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[fflo]

Tonight's the first evening in the new place with any significant chunk o' time for starting to unpack. I'm hoping we can have an operating kitchen before long. Then establishing some organization to the living room furniture, then doing a load of laundry.

Still love the house. It rocks. No more grungy dirty wall-to-wall dustcatching ugliness! Bathroom on the same level as bedroom! Cricket sounds and gentle, mottled sun through the trees in the a.m.! Windows that almost all open!

On the down side, the shower stall isn't exactly roomy for the superwomon. But the hot water lasts longer than 4 minutes! And if we want to, we can tear it out and replace it!

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[groovesinorbit]

And if we want to, we can tear it out and replace it!

That is the best part, eh?

If it's any unpacking consolation, we still have about 600 boxes of books left to unpack after 3 1/2 months. (that would be on that to-do list of mine that isn't getting done) Oh, and we still need to organize the basement.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Do you literally have 600-ish boxes of books?? I think we may have it down to under 100. Pretty sure we do, in fact.

[groovesinorbit]

I wish. No, we're down to about a dozen unpacked, and maybe a total of a few dozen. Bookbuying slacked off quite a bit in the years of Pagosa poverty, although this was balanced out by our re-discovery of the joys of a good library. Perhaps now that the loan is finally official (!), buying of books and cds may begin again (this, of course, after we get the cars registered in VT and reinsured, and inventory for the shop restocked, etc. There's always something) Ooh, and we may even buy a tv that was built more recently than the 1980s! That's very high on the list, too.

[groovesinorbit]

The tv is especially "eh, whatever" cuz where we live we get one station. But a new one's on the list cuz it would be nice to have something bigger (that actually showed the right colors all the time) to watch movies on.

[groovesinorbit]

The compromises we make, eh? I doubt you'll be permanently tainted, and cable modems are cool. Perhaps you can come up with some purification ritual or something. ; )

We haven't had cable since living in Oakland which would be 1989. Just watching movies and living off the kindness of friends sending us tapes.

Oops. We did have cable when we first moved to Mass. for a week. The landlord hadn't turned his off. But the cable company found out and took it away. No great loss, really.

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Hey, we should try plugging our TV into the cable at the house! That worked for the last few months we were in the last Balto. apt.

I'm a shameful TV addict, no doubt about it. Not having cable (since Kansas, and before that in only 2 apartments out of 6 in Baltimore, including the accidental partial cable mentioned above) hasn't necessarily meant that I don't watch way too much of it. It's just crappier TV and with a fuzzy picture.

In fact I think I watched less when we did have cable. Many many channels, harder to find something you really would like to see, a higher standard of what I'd sit in front of? I dunno. We've actually thought about succumbing at this house. Partly because of curiosity about all the queer TV on cable---or queer-ish TV.

You probably don't know, PiJ, with only a channel or two for so long, how much free TV has gone over to infomercials. Especially late at night, when I'm most wont to stare at the thing. No more late movies. I guess it started with Reagan, who also got the ball rolling on allowing more commercials per hour.

Hell in a handcart.

Politically TV is debilitating because you see what the general population is watching and realize how nigh-on impossible it is to counteract that current. But if you aren't monitoring mass media to some extent, can you fully know what you're up against?

Not to defend the vile habit---in the least. I sometimes wish I were a smoker instead.

Well, maybe not a smoker.

[groovesinorbit]

You probably don't know, PiJ, with only a channel or two for so long, how much free TV has gone over to infomercials.

Oh yes, well aware. Anytime R & I have stayed in motels or someone else's house, it's brought to our attention. We actually used to get excited about overnight trips, cuz, wow, we'd be able to watch tv at the motel. That wore off a while ago. (although that's how we got to see Cal's last game)

No more late movies.

A total shame. One of the reasons R & I love MST3K so much is cuz we were both big creature feature late night movie fans as kids. All that kind of stuff is gone now.

*sigh*