moving update

Done:

• Reservation for moving people to park a big-ass trailer in front of my house for two days.


• Reservation for hideously expensive car rental*.


• Plans for storage facility (which I can't actually reserve until 2 weeks in advance). Storage facilitiy reconned to be sure of being able to get said big-ass trailer to needed location.


• Plans for health insurance to cover 3 months before OHIP eligibility.

Still to do:

• See if I need to do any kind of medical release stuff with Kaiser as I did with my dentist.


• Acquire sufficient boxes and packing material. The large television I got from the_misha and tiggrrl is going to be especially Chinese-interesting. (Think about hitting up, like, a Circuit City or something for a big enough box.)


• Extract letters of reference from last two supervisors.


• Continue transferring MST3K to DVD to avoid having to take tons of VHS tapes along with me (progressing pretty well on this - up to about 3/5, maybe even 2/3 complete?).


• Finish revising resume.


• Check past credit card bill to see when to cancel dial-up ISP account to avoid being billed for a month I won't use.


• Take sufficient money out of Commonwealth account and put it in Wells Fargo, where it's accessible to me in Canada. (How am I going to handle the bulkier transfer involved in setting up my Canadian bank accounts?)

Hmm... nothing else coming to mind at the moment. Sure there are probably other things escaping me without the checklist thing in front of me...

* - It really gets up there when you rent for a month. I dunno how soon I'm going to be able to buy a car, see, but I need something in which to get around while applying for jobs and all. And in the words of the Arrogant Worms, "screw the GST"! The rate by itself is bad enough without tacking an extra $107.83 in PST/GST on it. (sailin' down to Saskatoon; the terror of the seas...)

moving update

Done:

• Reservation for moving people to park a big-ass trailer in front of my house for two days.


• Reservation for hideously expensive car rental*.


• Plans for storage facility (which I can't actually reserve until 2 weeks in advance). Storage facilitiy reconned to be sure of being able to get said big-ass trailer to needed location.


• Plans for health insurance to cover 3 months before OHIP eligibility.

Still to do:

• See if I need to do any kind of medical release stuff with Kaiser as I did with my dentist.


• Acquire sufficient boxes and packing material. The large television I got from the_misha and tiggrrl is going to be especially Chinese-interesting. (Think about hitting up, like, a Circuit City or something for a big enough box.)


• Extract letters of reference from last two supervisors.


• Continue transferring MST3K to DVD to avoid having to take tons of VHS tapes along with me (progressing pretty well on this - up to about 3/5, maybe even 2/3 complete?).


• Finish revising resume.


• Check past credit card bill to see when to cancel dial-up ISP account to avoid being billed for a month I won't use.


• Take sufficient money out of Commonwealth account and put it in Wells Fargo, where it's accessible to me in Canada. (How am I going to handle the bulkier transfer involved in setting up my Canadian bank accounts?)

Hmm... nothing else coming to mind at the moment. Sure there are probably other things escaping me without the checklist thing in front of me...

* - It really gets up there when you rent for a month. I dunno how soon I'm going to be able to buy a car, see, but I need something in which to get around while applying for jobs and all. And in the words of the Arrogant Worms, "screw the GST"! The rate by itself is bad enough without tacking an extra $107.83 in PST/GST on it. (sailin' down to Saskatoon; the terror of the seas...)

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Does anyone know why this happens in Component?



If I look at the actual user's journal, which is in some other style, this phenomenon does not appear. (Switching to IE does not fix, so I figure it's something mucked in the css?) I assume there's nothing to be done about it other than to switch styles?

since tyrsalvia asked if I was having a going-away party:

This is probably going to sound unnecessarily vain, because I don't think anyone would want to put out this much effort anyway, but because the overall stuation (to wit: leaving the country, without any plans for any "goodbye" events) is one where people in general tend to do these kinds of things, I am making my official statement now:

Please, nobody organize any surprise parties. I honestly hate them. I don't understand what is OK about tricking someone, making them look like a dumb fool ("ha ha, they didn't figure it out!"), and embarrassing them in a group when they are supposed to be your friend. Perhaps from your (general you) perspective this is being a bad sport or too sensitive, but it's how I feel. I would definitely be upset at whoever instigated such a thing, possibly would break down and cry, and might even flounce out in irritation, depending on cosmic rays and the phase of the moon. So don't go there. (This goes for the receiving end as well, all y'all in Canada.)

