Sorry for the lack of updates; phone and DSL service at the old place has been cut off, and I won't be up and running with service at the new place for at least another week.

I'm basically fully moved in at this point. I have a couple of random things to move over, but the new house is fully armed and operational. The great gutting of the living room is going well. Soon there will be home theater, and it will be good. And angels will sing.

The electrical panel replacement took place the day after I closed on the house, so I now have reasonable and extensible electrical service coming into the house. Today the phone company came by and replaced the ancient phone demarcation terminal on the house (which was really just four screw terminals in a cheesy non-weather-tight plastic box) with a proper CLI. They said the wire connecting my house to the nearest junction box (which is basically in my back yard anyway) was no longer up to spec, so they're going to replace it as well. In the meantime, they strung a nice fat cable across my yard. So there's some work to be done there, but in the meantime my phone service up to the CLI is working and up-to-date. The subscriber lines shall be digital, and yea they shall be asynchronous. For it has been foretold that there will be a great flowing of bits.

So I was vacuuming some random spider webs that had accumulated in the ceiling corners during the 10 month vacancy at my house... and knocked a big piece of ceiling trim down. Turns out it wasn't nailed in or glued or anything. They cut it to fit snugly and just left it hanging there. Nice.

Mark your calendars, there are some important holidays coming up. For starters, Wednesday is Pi day. I'll be wearing my Pi T-shirt, Pi-apron, and baking a pie in my Pi pie plate. Yum. Thursday is the ides of March; watch out for anyone you know named Brutus. Yes, him too. Saturday is St. Patty's day, wherein everyone should make an attempt to eat Scottish Eggs, possibly the least healthy food item ever invented. It's basically a hard boiled egg wrapped in a meatball. But man are they good.

I seem to own a large flat panel LCD all of the sudden. That's going to bite me in the ass when mortgage payment #1 comes up here in about 2 weeks...

Let's see... what else. Aside from moving, the only thing of note I've done lately is some mad geocaching on Saturday. I left my house at 5:30am for a marathon day of caching in Santa Fe. Collected 36 caches in one day, nearly doubling my previous record. This included several caches done on foot while my truck was in the shop for service. That evening there was an event cache at the SF Brewery, which was fun. Met lots of of the heavy hitters of Santa Fe geocaching and made some new friends. Did my first night cache, with a crowd of about 3,000 people. It was a mess. Anyway I had fun.