Yay!

I don't have an exact date yet, but I heard today that a new unit is open for me!

It's going to be on the 3rd floor, but the way the other building is situated, the floors are sort of between the ones here; the first-level floors are actually lower than the ones here, and the 2nd floor apartments (which I was looking at) are therefore slightly lower than mine.

I was a bit concerned about that, as I like to leave my terrace door and windows open all the time, and the terrace level on the 2nd floor units, I noticed, were lower than my 2nd floor terrace. So for safety purposes, 3rd floor will do nicely. It's only one flight of stairs up, no different than what I have to get to this 2nd floor unit. Be a touch warmer in the summer (but with two big doors I can open I can get more air moving), but the upshot is it'll also be warmer in the winter, thanks to the physics of heat.

Looks like it'll be next month (I'm hoping she might let me start moving stuff early, as the unit is open!). The pile of packing in my office has grown, and I'm now down to packing up the stuff I left out -- things I get to a lot. Well, not everything I left out was. I was just plain sick of packing by the time I got to my pantry.

Whee!

Car news.

I got the new engine in, but after only having the engine for 24 hours, a factory defect became apparent, and back to the shop Angus had to go. He's actually at Landmark Ford at the moment, getting a cylinder head fixed.

I'm really excited about the news about the unit; now hopefully the weekend I have to do the big push will be cool. At the moment it's 102 degrees outside at 6:31 pm. Ooog.

But...still better than when I lived in Texas and it was 102 and humid. It was the only time in my life I felt like I was actually melting. Free perm action for my hair, though, with the humidity making the curl go nutso.

Later, all. Water's boiling and I need to go throw in the pasta. I was going to grill something, but the idea of cooking over fire when it's this hot out is borderline insane.

-- H