Tomorrow I move to the Southside… finally. When we first signed the lease I envisioned a nice, slow, “as necessary” preparation to the actual move (since there’s a month of overlap on our current apartment’s lease). Then I realized that the new place is better in almost every facet that an apartment can be, so I decided we should just move the earliest we could, instead of having to wait half the month. Soo, I’ve been packing the last 3 or 4 days straight, with nice breaks amongst friends to keep my sanity.

As it is, most of the apartment is now in boxes, excluding mainly the kitchen. But if somehow some stuff isn’t ready for the move tomorrow morning, it can be moved later because of the overlap. Two nights ago we went to a small house party and I was lucky enough to try a Caipirinha, a drink known by all in Brazil. It was decent, having a kind of feel like both Tequila and Vodka, with a nice tang to even it out; and it was strong :).  It’s nice being able to relax with friends who are down to earth, easy to get along with, and full of good stories. I get most of July to bum around before I start my job, but I have many (not so lofty) things I’d like to do before then; hopefully it will be more fun and less work.

Tonight I’m stopping by a friend’s housewarming party (also in the Southside), as well as hopefully stopping by the Creative Treehouse in Bellevue. iJustine is supposed to be there, so perhaps I’ll get to finally meet her. Either way, that’s near my old stomping grounds (well, where I grew up anyhow), so I like to see that interesting things are still taking root in those parts.

So yesterday I spent all day on campus working on my project. Bad News: I’ve been using benchmarks that run way longer than is necessary. Good News: I’m now using ones that finish in reasonable time periods. I accidentally ran all of the small ones last night, but since they all completed successfully under the several configurations that’s an ok sign. Anyways, after I finally came home around 9:30, we went out for drinks in Oakland.

Since I hadn’t eaten in like 7 hours, I decided to get half price at Mad Mex; after drinking half of a 220z margarita on an empty stomach. I was fine, I just ended up being too full to drink much the rest of the night. After Mex, we went to the “new” P-Cafe. I call it new because it just reopened and it looks totally different. It’s like, swank, now. I’m curious to see what they do with the second floor since that used to just be a part of the place to listen to bands and find some breathing room occasionally. They had decent prices on stuff though, where everyone except me had Dogfish Head 90min IPAs for $4, which is pretty awesome. I had a Bar Harbor Blueberry Ale since I hadn’t tried that brewery’s version yet, and it was pretty good I must say.

So I have finally gotten new hosting for this domain (after several free years of decent service from 1and1). Since WordPress is provided by DreamHost, I figured I’d give it a try since it’s supposed to be one of the best pieces of software out there for blogging. And if there’s one thing I like, it’s toying with software.