Done Moving! Sort of...

Hello fellow geminauts! I am finally back, sort of!

Moving sucks

As I said before, I really hate moving. I am now in my new place, but its very much unfinished. We moved our stuff into the two finished rooms of this three bedroom floor. But they weren't empty! So our entire apartment has been squeezed into these two rooms. So it is a bit of a tight fit. I managed when I returned (after a 1 and a half day absence) to setup our couch and bed in one of the rooms to at least give us some semblance of a living space.

Box fort!

Because nothing but two bedrooms were empty enough for us to put all of our stuff into, one room is basically all of our boxes and furniture. So I, actually while writing this initially, sorted some of the boxes and rearranged some things to open the floorspace up enough that we can at least start to figure out what to do this weekend (so when I wake up tomorrow).

Internet setup

What is currently holding me back from feeling "moved in" is not having my desk/computer. We're sharing internet with her family who lives on the floor beneath us. But we need to run a cable up to this floor for me to setup an Access Point to extend the WiFi range, but also I need to go into the attic and run some ethernet into the various bedrooms. I have 2 switches already which should be enough, as we only REALLY need ethernet in two of the rooms. But I may have to buy a third. I really want to get my sites and capsule back running from home rather than the cloud. But until I have some hardwire I am sutck.

Do we just get our own internet plan?

So because this floor is intended to be rented out to strangers once my girlfriend and I figure out what we are going to do about living (I want to buy a home, but I have to ya' know... do all that work that goes into that) so in the meantime, do we split their internet?

Part of me wants to just so I can "control" the router. I am a control freak when it comes to router configurations. I have flashed every router I've owned with a FOSS firmware, and I always over secure my password/SSID etc. To the detriment of my family where I have to reset the router every so often because they forget the password to the admin (and I lose it too, but keepass has come to the rescue on that!)

When do you adjust to a new place as home?

This is my girlfriends childhood home. She already feels at home. I am still adjusting. It has only been two full days here for me. But I am fairly easy going when it comes to "new spaces" (I've been hear plenty as she was living here when we started dating, and is located in the same city we lived in, so it wasn't exactly far!). But as I mentioned there are just a few things that I like to have that help me feel at home - my computer and my guitars. Everywhere I have lived those have been my outlets, so right now when I am bored I feel like there is nothing for me to do. Since I can't DO anything.

This weekend

So my goal for this weekend is to find a way to setup my desk and PC, and maybe build a small pedal board for my guitar and get my amp setup. The pedals are a strethc goal. Just getting out my good cables and guitar in a reachable space is enough to feel like I LIVE here, and am not just HERE. If that made any sense!

Conclusion

Overall, I am grateful. I am living here at a reduce rent out of the kindness of her parents as we figure out our next situation. Our puppies are really happy to have their grandparents around. My girlfriend feels much safer here than at our old apartment, and I think once the renovations start to wrap up will feel less anxiety. I know she never felt really at home in our apartments (despite my efforts to help her adjust to not living at home for the first times). So what may end up being a few months of slight inconvenience, but that is fine with me.

I can post to my gemlog from my work PC for now, and I am glad to be back! I have a fun write-up in the works about music that will hopefully get some people replying with their own spin on it :)

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