I havent been able to do much posting in the last week or so due to closing on a house and moving in; close on a friday, moved on saturday.

Woke up friday morning went for a final walk through of the house, of course our flaky agent was late, as per usual, even though she suggested the time of the walk though… Almost ran out of gas on the way to the lawyers offices for the closing. After about 300 signatures and initials, keys, deeps and such were passed across the table. For months, MONTHS,  I have been waiting for the moment so i could finally let both sets of agents know how true incompetent and useless they are, how close to screwing the pooch they came on this deal and in the end No one got anything of worth out of their stalling, hemming and hawing and general mis-communication and unprofessional-ism ; But as im sure they are wll trained in avoided the rebuke they had managed to slip out of the closing moments before the actual finalization of the deal. FUCKERS! At any rate, after the closing car trunks and such were emptied into the basement of new house and then went back the apt to finish packing. Unfortunately Modern warFare 2 came out just days before and took up a bit of time, that should have been dedicated to packing. Blame XBOX.

At 8:30 AM  the I&iPhone rang and the movers announced they were on the way but would be a little late, GREAT, i was groggy and could barely maintain my side of the 30 second conversation. Grabbed coffee quickly and surveyed the apt, Fuck the movers are not gonna be stoked on the amount of crap there was to be moved. They arrived. And Immediately freaked out and tried to old gaffe, this is more then what you suggested there was and thus the estimate is way to low. “We could call the office, but…”, was the give away. Boom West African living to the rescue; Game on! The crux of the situation was they wanted more money, and they framed it by saying if i agreed to tip them well they could avoid calling into the office claiming the larger job and thus individually could make more money and hide it from the boss while saving me what the elevated cost would be. Several issues immediately came to mind; first, I’ll not be jacked! We agreed on a an estimate and if the estimate was wrong then lets be upfront about it, however Ill not deal in beating around the bush. When you dont want to call it in, I get the impression were being shady. And in the face of Shady, Knatty stand Firm seen? you cant move I. Whats more is I have respect for anyone doing manual labor, shits hard work and under appreciated by most who dont take part in it; and as such i TIP. So i had planned on tipping my dudes, and tipping them even stronger on a job done well.
I Think i took my dudes by surprise when i made i appear as though i was happy with them using the door they came in through to exit if they were gonna have an issue. A hostage situation it would not be. So we agreed, movers get taken care of when they show up ready to work and go hard and steady until the move is done, they get taken care of well, but if they want to ask for a tip before they even done shit, we were going to have an issue. BLOODCLOT! In the end My Dudes came though like champs.

So after settling in over the weekend monday was the first day of the new commute, no more subway, commuter train for I. And shit is so much more civilized , its like night and day. this is the first drawing on the new commute. Its a much more close quarters type situation then the impersonal across the isle of the subway.