Ramblings

Ya, it’s been a while since I posted. I wanted to post, but I don’t have an internet connection in my apartment yet and yesterday was insane here at the office. Friday after work I headed over to the apartment complex and signed my lease and paid the deposit. I grabbed the keys and headed for a quick dinner at Fazoli’s with Dwight. Once dinner was over (Thanks Dwight!) I headed back to the Quad to gather a few things up and then headed south.

The trip down went rather normal, nothing really happened at all. I got into LaPorte about 11:30 and ended up staying up talking until about 2:30. Saturday morning we got a trailer and headed over to a friend’s house who had said they had a couch I could have. They apparently had a couch and love-seat, in addition to several other items that they wanted to give me. The only problem was that the couch was about three inches too long to fit in the trailer. Oh well, we just took the love-seat for now.

Got back to the house and loaded up the rest of my junk in the trailer and my van and started heading back to Longview about four PM. The trailer seemed to do just fine behind the van for a while. I did say … for a while … because every once in a while we noticed a bit of smoke that would form, then quickly disappear. We have had this happen before and figured it wasn’t going to be a real problem.

It became a real problem just north of Nacagdoches. The van really started to smoke heavily and we began to worry a bit. It finally gave out on 322, not 15 miles from the campus. We added tranmission fluid, about four quarts, and got the van back on campus. We ended up grabbing the rest of my stuff from the Quad and towing the van and trailer up to the apartment complex.

We started unloading the trailer sometime around midnight on Sat/Sun. It went relatively well, as it only took two hours … even moving to a second story apartment. Most of my things are put away, but most of my books still need to be pulled out of boxes and put on shelves. I still am working on getting all of my utilities, phone, internet, blah, blah, blah all set up and billed correctly.

Well, happy surfing. I’m out of here ….