Posting this makes me all squirmy with "OMG, what would even make her think we'd want to? Who the hell does she think she is? Get a load of this self-aggrandizing crap!" kinds of feelings, but they're ("we're"? --since I've been asked my preferences on everything from cake filling to gift ideas) doing one at work and I know I probably would if I were on the other end of such a thing, so I'm just sayin'.

(edit: In case it's ambiguous, I'm referring to a non-secret party in the last paragraph, and that's the sort of party I'm saying I might myself be likely to take part in if tables were turned. Realized it sounded perhaps like I was being a hypocrite.)

since tyrsalvia asked if I was having a going-away party:

This is probably going to sound unnecessarily vain, because I don't think anyone would want to put out this much effort anyway, but because the overall stuation (to wit: leaving the country, without any plans for any "goodbye" events) is one where people in general tend to do these kinds of things, I am making my official statement now:

Please, nobody organize any surprise parties. I honestly hate them. I don't understand what is OK about tricking someone, making them look like a dumb fool ("ha ha, they didn't figure it out!"), and embarrassing them in a group when they are supposed to be your friend. Perhaps from your (general you) perspective this is being a bad sport or too sensitive, but it's how I feel. I would definitely be upset at whoever instigated such a thing, possibly would break down and cry, and might even flounce out in irritation, depending on cosmic rays and the phase of the moon. So don't go there. (This goes for the receiving end as well, all y'all in Canada.)

Posting this makes me all squirmy with "OMG, what would even make her think we'd want to? Who the hell does she think she is? Get a load of this self-aggrandizing crap!" kinds of feelings, but they're ("we're"? --since I've been asked my preferences on everything from cake filling to gift ideas) doing one at work and I know I probably would if I were on the other end of such a thing, so I'm just sayin'.

(edit: In case it's ambiguous, I'm referring to a non-secret party in the last paragraph, and that's the sort of party I'm saying I might myself be likely to take part in if tables were turned. Realized it sounded perhaps like I was being a hypocrite.)

total eclipse of the... er, sun

Solar eclipse tomorrow. Yet again not visible in my part of the world. Browsing through the other eclipse data on http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEcat/SEdecade2001.html (scroll down to scroll down to "Ten Year Tables of Solar Eclipses" to see data for other decades, although they only have the nifty animations for years 2001-2050), it seems there haven't been (won't be) many that were (will be) visible in California, compared to other places. I wonder what it is about the arrangement of the bodies that makes eclipses more common in the south Pacific and like that.

Although there were a number of eclipses (mostly partial) in my lifetime, so far I've only seen one that I have any memory of. The mental picture is of being on the kindergarten playground, and things going dim sort of as if dense clouds were obscuring the sun. Happily, there is an eclipse that fits the bill for my being able to possibly remember it as described, so I'm probably not just hallucinating.

total eclipse of the... er, sun

Solar eclipse tomorrow. Yet again not visible in my part of the world. Browsing through the other eclipse data on http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEcat/SEdecade2001.html (scroll down to scroll down to "Ten Year Tables of Solar Eclipses" to see data for other decades, although they only have the nifty animations for years 2001-2050), it seems there haven't been (won't be) many that were (will be) visible in California, compared to other places. I wonder what it is about the arrangement of the bodies that makes eclipses more common in the south Pacific and like that.

Although there were a number of eclipses (mostly partial) in my lifetime, so far I've only seen one that I have any memory of. The mental picture is of being on the kindergarten playground, and things going dim sort of as if dense clouds were obscuring the sun. Happily, there is an eclipse that fits the bill for my being able to possibly remember it as described, so I'm probably not just hallucinating.