Moving…again.

For the second time in 6 months, I’m packing boxes and getting ready to move to a new place.  This time, instead of moving my office from Sugarcreek FMC to NewPointe, I’m moving my living space from Sugarcreek to Dover.

This wasn’t a rush deal, really it wasn’t.  I didn’t HAVE to move out immediately, but between my workload and other things, the timing was just right.  I had mentioned yesterday that I already had my eyes on an apartment that has good looks, great location and pretty reasonable price  (and the landlord is pretty cool too…he’s an IT guy!).  Things worked out really well over the past 24 hours, and today I was able to sign a lease agreement for the apartment.

So I’ve been packing for the move.  I knew I was going somewhere, so I began packing before I even knew I had a lock on the apartment.  Some people say “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.”  I’m saying that “you don’t know what you’ve got until you try to put it all into cardboard boxes!”  GOOD GRIEF!  I’ve got some lessons to learn on excess, for sure.

99% of the packing is done though, and now I’m gearing up for the fun gruesome next stage… transport!

The hunt begins

This week was a relatively light week in the IT and Video departments, which has come in real handy.  I had the opportunity to take Friday off to do some apartment hunting.

I drove around the Dover/New Philadelphia area today and checked out about 5 different apartments (and talked to their respective landlords as well), and so far I’ve found one that I really like.  Good price, good living conditions, a good amount of flexibility, and a VERY nice quiet location (right now, the house that I’m renting is off of a state highway, and I would really like to find a quieter dwelling, so this is huge.)

Hopefully, if things work out, I’ll be going into the moving process over the next 1-2 weeks.  I’m hoping I’ll be able to post something decent during that time, but I’ll make no guarantees.

As for the Time-Warner install, they haven’t been around since Wednesday.  Hopefully next week NewPointe will make the jump to cable.

Time-Warner – Today??

I turned into the driveway at NewPointe this morning and saw something new and exciting near our bridge…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

The cables (that were installed by Adelphia before they moved out) have been here a long time, but there’s a jumper at end of the cable headed to the road, so someone’s definitely been doing some testing.  Plus that large green hood wasn’t there yesterday.  I’d say it’s a safe bet that Time-Warner has been on-site.  Sa-weeeeet!! 

Hopefully I’ll have more to post on later.  I don’t see any signs that the tech has been in the building yet.  Schedule-wise, this would be a GREAT week for the cable installation to happen.

More on this as today’s events unfold…

Update:  Looks like just the construction is happening today.  By the end of the day though, we’ll have a verified signal coming into the building, so it won’t be long until our internet access is provisioned and our modem arrives.  I am seriously PUMPED about this…for those of you who haven’t followed the story up to now, this is our first hardwire connection to the internet since we moved out of Sugarcreek.

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s the splitter that was installed in the work room.  I’m half-tempted to hook a TV to it to see if anything will come in.

 

 

Thoughts thus far…

Again, it’s been one of those weeks where the IT/Video guy is doing a lot of running.  It’s not bad, but just enough to keep me away from a computer for anything beyond repairs or email.

• I’m falling into an odd sleep pattern during the weekend that I am starting to like:  I’ve been sleeping on Sunday afternoon and evening, and then in the late evening I’ve been getting up and going to the church to take care of some IT issues.  Some would call that sick and wrong, but I’ve yet to find such a span of time that’s so free of distractions.  During the 8 or so hours I have before the staff rolls in, this gives me a chance to do maintenance on PCs that would be otherwise occupied, and also work on servers that I can’t bring down during the workday.  PLUS, since I’ve napped it up all afternoon, I’m wide awake the whole time.  I’m not suggesting that people do this…. this is just what works for me for the moment, and I justify it by staying at home on Fridays.

• After a few months of doing repairs and upgrades in my cubicle, I finally managed to land a storage space to use for a workbench area.  Trying to work on machines in a cube is just too messy.

• Jason has a great post on his blog regarding the importance of planning and testing backups.

• More NewPointe bloggers have hit the scene:
  • Danny Bunnelle, our music director, has begun blogging on all things creative.  You can find his blog, “iBlogCreativeStuf” right here.
  • Our very own Kevin West has also entered the blogging realm.  You can find his blog, “See The Invisible” over here.

• I realized this past week that warm weather makes me feel profoundly happy.  Winter, although it usually averages out the same, always seems to take longer than it should.

• I’m going to be moving.  I’m sort of looking forward to it, but not the actual moving process…. so much work….and SO much JUNK.

 Hopefully things will calm down soon and I’ll be able to get my brain realigned.

Stupid Mac humor

I strolled into the control room this morning to do some editing, and found a note on one of our monitors that cracked me up.  Apparently one of our staff has witnessed OS X’s “jumping dock icon” for the first time. 

In case you can’t read the handwriting, it says “Coach, pick me!”

Perhaps you had to be there, but I thought it was funny enough to warrant a post.