We got the new apartment cleaned on Thursday and it looks (and feels) worlds better. No more grime nor cat hairs rolling around trying to attack us. Things are getting more settled and we’ve put all our furniture up on Craigslist to get it moving. We would like to sell all of our stuff to make ourselves lighter whenever we move again. Our rule of thumb has been that if it doesn’t fir in one of the cars, it can’t go to the new place. No trucks nor diesel fuels will be consumed during the move from Columbia Heights to Adams Morgan.
I posted some video shot from the windows of our new castle way up in the sky. I am starting to accumulate some content on Google Video and you can keep track of me chronologically by checking out my News Page. That’s all for now… it’s time to start packing up the bookshelves at the old place to fill up the massive one here in the new apt.
We´ve found a new place to live. Although we are saddened to be scurrying out of our Girard St. apartment, we are very much looking forward to some good times in our new building. It´s called the Chastleton and we´re moving up onto the top and eighth floor. It´s got a spectacular view of the Kennedy Center, Washington Monument, steeples and the Reagan approach. I´ll post pictures from the day and night times once they get taken. Now we are going to get our old place packed up and ready to move on down to Dupont.
Come over for a beer sometime, it is the only thing that occupies the fridge at the moment.
Mary and I submitted our papers to leave our Apartment on October 4th, which is 30 days from today. Maybe we’ll actually leave on Sept. 21st because we’re gonna be out in Cali the last week in September. Regardless, as Mary told our landlord Keay, one too many homicides on Girard St. for us to keep hanging around. We’ve started looking for a sublet, available immediately in a safer neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of DC. We really like what the city has to offer, but can no longer turn a blind eye to the crime happening on our doorstep. We’re still infatuated with the Mount Pleasant neighborhood that is close to our friends and accessible to our jobs. It looks like no matter where we wind up, we’ll have to pay more than the $1400 monthly rent we’d grown used to. Compared to apartments in Rochester, our expected increase will constitute robbery.
