My New Place : A Visual Tour
February 20, 2008 @ 1:41 am categories : Featured, Geek Stuff, PersonalFinally found a new apartment, big enough for myself, Nad, The Woman, our 2 cats, 2 snakes, and 2 scorpions. I’ve never had more trouble finding a place in my life before this one. It was getting almost ridiculous. But, I tried to keep a good mindset. This comic I read the other day sums up the experience perfectly. Almost too realistic, in fact.
Anyway, enough of that. Here’s a look into the past week or so of my life, and some shots of the new place. Please to be clicking the thumbnails for full-size images.
Some Random Street Art. Found near the new place. Thought it looked pretty cool, and took a pic. It looked like either Alfred Hitchcock or Hunter S. Thompson at first, but I’ve since found the inspiration for this piece on a huge wall a few blocks up – and it’s of Alfred Hitchcock (obviously, the original is lacking the sign).
Mr Peepers #1. My Valentine’s Day gift for The Woman. She had fallen in love with this little beauty some months ago on a random trip to Orange County at the world’s greatest reptile store (Prehistoric Pets) but her mom hates snakes. So, I felt it was a good housewarming gift, as well as a mushy-mush VD gift. It’s an albino corn snake. his head (and beady red eyes) is in the lower right corner of the white bag he’s in.
Mr Peepers #2. Mr. Peepers (I called him that cause he likes to hide and then “peep” out at the world) is also Misi’s new favorite hair decor. He can literally chill out there for hours, and we’ve gone shopping for hours with him just wrapped up and relaxing. No one even notices.
Bouschka, worn out. Bouschka’s so lazy, he gets worn out just watching me and Nad pack up our old place.
Box o’ Cords #1. My office/desk/command center area has grown quite large since my last move, and this box is just the cords for my setup.
Box o’ Cords #2. A side-shot of the cord box, for size reference against a stereo receiver and the box for my 20-inch Apple Cinema Display.
Bouschka, again. Bouschka warmed up to the new place very quickly. Here he is doing what he does best – lying around and looking cute.
Mitcz’s Bathroom Kit. Because Misi rules, she got me this badass badger hair shaving brush, high-quality shaving soap, and my very own straight razor. Now I can shave like my grandpa. And that rules.
DVD Racks. Our 400-and-growing DVD collection (which now includes Misi’s collection) has outgrown the 3 bookshelves. Nad and I were kinda stressing on how we’d fit a 4th bookshelf into the old place, but there’s enough room in the new place to make it happen. A 5th bookshelf, however, while require a little more planning.
The Living Room This is a shot of our living room. We’ll be replacing the couch soon, but it works for now. I’d like to replace that TV, too, but Nad and Misi tell me there’s more important things to buy first. Oh well. At least the new HD box from the cable company pumps some pretty impressive imagery into that thing.
Shaitan, Cookie Puss and Seven “The Kids” as we call them. Well, 3 of the 6 anyway. Shaitan is the ball python. Seven is one of the emperor scorpions (named as such because she’s got but 7 legs). Cookie Puss is the other one. Named because I took too long to name her and Misi thought she needed a cute name, since I bend towards “evil” names.
The Command Center #1 This is where I spend most of my time. It’s a pretty sweet setup, and I finally have room for all my crap. But, where’s all the cords?
The Command Center #2 Oh. There they are. Well, most of ‘em anyway. I still haven’t setup everything, but it’s about 95% of the way there.
I’ve got a lot more photos around and about the place. I might post ‘em later, but this was the stuff I could post without invading anyone else’s privacy :)
Hope you enjoyed the tour. I’ll probably start blogging again, now that my time isn’t being monopolized by searching for a place. I’ve still got until March 6th to move the rest of my shit in here, but thankfully it’s all the small shit.
How the hell are YOU guys doin’?
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