I Hate Cardboard Boxes.

All right, I guess it’s about time for a quick update.

I have now more or less moved into the new apartment. All the boxes have finally been emptied, but there are still a lot of things that need to be done. The first thing that comes to mind is to get rid of all the garbage.

I’ve bought some new furniture at IKEA and other stores and everything comes packed in cardboard boxes. Now, after its all unpacked and assembled, there is a mountain of cardboard in my kitchen, which is generally just in the way.

Also, there is a lot of stuff that needs to be attached to the walls. I have a power drill, but not the time to get it done. Hopefully this weekend, though.

As for the house warming party people are asking about: It will probably take a while. The sofa I wanted will not arrive in another eight to ten weeks, and until then I have four kitchen chairs for you guys to share.

Can’t those kids work any faster?

9 Down, 91 To Go.

It’s about time to remove yet another time from The List^TM:

#89. Own an apartment or a house.

I’ve now got the keys to the apartment. Quite the anti-climax, to be honest. You can see how well I’m doing with the moving in thing right here:

Show’s over! The cam is offline.

Don’t expect too much action until tomorrow evening, though. If you see the place catch on fire, please call the fire department.

Apt72.

Tomorrow is the big day: I get the key to my apartment (given that the bank has transferred the money, of course), from now on dubbed “Apt72”. Apt72 because it’s apartment 72.

If all goes according to plan there will already be a working internet connection there so I plan to install a webcam right away so can all peep in on me moving in.

I’ll use tomorrow and Friday after noon to pack my stuff in boxes and Saturday to go out and buy necessary furniture, like a sofa, and appliances, like a washing machine. It’s such a hassle to have to walk down to the river to wash my clothes.

Scouting.

Saturday’s posting orgy totally emptied me creatively, so there was no entry for you yesterday. My best guess is that you all survived.

On Sunday me and Gine grabbed our bikes and went to Vålerenga, where my new apartment is located. The motivation for the trip was to scout the area and check what kind of services and facilities were available. As it turned out, I’ve got all I really need up there, and I’m downtown at work almost every of the week so if anything I can’t get done at Vålerenga, I can do it on my way home from work.

The neighborhood was awfully quiet and that suits me very well. That it was Sunday probably helped a lot, though, but I can’t imagine that noise will ever be a problem unless it turns out my close neighbors are all members of the same marching band. One of the minor concerns about the apartment has been the railway tracks that lie pretty close to the apartment building. Well, actually, the concern has not been the railway tracks per se (oh, look at that, I used a sophisticated expression in an everyday situation), but the trains that usually run on the railway tracks.

But I very much doubt that it will be a problem: A train passed at high speed when we were outside the apartment building, so there is little chance I will ever hear it when I’m inside.

Now I’ve started to check the online IKEA store for furniture. I need a few things, for instance a sofa. The best thing is probably that I know what I’m getting instead of having to decide in a packed warehouse on a Saturday.

More Consuming.

Over the years, I’ve been trying to add review sections to various sites. At least one attempt has been made to www.vegard.net - that’s this site for the less attentive of you - with Consumer versions one and two.

To be honest, it didn’t work out very well because having a high quality dedicated review section requires a lot of effort. As you know, I tend to be a little off an on with the site updates.

The problem is, however, that I have this urge to tell the world what I think about movies, books, games, gadgets and other material things, whether they (you) like it or not. So now I’ve decided to make the reviews an integrated part of the…eh…blog.

Please excuse me while I shiver violently.

Anyway, reviews might start to pop up any minute now. I’m also thinking about merging the Moblog with the entries, because does it really need its own section? I think not.

In other news, the tenant-owner’s association - and after a while the real estate agent - contacted me today to let me know that no one in the association had exercised their right to buy the apartment from the seller at my bid. This means that there I’m only a few signatures away from becoming a home owner for real.