Moving right along. . .

[rolanni]

So, the painter says he's outta there at the end of the week.  That means I need to contact Mike the Electrician to get him in the first of next week to fix the various issues.  Also, we'll be able to start moving some things into the New Digs over the weekend.  It would be A Good Thing and Worthy if the Rug Guy #2:  The Installer could manage to get in next week and do his thing, too.  Fingers crossed.

We have visited the cable company and lined up the change of address/service.  I think.  We are assured that we will be able to keep the phone number that we've had for 28 years, though there had initially been some question about that for reasons that I never did understand.  I mean, we were first given the number when we were living in Waterville and brought it across the river(s) with us when we bought this house.  Why bringing in back across the river(s) would be any kind of problem is beyond me.  But!  Whatever the problem was, it has been made To Go Away, and that's good enough for me.

The cable guy of course pulled up our account while we were talking to him, and was impressed that we've been with "the company" for twenty years (actually, we've been with several companies and never changed once:   we subscribed to mint.net, back in the day, which was then sold to Roadrunner, which was then sold to Time-Warner, which was then sold to Spectrum.  And here we are.) -- and also noted that we, err, didn't subscribe to a cable plan.

We explained that we used the service to access the internet and our landline.  Oh, said the cable guy, so you stream movies over the internet?  Well, no; we said not so much that, either, really.  We might watch the occasional DVD on a night off, but mostly we read.

Read, the cable guy repeated, on a rising note.

Yes, we said; read.  Books.  We come from the past, where people read for enjoyment.

A moment of silence, then:  So, it's a lifestyle thing, said the cable guy.

That's right, we said gently; it's a lifestyle thing.

On the business side of life, we've signed two contracts over the last week.  One to tidy up an existing contract; and the other for the publication of A Liaden Universe® Constellation Volume Four.  There's no publication date set yet; we're to deliver the manuscript in August.

I think that gets us caught up.  Hope everyone is having a pleasant Monday.

Oh, the flowers are starting to bloom at the New Digs.  Here's a pic from the back yard:

Comments

[sraun]

Yay! for A Liaden Universe® Constellation Volume Four.

[mirlacca]

I'm thinking this guy was not IN the house to see all the books?

You could have really knocked his socks off and told him you WRITE. But I'm betting he wouldn't have been able to grasp the concept that people. write. books.

[rolanni]

No, we stopped by the office. Even if he'd come to the house, the books here at the old house are boxed; and there aren't any books at all at the new house.

[cgbookcat1]

Progress is made! These steps are daunting -- we are thinking about buying our first home in the next few years and there is so much to do. But hooray for a 4th volume of short stories!

Do we know anything about what Luken's daughters are up to? Should we expect them to pop up in future stories?

[theowlunderground]

I love the idea of scatter planting spring bulb all over the yard. We have the kind of grass ("Bermuda") that dies back to the roots in fall, the lawn guy comes in early spring and "scalps" it, and then it starts growing back green about quarter of March or a quarter after April, depending on the weather. By the time the grass greens up again, the bulbs have bloomed and are over. Of course, if you didn't have grass, but had a "woods" instead, you could really get happy with the nasturtiums and the hyacinths, and snow drops and daffodils. Get a great crop of spring flowers and let Nature do all the work (except the bulb planting part--!).

Things appear to be going smoothly with the new house prep. We will hope the Lares and Penates continue to accept your offerings and remain well-disposed toward you and the new digs.

[rolanni]

We're going to have observe the new yard and plantings closely this coming year. The back yard is kind of a wilderness -- less treed than I like, but it's a full acre, in the city. When we bought the place the property was still under four feet of snow, so the lay of the land is just now revealing itself.

[martianmooncrab]

next thing, the movers will ask if you have actually "read all those books" you have in your house...

sigh...

Still finding new bulbs

[ireneha]

I've been in my house for almost 40 years. I'm still finding new bulbs.
Perhaps the squirrels are planting them?

Don't forget to find a good place to put a "cat garden".

Finally, Don't plant any trees until you determine where the water, gas & sewer lines are. I've cut down the tree that was above the sewer line - line still clogs with roots.
PS: I hope that yesterday you didn't get the snow. (CT had a dusting - but APRIL ALREADY! - Yah know?)

[(Anonymous)]

Glad moving is going well.
Thanks for the flowers - I hope you don't get the inches of ice pellets and then inches of freezing rain and then piles of slush that we in southern Ontario are still digging out/watching pour down the gutters.

[hairmonger]

I must try the lifestyle phrase the next time my cable company tried to hard-sell me some tv.

Mary Anne in Kentucky