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(and wirelessed!) The electrician has come and gone. And while he’ll be back, it should be just to put a space-saving breaker in my breaker box to split out the circuit that feeds the computer UPS. And so, we’re taken care of. In the two bedrooms upstairs, we have 2 data ports, one phone and one cable TV. We have 3 data and 1 cable in the den (that reminds me, I should go ahead and pre-order my Xbox 360), 2 data in the living room, one in the entry hallway for the wireless access point, and each of us has 3 data lines and one phone line for our desks in our basement office space.

Before we moved in, I had called a couple of electricians for estimates — I want to run data wiring (and phone and cable) to many of the rooms. Said electricians came by the house, eventually, one called me back and gave me a price and a schedule. It seemed pretty reasonable, though later than I wanted. I’d assumed they could have it done before we moved in. Oh well. So, an electrician showed up on Monday.

Bush quotes that got under my skin today: “Iran is ruled by men who suppress liberty at home and spread terror across the world.” This, from a man who suppresses liberty at home and spreads terror across the world! NPR: “Bush criticized the electoral process [in Iran] saying it is designed to keep power in the hands of the few.” AC wonders who was the last US president that wasn’t a millionaire.

We’re in out new house! First major shout-outs to our moving crew. Thanks so much Laura & Doug, Rebecca, Todd, “Upper Body” Bill, Beth, Mike, Megan & Ian, and of course, mom & Tom. You guys made what has always been (for me) a long and irritating process, significantly shorter and less irritating. Carolyn and I genuinelyappreciate your help. My mom and her man, Tom, spent yesterday cleaning our old place.

Carolyn and I are moving tomorrow to our new home. I’m taking apart my office now. I’ll be (relatively) out of touch the next few days at least. (DSL is not scheduled to be installed in the new place until the 13th!) If you want to reach me, best to call me. News of the painting and moving when I’m settled anew.

Today I painted Cider Toddy, Midnight Bonfireand primer. Yesterday, I painted Midnight Bonfireand primer. Monday, I painted primer. Today marks the last day of Chocolate Milk. Chocolate Milkis what had been on the walls in the entry-way, living room and dining room in our new house. I think I described it as Salmon in an earlier post. It still seems a little too pink to be Chocolate Milk, but it is probably a little too brown to be Salmon.

As I think I mentioned in the Life More Extraordinarypost, we declined to (try) to learn the gender of our upcoming offspring. I’m also pretty sure that Carolyn read that generally, men prefer to have boys. Not me. I hope she’s a girl. That said, if she decides she wants to be a boy, that’s fine too. I’ll do my best to teach my child cross-gender skills. She will learn to fix toilets and ride motorcycles.

Well, one it, at least. We’ve closed. We have the house. It was, all things considered really easy. We met the realtor at her office and she drove us down to the title company where the closing was. We had quite a crowd there at the beginning. The seller, her daughter, and her realtor. The bank representative, the two of us with our realtor and the closing agent. After the first few batches of papers were signed, it thinned out a bit as the seller left.

It’s not that I’ve meant not to blog. For about the first week or so of my blog absence, we were traveling. First to Philadelphia. There we met up with Ca’s parents and went up to NYC to celebrate the engagement of Carolyn’s brother John to his girlfriend Rika. Then out to Champaign, IL where we got a brief driving tour of the campus by my uncle Cam who’s undergrad and law degrees both came from there.

On our way out the door this morning to get an ultrasound and have a prenatal appointment we got a phone call. The call was the OB/GYN canceling our prenatal appointment. Some other woman had the audacity to go into labor and take our midwife away during OUR appointment time. The nerve of some people, I tell you! We did, however, still have the ultrasound appointment. It’s a little bit early (19 weeks instead of ~21-22 weeks) because we declined the triple screen, and because of our impending travel.