Well, we’ve been in Indianapolis for a month now, and what a month it’s been … Let’s do a list of highs and lows, shall we?
Cool
- Broad Ripple is an awesome neighborhood with lots of quality restaurants and bars within an easy walk.
- We love our house, even tho the air conditioner occasionally pours water all over the basement floor.
- We bought a 2001 Saturn L300 (that’s a car, for the record) for a reasonable price. It’s comfy and fun to drive.
- Charlotte managed to pass her written driving test – to get her learner’s permit – without knowing she had to take one and thus not studying for it at all!
- My friend Gabe and I have begun working on our business stuff again.
- We can play Rock Band without a crazy German dude who lives below us banging on our floor / his ceiling.
- We’ve met a bunch of cool people through various friends.
- The local gym is a fraction of the monthly cost of New York gyms.
Not So Cool
- This move was very, very expensive.
- On a related note, our old landlord is taking their sweet time sending us back the TWO MONTHS deposit that we put in.
- The car we bought immediately developed some engine problems and had to go in for service.
- The mosquitos out here are voracious.
- No one who is hiring market researchers in Indianapolis seems to believe in moving faster than a glacier.
- Poison ivy really likes growing in our front garden.
- It’s apparently been the rainiest summer in history, or something.
- We managed to break our 18mm-50mm lens (ie: the main lens) for our digital camera, so we’re stuck using the 50mm-200mm lens until we get a replacement, which has been hard since, as mentioned, the move was very expensive. This means taking pictures of anything other than distance stuff is kind of a pain in the ass.
The overall judgement: we like it here. A lot. Especially now that we bought some bug spray.
Whether that will remain the case through the winter … we’ll have to wait and see. :)
Project Updates
Project Asimov: PRETTY OUTRAGEOUS! New photos coming soon.
The Fatass Project: Still sitting at exactly 213.5 pounds. THAT DOG WON’T FLY. Every time I lose a couple, we have a get together on the weekend or something where I drink a bunch of beer, eat a cheeseburger and ice cream, and sit around watching tv/movies! Time to hit the gym.
Thanks to Valerie Everett for the photo!
