I did my Mavs gear shopping today, and assuming I can find a way to get it back to Seattle with only my backpack as luggage, I’ll have two shorts and a (small) flag for an office decoration. Also, I determined that apparently I wasn’t as bright as I thought, and my copy of OOT 3D actually did get shipped to Seattle (or maybe I anticipated the shipping delay and did it on purpose?). Regardless, Amazon modified their delivery date to today, and according to Sinan, the game is now sitting on my bed. Oh well, if it was down here it would just be a distraction that I definitely wouldn’t need, so I’ll just be content with how things worked out.

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Since I’m still pushing for Vegas at Thanksgiving, the next time I see myself back in Dallas would be Christmas barring any really weird, unforeseen (obviously, since I’m not seeing it now) circumstances. Hopefully if anything tech wise goes wrong I can handle that remotely; I should actually probably test doing Remote Assistance on my dad’s laptop just to see if that might work. I have no previous experience with that feature of Windows so I’d be surprised if it actually worked problem free the first time, but it may be something worth considering until I can make my dad buy a nettop for his office to use at home instead of his work laptop.

So, so long, Dallas. I figure I’ll be back living here at some point in the future, even if that point might not be visible at the present time. We’ll have to see just how long it takes for me to consider Seattle to be “home”; my guess is that it won’t be that quick, but a drawn out gradual process over the next year or two.

I’ve decided how I’m going to categorize my posts once I move: I’m going to make a new category called “Personal – Seattle” that everything will be put into for as long as I live there. The current “Personal” category I’ll rename to “Personal – Dallas”, and any future trips back here will be in a new “Dallas” subcategory of “Trips”. I know that you probably don’t really care, and in reality I don’t even care that much, but when I get around to making the changes this weekend, it will be nice to have my ideas written down for reference in case I forget. It’s such a complicated change, you know, there’s a big chance that could happen.

Tomorrow will be my last day to go in and work with Mr. McDonald, and then on Friday my car will be shipped. Yeah, my car actually wasn’t being transported by the same people today, but it ended up not being a problem for my computer as they just loaded it up in the van as I had wrapped it up. I even got a comment about how well wrapped it and my monitor were which I would have sworn was sarcasm (since they weren’t by any stretch of the imagination) if it wasn’t for the fact that the mover said it completely sincerely.

The packing took a long time (close to 5 hours), but it managed to all get done. With the exception of my computer stuff, everything is now in boxes that will be taken away tomorrow morning. My computer won’t actually be in a box since they didn’t have a size big enough to fit the dimensions of my tower, so the genius plan for that is to just ship it in my car. If my car wasn’t big enough to hold my computer, then I think we might have had a slight problem on our hands.

Most of today was spent getting all of my consoles back into their boxes and placing stuff out on the floor so that it would be very easy for me to direct exactly what would and would not be getting packed. Effectively, this let’s me keep using the closets for storage of stuff that’s going to stay here and not need to worry about identifying individual items for the movers. Easier for me, easier for them, and hopefully more efficient/quicker also.

I’m still not sure what day the movers will be coming to take all my stuff, but I can hopefully take that to mean tomorrow isn’t the day. I’ll probably start putting all of my game consoles up in their boxes soon in order for transport, but it’s nice to not have to worry about packing everything. I simply point and say what does and doesn’t go, and the moving company takes care of the rest. Yeah, I seriously don’t mind letting Microsoft handle everything at all.

Today I also went over to Warren’s house (yes, I realize that yesterday I went back to my anonymous people references) in an attempt to move his iTunes library from his desktop to his laptop. Apparently, Apple doesn’t think that’s something people need an easy way to do. My initial solution was to copy all of the songs to my portable hard drive and transfer them that way, but the initial time estimate on that was going to be four hours long. So, the solution I ultimately got working (or at least assume I did since I never got a call from Warren saying it didn’t work) was to share the directory on the desktop and just have him copy everything over on their network. Not the cleanest solution in the world, but it’s at least a solution. Apple, might I just throw a hint your way and suggest you solve this issue by making it “just work”.

Tomorrow my grandparents are coming out here for lunch, but aside from that, my day is pretty much like any other. I do need to run down to HP in order to work on someone’s computer, so I’ll probably do that sometime in the mid-afternoon. I also need to work on backing up all of my data on this computer sooner or later so I can disassemble it into pieces and prepare it for transport up to Seattle. The disassembling may or may not be truly necessary, but the backup most definitely is. Ideally once I get up to Seattle and reform my technology world, I’ll have a much better backup system in place than I do right now (which is none at all except for the occasional burned DVD).

So, regardless of if you want to count today or not, I have a single digit number of days left in Dallas. This number is either 8 or 9, but the fact remains that it’s still very small as opposed to back in November. With this last 8th or 9th day in Dallas, I headed down to HP for my likely near final time and then came home and make progress in Twilight Princess. It’s extremely unlikely that I’ll beat the game before all my stuff is taken away next week, but if I ignore doing other things that I need to do this weekend and concentrate solely on it, I could see myself getting most of the way through. Actually, I can’t really remember how many dungeons there are in it total, but I’m pretty sure I remember it being more than Wind Waker. Just so I can stay with the Zelda theme after all my fun stuff gets taken away, I’ll probably pop Minish Cap into my DS and play it again since it’s probably my favorite handheld iteration of the series ever.