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We’re all moved into our new place now, and after a week’s worth of vacation around the moving weekend, I’m back at the office. It’s much more physically relaxing here, that’s for sure. No carrying heavy book boxes… oh -wait. I didn’t do that – the guys did that. See, I have friends… lots of them. And they all showed up of Saturday to help me move. They did a bang-up job. Really fast, too.

So – here’s to you all who helped: THANK YOU!!! (and I’ll try not to move again any time soon…)

We love the new house, and my ride into the office today was not bad at all. Only too about 15 minutes to get back to the Reston area where I’m working for a while. I even have some cool neighbors – I can walk to my friend John’s house… not that I would actually walk or anything…

We may be moved in, but we’re cetainly not settled. There are many hundreds of boxes to finish unpacking yet. My work away from work.

It’s already “begun”, but now the packing/moving begins in earnest. We have 3.5 floors in this townhouse, and we’re completely done with 1.5 of those three. We have two to go and today, I hope to finish the vast majority of those. The basement is kind of half done, but the garage isn’t touched and the only thing in my office that we’ve packed are the books. As for one floor up: I’ve packed some clothes from the bedroom and we’ve done the dining room. The two biggies remain: kitchen and bedroom.We should get those knocked out today.

I’ll be leaving the computers up and running here for the time being until I get my new Internet service up at the new place. So, you have a few more days to browse the pictures at a higher speed.

I hope you had a good one! I know we did. We spent the day downtown with some good friends and then hiked out to the Arlington Bridge to watch the fireworks. We got a hotel room and it made the day go by easier – we got to rest in the middle of the day between the touring downtown [at a fesitval and a couple of museums] and the night of fireworks.

I’ll be posting pictures once I process them. It will take some time to get through them all…

It’s gonna be a short week, this week is. Well, short for work – long for play. The 4th of July holiday falls on Wednesday, so I’ll be working Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday, Laura and I and our friends the Gregorys will venture downtown for the celebration in DC. We’ll be staying in a hotel in Arlington so we don’t have to fight the crowds too much.

We’ll be taking pictures of all that we can, of course, but the celebration in the capitol is one we’ve never yet seen even though we’ve lived here through two already.

After that, we’ll sight-see some more downtown and then head back to Reston where more packing will commence. Packing. Yuck.

I hit a “big” number on the odometer of my motorcycle yesterday: 22222. Yep, all 2s. It means the same frontwards or backwards and no matter how you shuffle it, it always comes up 22222.

Normally, that’s not an important number – in fact, it’s not really now. It just looks cool. Except for one thing: by the time I got home, it said 22224. Now THAT’S not cool.

What is important, is that I’ve had my motorcycle almost two years and I’ve put more mileage on it already than most motorcyclists put on their bike in 10 or more years. Of course, lately I’ve been only riding to the local Microsoft office which is less than two miles away… not a big mileage run, but it’ll do I suppose…