Moving On In

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So, we made the big move from Davis Sq. to Arlington over the weekend. This allowed us to completely skip out on helping Dave move, of course, but I think we paid the price; my back, hands and feet are all killing me. The mover's were awesome though, I was just amazed that 3 guys could move us so fast. They started at 8:30, and were completely done at 11. The house is a complete mess right now of course, we've got a lot of boxes left to unpack. We might be fairly close to done by the end of the week.

In other news, I see in the newspaper this morning that the US Election Assistance Commission is requesting the authority to delay federal elections from Congress. The Commission claims that the power is necessary in case there is an attack designed to "disrupt the election." Not that I'm any sort of Constitutional expert, but this might be legally possible, the only thing that seems to be required by the constitution is that the Electors all give their votes on the same day, as determined by Congress.

It seems to me that if the purpose of cancelling or delaying the election is to make sure that it is not 'disrupted', then you're not really doing the job, right? Wouldn't delaying or cancelling the election be extremely disruptive? Yes, that's a rhetorical question. I said a long time ago, that the only way that Bush would stay in office is if we didn't have an election this fall. Now that possibility seems frighteningly more possible.

Laura and I picked up the keys to our new place tonight. The back door key doesn't quite work yet. The deadbolt will only lock if the key is inserted. Its a new deadbolt, so hopefully the landlord will fix it soon! They seem like really nice people, they surprised us with a new built-in dishwasher in our apartment. I seriously did not expect that at all. However, they did throw away the washing machine we were planning on using (it was left there by the penultimate tenants), so we'll have to take a trip to buy a new one. I just hope the refrigerator doesn't go as well, as that would be a pain to replace. The new place seems really big. Sure it doesn't have anything in it yet, but I think the layout results in much more useful space. Right now we have a pretty big apartment, but there's so much wasted useless space in the kitchen and I guess would be the dining room.

Pictures of our new apartment