We slept in the new apartment for the first time last night. Other than sitting on the couch that’s about all we could do. We haven’t got any clothes or kitchen supplies over there yet. We expect to be sleeping there nights and coming back to the house to pack, eat and use the phone at the house during the day.

The Bowyer came over to the house last night and he and I loaded the couch and the bed into his truck. Getting the couch out of the house was the hardest part. It’s long enough for Nizzibet and I to both nap on it. The front door opens into a small foyer. From there you can go through a narrow door to enter the living room or a narrow door to enter the first bedroom. The couch had to be angled through the living room door into an on-end position in the foyer, turned and then angled out the front door. The bed frame and mattress followed much more easily.

The box spring that goes with the mattress has been hibernating in the garage for the last four years. It wouldn’t fit down the stairs for our bedroom at the house. We had it well wrapped in black plastic and sitting on a pallet. No mold or bugs or squirrel nests, yay!

It felt a little odd sleeping on the bed last night. Until now the mattress has been sitting on a single boxspring paired with doubled over foam pallet. Sitting at a list I might add.

In a half an hour or so I’ll begin waking up Nizzibet. Fifteen minutes to a half hour after that she’ll be awake enough to stagger upstairs. Once she’s out of bed I’ll take the bed apart and haul the components upstairs.

We take possession of our apartment today. A friend will be coming by with a truck this evening to haul over some large pieces of furniture – the bed and the couch that we’re planning to keep. Then I’ll spend the next week moving minor day to day necessities over (clothes, food, dishes, cooking utensils and suchlike) while sorting out the leave-behinds.

The first installment of Misspent Youths #1 got posted yesterday. Expect a page a week for the next 32 weeks.

After I’d listed Misspent Youths #2-5 at Webcomics Nation’s sales site it started to dawn on me what should be serialized on my Nation pages. Misspent Youths #1 of course. I don’t have any copies of that issue to sell. Might as well give it away.

I’ve got some scanning to do over the weekend. Then on Tuesday the 9th, for the next 33 weeks, Moe and Detritus and the gang get a rerun.

So I’ve got a Webcomics Nation account right? Not ’cause I had big plans. I’m too tired these days to have big plans. (Okay, not true. I’ve often had big plans while being way too tired and busy.) I’m already committed to Finnegan and Oz Squad and anything new would just cut in to the little time I’ve currently got. But the Nation opened its borders and there was money in my Paypal account and their offer was a discount for life so I became a citizen.

The Nation is a capitalist one. It’s set up to help its citizens live their capitalist dreams. And I’ve got a few copies of comics I created filling up boxes that I’ll just keep moving around with me if I don’t sell them. So I’m putting copies of Misspent Youths and GLYPH and Last Dangerous Christmas up for sale at the Small Press Swapmeet.

I’m on the AFA.net mailing list. Know thy enemy and all that. Mostly I ignore their whinings. Once in a while I look. Then I get a head ache.

The latest poll asks –

Should Intelligent Design be taught in public schools alongside evolution?

No, the theory of evolution is the only theory which should be taught in public schools.

The Yes box in their form is prechecked. God forbid that someone actually has to consider whether to check yes or no. Someone might notice that no opinion is actually being asked for – just a rubber stamp on a dull and ignorant view of the world.

Should students be exposed to different ideas, or should they be shielded from information about intelligent design? Oh please, expose them to intelligent design. In fact, why not actually expose them to different ideas? Make them read Lovecraft and Phillip K. Dick. Make them watch X the Unknown. Tell the little darlings about spontaneous generation. Teach the little fuckers to apply critical thinking to every dumbass statement that their elders’ try to pass off as truth.

The AFA form, by the way, doesn’t provide you with a place to give your opinion. The only options are the AFA qualified Yess or Nos.

We’ve got an apartment reserved. Twice.

First Nizzibet found a one bedroom that she liked and put a down payment on it. The building manager mentioned that there was a two bedroom available if she was interested. She passed.

She and I discussed it this morning and decided to at least look at the place.

She liked the two bedroom place much more. Aside from having another room it also has a balcony and it’s on a side of the building away from the street so it’s quieter. Slightly more expensive for a much nicer arrangement. Unfortunately it needs to have some repair done on it so it won’t be available for move in until next week. So this week we’ll be concentrating on doing more packing, giving things away and trashing the rest.

The Slate essay about the Dove Real Beauty campaign. Mr. Stevenson is an idiot. I’d go in to further detail but, really, why waste the time typing about it?

By the end of this month we’ll be in a new apartment. That’s the plan anyway. Nizzibet will be doing the basic searching this week. We’d wanted to look sooner but the lack of car delayed that. Once we’ve got a place located I’ll be doing a lot of small trips moving clutter. You know, that stuff that you always leave until last to move?

We should be able to do a big move on the 20th or 21st and then have the next week and a half to finish clean/destroying evidence in the old place.

This is, of course, if things go as planned.

And I’ve signed up for a Web Comics Nation site. Nothing to see yet.

A Toyota Corolla has replaced our Suzuki Sidekick.

The house is a mess. Stacks of boxes are filling the unused rooms upstairs. Dull white paint is replacing the cheery colors that have graced our walls for the last few years.

There’s a lot of furniture that we need to find new homes for.

Worlds of Cthulhu #3 has finally gone to press. I know this because I was the last contributor holding things up. Damn me.

Normally I don’t care much about new prose Oz books. There are multitudes. I’ve read few of them so I’ve probably missed a number of good little stories. The Emerald Wand of Oz is illustrated by William Stout so it will be gorgeous. It hereby joins the other 600+ items on my Amazon wish list.