Ooof. I have been terribly, terribly busy during the past week, and terribly tired, and our internet connection in the new apartment still does not work. Hence the lack of updates. Depending on how long it takes us to get the cable modem to behave, there may be a lack of updates for some time. So, here's the short outline version of the past week:

• In spite of out really not having planned things out sufficiently, in spite of the movers coming a day later than originally scheduled, in spite of our really having accumulated far too much crap in our old apartment, and in spite of our repeatedly running out of boxes, tape, and bubble wrap, we got the contents of our old apartment packed and safely moved to the new apartment.


• The new apartment has an awesome master bathtub. The new apartment has a master bathroom. And an upstairs bathroom. And a downstairs bathroom. Yes, three people can pee simultaneously in this apartment. Or they could if the downstairs toilet hadn't ceased functioning within nanoseconds of our taking possession of the place.


• Final Fantasy X-2 is fun. Haven't really played enough to judge it overall as a game. More thoughts will undoubtedly follow later.


• My goal is to get everything unpacked in time to have a few friends over for a pre-Return of the King screening of the extended versions of Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. Hey, everyone's got to have a goal.


• Work is barrelling along. We are printing ungodly numbers of manuals, and my boss assures me that sometime soon all of this will slow down and we will have time to breathe.


• San Jose geography is weird. To get to the new apartment from downtown San Jose, you take 280 South -- and end up going North. On 680. Streets change names like they're in the witness protection program. Capitol Ave. is Great Mall Parkway is also Tasman Drive. I keep finding myself at intersections of roads I would have sworn were parallel. I think this explains a lot of the difference between San Jose and Berkeley - the sections of a Berkeleyan's brain that are devoted to political activism are all occupied by driving directions in a San Jose native's brain.


• Speaking of which, what do you call someone who lives in San Jose? A San Josean? A San Joser? A San Jositan? A Cisco Networking Engineer?

Gotta go. Catch up with you later!