: I'm still here... :

It's been a busy time since my last post - after getting back from a short visit in Ohio, on Friday we went to the American Museum of Natural Science in New York and watched a couple of shows there, an IMAX movie on caves, and a planetarium show called "Cosmic Collisions." The museum is huge, and we didn't have a lot of time, so we couldn't really see very much during the few hours we were there. We did see the dinosaur bones, the aquatic life exhibit, the mammals, some early American cultures, and part of the space exhibit, but there is so much more that we didn't get to. It's the kind of museum you could visit every week for the rest of your life and never see everything, because they are constantly changing and updating their space, and it's three stories tall. I'll post some pictures of that later.

Over the holiday weekend, I've been busy setting up my new apartment. I moved in Saturday morning, and my family helped unpack all afternoon. I also got a plasma TV from Costco, and we set it up on my new TV stand, and unpacked my subwoofers that had been delivered by mail. The rest of the weekend I've been alternating by unpacking stuff and buying new things, like bookcases and drawers from IKEA and household stuff from Target. There's still a lot to be done, but it's all getting there. I'm sure I'll be busy with it for quite a while.

One thing that is not yet done is Internet access - I haven't been able to get a hold of the cable company to come out and hook me up. I'm writing this from my family's house, so I just wanted to let everyone know that I'll be on hiatus until I get my net access at my apartment, which should be in a week or two.

Last bit of news - I got my letter confirming my SRS date from Dr. Brassard's office, so now I'm ready to start tackling the passport/driver's license quest. If only it had come earlier, I could have done all that while I wasn't working. Now I'll have to find time inside the workday to do it. Bleh.