10 pm.)
(My Week in the Life photo postings got derailed by Readercon–first I couldn’t get internet at the [...]

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a week in the life, day five.

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

1.  Crane.  (17 July 2008, 11 am.)

2.  Backyard.  (17 July 2008, 11 am.)

3.  Mid-afternoon.  (17 July 2008, 3 pm)

4.  Brooklyn.  (17 July 2008, 10 pm)

5.  Fire escape.  (17 July 2008, 11 pm)

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a week in the life, day four.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

1.  Subway art, 8th Avenue.  (16 July 2008, 8 am.)

2. One-sixty-somethingth.  (16 July 2008, 8:30 am.)

3.  Van Cortland Park.  (16 July 2008, 9 am.)

4.  Office window.  (16 July 2008, 10 am.)

5. Between Tillinghast and Pforzheimer. (16 July 2008, 4 pm.)

6.  Art on the hillside.

7.  Stairs down, KGB.  (16 July 2008, 9 pm.)

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a week in the life, day three.

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

1. Staircase.  (15 July 2008, 9 am.)

2. Construction.  (15 July 2008, 9:30 am.)

3. Bicycle forest.  (15 July 2008, 10 am.)

4. What passes for a desk these days.  (15 July 2008, noon.)

5. Ready to go running.  (15 July 2008, 1 pm.)

6. Boxes, boxes, and then more boxes.  (15 July 2008, 6 pm.)

7.  Dinner’s end.  (15 July [...]

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a week in the life, day two.

Monday, July 14th, 2008

1.  Hand-rolled, kettle-boiled, oven-baked. (14 July 2008, 8 am.)

2. Pretend this is a picture of the antique Hugos.  (14 July 2008, noonish.)

3.  Union Square Station.  (14 July 2008, 3 pm.)

4.  I haven’t -quite- forgotten how to cook.  (14 July 2008, 5 pm.)

5. Approaching sunset.  (14 July 2008, 8 pm.)

6.  It’s going to take us a [...]

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a week in the life, day one.

Monday, July 14th, 2008

1.  The view from the kitchen window.  (Saturday, 12 July 2008, 7 am.)

2.  Greenmarket lettuce.  (12 July 2008, 10 am.)

3.  Bedford Avenue hosts a marching band.  (12 July 2008, 2 pm.)

4. My mother’s backyard.  (12 July 2008, 6 pm.)

5.  Sunday morning.  (13 July 2008, 9 am.)

6.  Even puppies like muffins.  (13 July 2008, 10 am.)

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no sleep ’til…

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

I’ve been so remiss, I know.  The internet comes to our house on Friday, after which point I’ll be around more (and posting more, including the backlogged half-written trip-log posts).  I’m on borrowed neighborhood internet at the moment, which might disappear at any moment, so I’ll be quick.
We have an apartment!  Which we are moved [...]

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Moving: The overview.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

We’re in New York!  Or, well, Matt’s in New York, and I’m in New Jersey, and we’re looking for a place to live.  The majority of our worldly possessions are in big metal boxes being held at a shipping depot somewhere in Brooklyn; the smaller remainder of our stuff made the trip with us, by [...]

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