Phew

Ok...so I'm back, it's been a rough couple of weeks.

Right from ComicCon, I went to Arizona to move Marnie and the girls out to California. Got everything set up, ready to go, and confirmed. The movers got there on time and we were off to California by Tuesday afternoon.

On the road to California, the A/C in the jeep goes out. This sucked bad because it's super hot in the desert between Phoenix and San Diego. We move both dogs to the Uhaul and Marnie suffers in the Jeep. The Uhaul cab was pretty cramped with 2 dogs and me in it, but at least we had the air conditioning.

About half way to San Diego, I get a call on my cell phone. It's the apartment complex, our new apartment is flooded (water main broke) so we can't move into that one. They have another one set up for us. In the meantime, while we are on the road to San Diego, Marnie has to call SanDiego Gas/Electric, Cox Cable, etc. to get all of our information changed to the new apartment.

We make it to San Diego finally, the traffic is a bit ridiculous, but Marnie does a good job of keeping up (she doesn't like big city freeway traffic). We check into the hotel and get cleaned up. There is no A/C in the hotel and it's kind of humid out, but whatever.

The next morning, we drop off the Uhaul at the apt complex before heading to PetSmart for the girls grooming appt (babysitting while the movers get the stuff in the house). This is about 2 hours before we are scheduled to move in. We go into the office to let them know we arrived and we'll be back in 2 hours to move in. They say that our apt isn't ready and that we can stay in a model apt for the night. We say this is totally unacceptable. We have movers coming, cox cable coming, etc. They say that they'll reimburse for any problems, but we continue to push this as being unacceptable because we can't reschedule either because it's a ridiculous lead time. They pull some strings and get the carpet cleaners in there asap.

We get the paperwork signed and get into the apt. There is zero cell phone reception. We weren't given a chance to check out the apt before we signed and this was all they had so we were stuck. No phone sucked bad, the movers got a little lost so they were delayed. The Cox guy shows up and tells us that it's going to cost extra to get cable into the 2 bedrooms. We tell him that's not what the Cox operator said. He said he's sorry they are mistaken and that we can call them but we'll still have to pay etc. Ridiculous! The movers show and unload everything. We have a garage, but can't park either vehicle in there without significant manuevering that neither of us want to do on a regular basis. It's a small garage and the street is narrow and it's on the side of the street, yea...a pain in our ass.

There is no A/C in the apt and despite having 4 fans going and opening up all the windows, it's still pretty hot.

Went to Blizzcon last weekend, which was fun. Saw the Wrath of the Lich King expansion and played a bit and played a bit of Starcraft 2, but demoing for 12+ hours and gunslinging for 4+ hours over 2 days was a bit hellish.

On top of all this, I had a severe outbreak of the gout. So I have been in pain for the past 5-7 days or so.

It's been a week of hell, etc, but we are finally moved in.