Note: I wrote this last Thursday, but wanted to add a picture to the post. Unfortunately, my card reader is still lost in the depths of the tower of cardboard boxes in the new house. Decided I better just post it. 
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Well, I THOUGHT I was going to blog more anyway. Today is my first normalish day back after moving, traveling, and doing family stuff. And now Geoff and I have a house to get ready to sell and another house to unpack. Today, the plan is to get the food over to the new house (and throw out a lot in the process) so we can actually cook in our new, bigger kitchen.
Our move to the new place went very well – we ended up with 6 people helping, which was enough that we finished up in less than 4 hours. Of course, by “finished up” I mean “moved over everything that was packed and ready to go.” There was still a lot of odds and ends that needed to be dealt with. And, at the new house we ended up putting much of the furniture in the garage- so the new house is pretty bare apart from all the boxes. We also left quite a bit of furniture at the old house for staging purposes, so there’s not much to sit on (feel free to visit, but we’ll probably end up sitting on floor cushions.)
The day after we moved, I went to Washington DC to attend a couple of conferences (Digital Humanities 2009 and THATCamp, which I will blog about over at nirak.net). I had three days in which to do touristy stuff, and I took in most of the art museums, part of the museum of natural history, and the folklife festival. In particular, I really liked the Stanley William Hayter exhibit in the national gallery and the “Strange Bodies” exhibit in the basement of the Hirshhorn. I even got to meet up with a friend and fellow artist from Lincoln while in DC, which was great. I love going to museums with others that view the work obsessed with the question “how did they do that?”
My mom was kind enough to lend me her Verizon wireless internet card and cradlepoint while I was in DC- which I mostly used to get internet on my ipod touch. The experience made me want an iphone even more, but not so much I am willing to pay over $4300 over 2 years to own one.
The two conferences I went to (btw, these were not paid for by work) were really interesting and I was exhausted and my brain was full by the end. Monday I went to work 7:30 – 10:30 and after that went to a family obligation that lasted till 9:30 or so. I did some unpacking after that and tried to set up my computer only to find the install is broken somehow. So part or the plan for tonight is reinstalling Ubuntu (glad it’s Ubuntu because I have no clue where any of my system disks are). (update- install went w/o a hitch- smartest thing I ever did was putting the /home directory on another partition)
As we unpack we are making more tough decisions about what to get rid of. It’s a little easier to get rid of things now, as we don’t want to clutter the nice new house.