Posts Tagged ‘Lansing’
Moving, part tres
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
We got everything out of the old apartment in Lansing a week ago today. I’ve still got some stuff in my car, hopefully I’ll get that cleaned out this weekend now that the weather is nicer. Here is a crappy pic of our new place taken this morning with my crackberry. We still have a lot of unpacking and organizing to do.
livingroom boxes
Life Update.
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
Just gonna make it a list.
- Work
- Moved to the Secteam in Sept.
- Back on 2nd shift (4pm-12am) in Oct.
- Car stuff
- Bart bought a 2004 Tahoe in Aug.
- Its been in 3 times for repairs. Over $1600 spent before 2 payments were made.
- Tahoe now has pretty white letters on the side expressing our unhappiness. [pics forthcoming]
- Contour is still running like a champ.
- Bonneville had to have the upper and lower intake manifolds done AGAIN, to the tune of $1200.
- Both Bonneville and Tahoe have aftermarket remote start/car alarms.
- Bonneville has back windows darkly tinted.
- Other stuff
- Still checking out apts in Grand Rapids, however moving to Marshall or staying in Lansing are now options as well
- Apt building we are currently in had to have major sewer repairs a couple weeks ago
Violated.
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
Went to go to work this morning, and found my car broken into. Bart’s car also got hit. They took our stereos and radar detectors, and Bart’s credit card & atm card. This isn’t the first time cars have been broken into in our apartment complex, either. Thieves hit the same parking lot last summer. Hopefully they go to use one of Bart’s cards and get videotaped.
Edit: Bart found his atm card. They also took a set of tools and a lawn chair from his car.
Edit Feb 8th – I have full coverage on my car, so I only need to pay a $100 deductible and I get my stereo and window replaced, along with the molding/pieces of my car that got ripped out when they took the stereo & radar detector. Bart had to pay about $200 out-of-pocket to have his window replaced.
Shit-tastic
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
Today was just unbelievably dumb.
I got to work a little early so I could upgrade my workstation, which I thought would be a quickish thing, but nooo. Kubuntu had other ideas. The GUI install bombed out and borked my debconf. I rebooted and X &/or KDE were borked such that I had no GUI. So I ended up spending about 45 minutes “fixing” it and re-doing the upgrade, which finally completed successfully. Except for the fact I have no sound again. Grr.
Then there was workstuff. People’s sites overloading servers, yaddayadda. Busybusybusy.
Bart called me in late morning/early afternoon to let me know some asshole busted off the antenna on his car sometime last night – likely someone from our apt complex but possibly just a passing vandal.
Then I got home and retrieved the mail, which contained our electric bill from LBWL. Which is due tomorrow. I don’t know why we’re just now getting it since the “date printed” date on it says Nov 19, and I’m assuming it came from just across town or wherever LBWL gets them printed. The envelope also was not sealed at all. Not making me happy. I paid it online just now, hopefully that’s good enough.
Looking for a new apartment.
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
So I decided last night that while I like the size of this apartment and the location, and the price – the security, neighbors, (lack of) maintenance, and a ton of other things, bugs me enough about it to make me want to move when our lease comes up at the end of Feb.
We pretty much have three choices:
- Stay here another year
- Find an apartment in/near Lansing
- Find an apartment in/near Grand Rapids
If we move to GR, Consumers will move us, so we won’t have that expense. I kind of want to stay near Lansing though. *sigh*