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Well, we got all moved in.

I'll give a shout-out to Get A Move On Inc, the moving company I used. It took an hour and a half to get loaded and unloaded, and cost less than $200.

I'm very tired from yardwork; I haven't mowed a yard in four or five years. Odin helped by running to all the patches I hadn't got to and eating the grass. Maybe he really is half horse.

He tried to go after a squirrel today and was very surprised to see it scamper up the tree and disappear. I tried to explain that if he wanted to catch it it'd have to be elderly, sick, and on a walker with a leg missing, and even then he might catch it.

Suki the kitty is enjoying all the windows; the apartment only had two, both on the east side, so there wasn't as many viewing ports for her to maintain surveillance on her domain. She sits in the windows and balefully watches the birds twitter and fly, thinking "If only I were out there, I'd get me some din-din". She occasionally sleeps in the sun to recharge her solar-powered tummy cells (hey, what other good explanation is there for cats sleeping in the sun?)

I still have many, many boxes to unpack, but the worst is over.

In other news, I have had a very significant loss of hearing over the last five or six months. 20dB in the higher ranges, not my usual loss area. I am waiting to hear from Vocational Rehab on what can be done. This is of course causing significant problems at work, but they're working with me pretty well on that. My loss is considered moderate-to-severe. There's no noticeable rate of decline, it drops, but at different degrees, so I have no idea how much longer I will have with hearing. An incentive to learn sign language!

Well, I needs must get to McDonalds. I hear they have a huge burger out now called the third pounder. Jay Leno said that's because you need to pound your chest three times to get your heart restarted after eating it.