Nighttime Ramblin' at 11:02 PM

What to say, what to say?  I haven’t said much of anything to anyone as of late, actually.  But there’s still been lots going on.  We’ve pretty much decided that if I get the offer to go to Bloomington, that’s what we’re going to do.  It came down to this:  If Zimm and his wife weren’t here, would it even be a decision?  The answer is no.  We like Kokomo and all, but they’d be the only thing keeping us here (other than the job, of course).  So as for a timeline, right now the first round of interviews is going on.  I’m skipping that part.  Since my boss knows me (and specifically wanted me to apply), she’s not going to interview me.  So I know I passed that part.  The next step is that they’ll send me and the other top candidate (if there ends up being one) to Illinois to go through a whole bunch of other interviews in one day.  Joy of joys.  I love me a good interview.  Or five.

So I’m on vacation now until next Friday.  I’m working that day, but only from about 6-12 if I have anything to say about it.  My mom and dad and two sisters are coming into town next week, so that’s exciting.  Our house will seem much smaller than it usually does, I’m sure.  It’ll be fun for Luke too, because his cousin is coming.  The two of them can actually move around and control their own appendages now, so it should be fun to watch them interact.  Speaking of Luke, he’s started dancing to music.  Not really dancing like Zimm’s kid dances (it’s hilarious—he gets his “rock face” on), but if there’s music on, he’ll start rocking back and forth and grinning.  I was playing Beck today and he was feeling it.  

You want to know what kind of sucks about moving?  Everything except the actual promotion.  We went down to Bloomington last week to look at houses and see what our price range looked like, and it was pretty encouraging.  The problem is that up here, the market is not so great.  So even if/when we do end up selling the house, we’re probably going to take a hit.  Not good times.  If we’d known we were moving, we would’ve just stayed in the friggin’ apartment for another seven months or so.  But the one good thing to come of the whole house thing is that we actually have the experience of looking for houses and then living in the house that we picked.  We’ll probably do a few things differently this time around.  Not that I think we made a mistake, mind you.  There’s just a few things that we could have done to put ourselves at more of an advantage.

But enough with all this serious talk.  I pre-ordered an XBOX 360 a while back with the intention of selling it on eBay.  Why, you ask?  An example:  I saw one sell on eBay today for $750, and it’s not even released yet.  It comes out next week.  The demand will far outnumber the supply, as evidenced by the fact that I got a call today from the game store telling me that it’s going to take another week for me to get my system because Microsoft cut back on their initial rollout shipment.  It’s a smart move on their part, though it might not seem so.  Why would you send out less than people want?  The answer is because a shortage of this kind of item, especially around the holidays (it launches three days before Black Friday), creates a huge buzz.  Remember “Tickle Me Elmo”?  I do.  And how many years ago was that?  I don’t even know if I was married when that whole thing was going on.  The point is this:  everyone who wants an XBOX 360 will get one.  And the people who didn’t know they wanted one until they found out there weren’t enough?  They’ll get theirs too.  And I’ll sell it to them for way more than the sticker price.  I’m hoping that I can double the sticker price and pay for my own system.  I saw a demo at Best Buy the other day, and it was just plain ridiculous (in a good way).

I may post more extensively about this over at Eight Cents, but once again one of my favorite shows has been essentially cancelled.  I let out a silent cry of disappointment when I read the news at work.  Seriously folks, this is the funniest show on TV right now.  I love The Office, Scrubs, The King of Queens, and all that.  But nothing makes me laugh like Arrested Development.  Apparently there’s a slight chance that a premium channel (most likely Showtime) will pick it up.  This would mean I’d at least get to rent the season’s DVDs once a year, but probably also that they would stop bleeping the profanity.  I think the bleeping adds to the comedy.  Call me weird.

That’s about it for now.  I’m hoping to get some stuff done over the break, but you know how that goes.  Mostly we just want to get the house in order, but I’d also like to edit some video and some pictures.  I’ve got about 5 hours of raw home video that I need to trim and put on a DVD.  That’s a big project.  It’s the kind of thing that I really enjoy doing, but it takes me forever to get in the mood to do it.  Then once I start, I can’t stop.  Anyway, that was a paragraph full of rambling.  See you next time.

Song of the Day: “Breaks”, by the Black Keys.  This song was playing on my car stereo as Zimm was dropping out of his attic and into his garage.  Hopefully he’ll tell you that story soon.