The Zereps

as i write this eric is currently at 34,000 feet somewhere over the midwest, on his way to ca to be in kit and jakki’s wedding and have loads of fun. i, on the other hand, am stuck at home watching a movie on my laptop and ruining my diet with chinese takeout. -sigh- no effing comment. i even tried to look for cheap, last-minute fares today and yesterday, but those dumb effers only raised their prices. like i can afford $500 now when i couldn’t afford $350 2 months ago. stupid effing capitalism with its class distinction and the have and the have-nots. kiss my arse. where’s communism when you need it? at least then *nobody* could afford $500 tickets. food tickets and arm bands for everybody! getting married? here! have a book of poetry written by our benevolent mao! -sigh- no comment, indeed…

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Today we met for lunch with the head honcho of AMM (the non-profit org. that we’re going to be doing some volunteer work with pretty soon.) His name is Rod and he works for Citibank. He took Matt, Candice, and I to this really nice chinese place in Manhattan called China Grill. Luckily for us they had a good selection of vegetarian foods available. It was nice to have a break from the mediocre food we’ve been eating lately. The rest of the day was spent by me studying for my Network+ test and submitting resumes to various places. Tomorrow I’m off back to California (only the southern part this time) to get ready for Kit & Jakki’s wedding.

our sweet little doggy has just peed all over our comfortor and sleeping bags! we were wrassling with him with the blankets and tussling around when i started to notice a vague smell of what i thought was pasta. after the ruckus died down we noticed little wet marks strewn around the top of the bed. and a large wet mark directly under my knee and on a sleeping bag! aparently jabba got so excited that he couldn’t control himself. poor little puppy. thankfully it was just spots, so it didn’t affect our sheets. well, guess we’ll be making a trip to the laundry as soon as possible.

on another note, we got to go out to eat for lunch today! 🙂 it’s the first time we’ve been out since we got here. i was bad and broke my raw food diet, but just for lunch. SO yummy!

we also took the bus today to save some walking home. it was nice! we’ll be taking it more often now. we just pay using out metro cards, like the subway.

on another note, there’s this really good book i’ve been wanting to read really badly. has anyone read it?

It is now midnight and I almost went to bed without updating the blog. ::gasp::

As I said above, the hour of 12am has struck and this is the current weather outside:

# Temp: 82°F
# Heat Index: 86°F
# Humidity: 66%

82 degrees, but it feels like 86. ::shaking head in disbelief::

Not much new or exciting happened today. Had my interview, but they were looking for a different set of skills than the ones I have. Went grocery shopping, like I do almost every day–you’d be suprised how much less you buy on a single trip to the store when you have to carry everything back home on foot. Searched for jobs on the internet some more. And that’s about it….

Well.. today we got a lot done on our new place. 10 more boxes of our boxes shipped via Fedex came today. Feels more and more like home the more of our stuff that we get here–and it saves us tons and tons of money from having to buy everything over again. Thanks to Chris, we even got our air conditioner here from CA to NY for 3 bucks!

Secondly, Candice spent a lot of the day putting up contact paper in the kitchen and cleaning various things. I, on the other hand, did my duty as the household electrician and put in completely new light switches and outlets all over the house. Much to my suprise, all but two of the outlets in the house are grounded, even though there are only two wires going into the outlets (I think the holder boxes inside act as the ground.) That made me happy as I was not looking foward to plugging my computer into an ungrounded outlet (even with my new UPS.) Unfortunately for me, one of the two ungrounded outlets is in the office. =( So, I guess I’ll just have to use the other one on the other side of the room. (note: for all you mothers and grandmothers out there who worry about electrical safety and whatnot, you will be glad to learn that, yes, I did completely turn off all the electricity to the whole house while I was working so there was no chance of me killing myself.)

And, the third major event of the day was the arrival of my new Super Microwave:

Unfortunately, the only things we have in the house that are microwavable (and that have bar codes) are two TV dinners. So, I’ll be off to the store tomorrow to buy more microwavable foods.

Also, I have another job interview tomorrow. It’s a temporary, 3-month position with the ability to turn into a full-time one….

eric will write more text in a few, but here are some highlights of the day.

eric worked on almost every single outlet/switch in the place today. first, though, he had to go downstairs into the neighboors ‘visitors’ ‘basement’ and turn all the power off.

here’s eric at work on an outlet *that’s acutally grounded!!*

here is a typical outlet that is *not* grounded. notice the fabric surrounding the very old wiring.