I’m alive! That’s a feat considering Saturday brought 100 degree heat to my corner of MN. If you bothered to read my last post, you’d know I moved. Really, I didn’t do too much moving of myself on Saturday. I had moved several things over in the previous weeks which only left a few large pieces of furniture to move on Saturday.

After finishing work on Friday and coming home to find the cable and internet service had been shut off, I decided that there was no point in sticking around the old place that night. With that I grabbed all my vital possessions (namely my computer) and drove over and tried to get some semblance of order going in my room.

Speaking of my room… there’s one word to describe it, cramped. This is another story, but I ended up buying a queen size bed which takes up about half the room. Add to that my computer desk, a dresser, a file cabinet, and a TV stand and there’s barely enough room to walk. I just keep telling myself that I will only be there for 9 months and that I can deal with it until then.

Back to the Saturday move. To say things went as planned would be a great lie. It was anything but. I showed up at the old place in the morning as requested by Laura, but no one else did. I gave it some time and then called to see what was going on. The first truck they got was in Coon Rapids instead of the local UHaul place and broke down 5 min away from the UHaul garage. More than an hour later, they had a smaller truck and were on their way, only about 3 hours behind schedule.

After that it, the load went smoothly. As far as I know, we didn’t do any major damage to the townhouse while hauling things out and with 5 people, things moved very quickly. As the day progressed, it heated up to over 100 degrees outside. It was brutal, but we kept ourselves hydrated and no one had a problem. Besides the truck, our worst problem was trying to get Hank’s couch in the basement. In the end, we took a door off its hinges and managed to only scrape the wood railing going down the stairs.

Lately, my free time has been non-existant and it’s starting to wear on me. Having time to myself to do whatever I wish is important to me and to my mental health. Hopefully with all this moving out of the way, now things can get back to normal.

In fact, I even had time to check out a show on Monday night. It wasn’t hooked up by Decoy. Rick and I went just to have a good time and check out some really good bands. The lineup for Strhess 2006 was as follows: Still Remains, Bury Your Dead, Darkest Hour, Poison The Well, and Shadows Fall. I did still shoot during the show. I’ve uploaded the pictures over at Flickr.