Getting the feel of things

Ok so its officially been 1 week and a day now in Florida and so far so good.

We moved everything in and went to work painting and generally just spiffing the place up a bit, also bought a washer and dryer.

Started learning the lay of the land finding good mexican food, found that the mexican seafood is awesome (I'm getting hunrgy just thinking about it)

The apartments are real quite and there are a lot of dog people and that makes me happy, in fact I'm very suprised at how many people are ok with dogs I've never had so many strangers come up and say high to charlie.

The most annoying thing so far is the traffic, it gets packed real quick and it seems all the major express ways are toll roads and expensive toll roads at that, there seems to be a toll every 2 miles or so its completely ridiculous.

On the plus side the weather has been great so far, hasn't gotten over 80. The area has a good feel, very tropical looking which is a nice change. Charlie thinks she's on vacation, there are so many lizards and squirrels to chase and new things to sniff, she won't leave us alone about going back outside.

So about Full Sail, we went to a behind the scenes tour yesterday and got to talk with several of the Game Development instructors. They tried to scare people with annoucements of the amount of math involved and nudge them toward an art program but of course that just got me more excited. They said things that I have been saying for years like - collision detection is hard, and - you describe everything through math, and - it takes a lot of problem solving skills. Sounds like fun to me.

So orientation is on the 3rd, I will definitely update then.

Here are some pictures of the apartment and stuff

Here is the office

The Kitchen/Dining room area

Check out the stone work I did that! Charles if you read this maybe you can give me some extra pointers.

Here is porch as seen from the living room

looking out from the proch

Right out side the porch.

(that darn dog)

On the Road

So it was a long, long, long trip. 1300 miles in a 26 ft penske truck with a car trailer is nerve racking to say the least. We left at about 5am on Friday and got to orlando at about 9 PM on Saturday. Each time I had to fill up the Penske truck it was at least a hundred bucks.

Also on the first morning of the trip I drop my phone in the toilet (yeah!) so it pretty much didn't work for the whole duration but it seems to be working fine now.

Forecast calls for scattered knick knacks and furniture followed by severe boxing

As the packing commences expect scattered knick knacks and random furniture placement

We go to radar for the current outlook.

As you can see all parts of the country are being hit.

Expect major delays in the "between the dining table and kitchen island" area as well as numerous slow downs in front of the TV.

Right on the heals of this we are expecting severe boxing

The local map shows the forecast for boxing in your area, expect major delays finding your old stuff again.