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Jul. 8th, 2011
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Jul. 8th, 2011 11:09 am1. Final loan approval officially given, so closing on the 13th can go through and I no longer have to panic about the fact that our lease runs out on the 31st.
2. Movers scheduled on the 20th.
3. We went through the kitchen and tossed* approximately 1/3 of the stuff we own, so, yay.
4. Going to look at furniture and food trucks tonight at some sort of weekend-long thing celebrating some place opening and being held in someplace else's parking lot. We're there fr the food trucks, really.
5. Cats to new vet, which was awesome as they did not have to sedate Nefer when she was examined, as the other vets have had to do for years. Much, much happier with these vets. They specialize in cats only. Their website design is ca. 1998, but that sort of adds to their charm.
6. Cats also booked in to new vet for boarding Tuesday afternoon the 19th and pickup Thursday the 21st during moving as they're closed on Wednesdays, but this gives us time to set up the house without worrying about the cats, who will be wigged out anyway at the new place.
* For values of "put in garden room where 1-800-Got-Junk will come, look at it, and charge us approximately $45435345345345435.85 to take it all away and we will GLADLY PAY IT so that WE DO NOT HAVE TO MOVE IT." No, we have no interest in renting a truck and taking it to the dump/Goodwill/whatever ourselves, as (a) this is TEXAS in the SUMMER and it is FOUR BILLION DEGREES out there and (b) we have JOBS and are both LOW ON VACATION that we need to carefully mange for things like being present at the new house when various services are hooked up.
2. Movers scheduled on the 20th.
3. We went through the kitchen and tossed* approximately 1/3 of the stuff we own, so, yay.
4. Going to look at furniture and food trucks tonight at some sort of weekend-long thing celebrating some place opening and being held in someplace else's parking lot. We're there fr the food trucks, really.
5. Cats to new vet, which was awesome as they did not have to sedate Nefer when she was examined, as the other vets have had to do for years. Much, much happier with these vets. They specialize in cats only. Their website design is ca. 1998, but that sort of adds to their charm.
6. Cats also booked in to new vet for boarding Tuesday afternoon the 19th and pickup Thursday the 21st during moving as they're closed on Wednesdays, but this gives us time to set up the house without worrying about the cats, who will be wigged out anyway at the new place.
* For values of "put in garden room where 1-800-Got-Junk will come, look at it, and charge us approximately $45435345345345435.85 to take it all away and we will GLADLY PAY IT so that WE DO NOT HAVE TO MOVE IT." No, we have no interest in renting a truck and taking it to the dump/Goodwill/whatever ourselves, as (a) this is TEXAS in the SUMMER and it is FOUR BILLION DEGREES out there and (b) we have JOBS and are both LOW ON VACATION that we need to carefully mange for things like being present at the new house when various services are hooked up.
Aaaand more
Jul. 8th, 2011 12:59 pmJust spent time trawling Angie's List for people who can install window laminate* and exterminators.**
Also, over the past few days, have discovered evidence that my maternal bio-grandmother (i.e. the one that died a year after I was born, not the one I know who is my granddad's second wife) shaved quite a few years off her age. XD Mom told me that her marriage to my grandfather was not looked on with favor by his family because she was ten years older and (shock! horror!) divorced. Her gravestone has her birth date as 1918, but I managed to find her in the 1920 U.S. census as 9 years old and in the 1930 census as 19. No marriage/divorce records yet, as pre-1966 Texas records were kept at county level and not state, so it's going to be harder to find them if I don't want to call up every county she might possibly have been in and ask.
* Security laminate. Will stop smash-and-grab people from kicking in a window, grabbing a TV or PlayStation, and running, although won't stop those who will kick in a door or pro thieves who plan stuff out. But will provide some peace of mind.
** Hopefully new house has no pest problems. We plan on treating it prophylactically so in case anything comes over in or on our stuff, it is met with instant chemical death.
Also, over the past few days, have discovered evidence that my maternal bio-grandmother (i.e. the one that died a year after I was born, not the one I know who is my granddad's second wife) shaved quite a few years off her age. XD Mom told me that her marriage to my grandfather was not looked on with favor by his family because she was ten years older and (shock! horror!) divorced. Her gravestone has her birth date as 1918, but I managed to find her in the 1920 U.S. census as 9 years old and in the 1930 census as 19. No marriage/divorce records yet, as pre-1966 Texas records were kept at county level and not state, so it's going to be harder to find them if I don't want to call up every county she might possibly have been in and ask.
* Security laminate. Will stop smash-and-grab people from kicking in a window, grabbing a TV or PlayStation, and running, although won't stop those who will kick in a door or pro thieves who plan stuff out. But will provide some peace of mind.
** Hopefully new house has no pest problems. We plan on treating it prophylactically so in case anything comes over in or on our stuff, it is met with instant chemical death.
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Jul. 8th, 2011 03:51 pmFreaky illusion!
Essentially, if you keep your eyes trained on the cross in the center of the screen so you're using your peripheral vision to see the faces, the succession of rapidly flashed perfectly normal faces will seem grotesquely exaggerated. There's a link to the abstract of the paper about the effect.
Essentially, if you keep your eyes trained on the cross in the center of the screen so you're using your peripheral vision to see the faces, the succession of rapidly flashed perfectly normal faces will seem grotesquely exaggerated. There's a link to the abstract of the paper about the effect.