New Room A Couple Doors Down

Sadly, I'm stuck living at home for the time being and wish to move to warmer climate. Southern Cali would be ideal for me; however anywhere that doesn't require long johns or under armour is ideal. To find some comfort and privacy, I've decided to move a couple of rooms down to the other side of the house. Basically I've gotten as far as possible from my parents, they are in one corner of the house and I am in the opposite corner. Costed me a whopping $1600 to move to the new room! Was it worth it? ABSOLUTELY!

Here are some pics of the new room. Still got to add some decor to the room, but I'm feeling a bit lazy and will complete this project later. Click on picture to enlarge photo.

Networking Frustrations

So this weekend was mainly spent on trying to network ethernet cables up and through the walls into to the overhead attic. It seemed like it was going to be an easy task, but after encountering the first box that had to be removed, discovered that this would not be the case. Bright lights shooting out of one of the fuse boxes, my friend and I jump away from the box. So here lies problem number two, which ended up blowing out the light in the room (going to have to call out an electrician to repair that).

I was praying that the other room would be easier, but let's face it things in life are never what they seem. Turns out that the wall we were trying to drop the wire down, had insulation padding all along the wall which made it appear next to impossible. My friend brought this fishing rod type of a tool to guide the wire down along the wall, but it ended up getting stuck.

Next day, went to Home Depot bright and early to pick up a drill bit. Two hours later I was home free, routing the wiring through the wall. I was even able to get the jammed fishing rod tool out of the wall. Big thanks to DC for helping me with this crazy project! Well tomorrow will be the official move into the new room, woo hoo!

IT Crowd

Complete 180 degrees my life has turned from never watching the tube to watching practically every show that comes out. There is warrant for this drastic change, mainly due to 5 shows: Everybody Hates Chris, The Office, My Name Is Earl, Lost season 2, 24 season 5, and the newcomer of them all The IT Crowd (recommended by DC, thanks man).

I got to give props to The IT Crowd, they really deliver the milk-squirting-out-of-nostrils type of laugh. Chris O' Dowd plays a character named Roy, who is one of the IT "drudgeons" that work in the basement. I recently watched a black comedy called Festival, that starred Mr. O'Dowd as a struggling comedian competing to win at the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. He played the role well by delivering his usual outstanding dramatized comedic performance.

Moss, who is Roy's sidekick in The IT Crowd is played by Richard Ayoade, who also had a small role in the movie Festival, as one of the judges at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. With the use of his social ineptness and Roy's cynical wittiness, they make a great team ("The A Team", for those of you who's watched the first episode) on this new hit sitcom!

Naked Bodies!

Yea that title probably got your attention! Well it's true, the Bodies exhibit down by South Street Seaport in downtown New York does have human bodies on display completely clothless. Not only are they clothless, but skinless. Their complete innards including arteries, nerves, muscles, fat, bones, and organs are on display. These are real people who have donated their body to be on display. It was an interesting exhibit, however felt like I was stuck in another anatomy and physiology class. Interesting fact: a woman's brain is 0.5% larger than their male counterpart. Maybe this is why women always feel they're right on every matter/issue possible in the universe! I enjoyed the arteries exhibit the most, arteries were stained with dye and suspended in a jar on display in a dark room.


FINALLY A SNOWSTORM!
Well I'm not a big fan of snow, but I figure if it's going to be cold and winter like, then it might as well snow. To the right are pics of the snow on Saturday evening and man did we get it this time, with a whopping 2 feet of snow. So I got up the following morning to plow my lengthy driveway. I started the snowblow machine and get through about couple strips done behind my car, then all I hear next is gluh gluh shh. The snowblower ran outta gas and too lazy to refill it, I decided to kick and run over the remaining snow that blocked me from venturing out onto the swirvy roads.

I drove up to the city to drop a friend off that needed to be back in Boston to make it in time for an 8AM class on Monday. It wasn't too bad driving into the city, since many people were staying off the roads. Unfortunately, Greyhound felt this way as well and suspended all buses heading up to Boston until 8AM the following morning. Luckily for my friend, she was able to catch a bus in Chinatown. Guess which bus line this was? That's right, the FUNG WAH! Props to Fung Wah for working in tough conditions.

Later that evening, after dropping off my friend, made an executive decision to go play in this snow by hitting the slopes at mountain creek. Suprisingly it was not as powdery as I thought the mountains would be after receiving a hefty amount of snow. However, it was good to get the BIG 2 hours of downhill runs in no less!