welcome to awesome town

i'm moved in to the new chez wintermute. spent the weekend painting one of the rooms; thanks to having the chief and chief chick help us, dr. w and i finished it in about two hours. then i mowed the lawn for the first time. the whole thing felt a bit like the scene in old school where the students are trying to get will ferrell to bring out frank the tank, and he tries to decline, saying he has a big weekend, and that the next day may include a stop at the home depot. i felt very suburban. i like our place, but the hood seems a bit too quiet. our neighbors are super-friendly (almost to the point of weirding dr. w out).

also spent some time in part of the local downtown area. there's several square blocks that are known in civic engineering / urban planning circles as 'planned development.' i get it, it beats sprawl and strip malls, but it just feels so manufactured. every single store is a name brand. there's chipotle! oh, and look, cold stone for dessert!

even the 'big lawn' is artificial turf.

the chief started calling it awesome town, in homage to a great andy samburg sketch from the lonely island.

the movers just left. almost everything made it, saves four metals plates essential for assembling our bed. of all things. fukstix. our box spring almost didn't quite, as well. the movers actually stopped after trying for 20 minutes, shaking their head and saying it couldn't be done. i took this as a personal challenge. after 40 more minutes of turning the box spring every angle it could go (and even surveying the windows and the attic for alternate routes), we got it up here. albeit, the box spring is a bit bent in places.

welcome to awesome town.