Back where it's sane

Forgive me dear readers for I have neglected you. It's been nearly 4 months since my last post.

You can thank my buddy Ktorrek for giving me the kick in the pants I needed to start blogging again. He had to go and link to my blog.

A lot has happened over the last 4 months.

We landed in Illinois safely. Thanks to Frangelica's father our stuff arrived here before we did. One of my mother's coworkers supplied a variably sized hoard of helpers to unload the truck. Unlike some of my previous moves, everything arrived safely. Or so we thought at the time.

Highlights, in no particular order:

• Frangelica earned her Driver's license, and for the first time ever can legally drive a car by herself
• She is taking a couple of classes at a local community college
• Approximately 1 week after Frangelica got her driver's license someone broke into our new car and stole her purse. Almost everything has been replaced, but it was both time consuming and expensive. I estimate a total cost of nearly $500, just so the thief could get $8 and a useless cell phone. That doesn't include time off work.
• I thought I had cancelled my cell phone, but I had only put it on hold. So I got to pay Sprint for 2 months for a phone I don't have
• We have a cheaper pay as we go plan. The one from sprint was too expensive for what we needed.
• I ended up piecing together a new computer, because my old one was on it's last legs. The final straw was when half of the ram went south. My good friend Ktorrek put it together for me and I'm downloading crazy big data files as I type, including a copy of Visual C# Express, the Windows XNA Beta, The latest DirectX sdk, and the beta of the .NET 3.0 platform (formerly Avalon).
• Frangelica's computer is mostly dead. Ktorrek is attempting some horrific experiment designed to revive it. It will end up as a Frankenstinian combination of my old computer and Frangelica's old computer.
• I have returned to the east coast once to touch base. As always, my return flight was delayed. I had to spend a night with a friend before I could actually come home. Otherwise the trip went well.
• Working from home is awesome.
• My mother was caught in a flash flood a few weeks ago. She's fine but her car died. She bought a newer version of my car.
• The same rains that destroyed my mother's car flooded our storage locker. Fortunately there was minimal damage, but I need to get our furniture cleaned.
• As I expected, since I left work the push for Unit Testing has gone completely. But I still get to test drive what I do, so it's not a total loss.
• I bought Monte Cook's Ptolus. I couldn't help myself. I'm trying to get a group together but it's not going well.
• This website will probably change soon. I think I'm going to go with 1and1 and get an actual domain name. Frangelica might get her own domain name too. Who knows? I'll keep you all posted (hi mom!).

And that in a nutshell is the last four months.