Magus's Grimoire [Abridged]

One of the exciting things about the great apartment hunt is that shield_toad111 wasn't able to take time off school for it. I went down alone with her camera, and attempted to take copious photographs, which, due to my unfamiliarity with the camera's configuration menu, ended up being way higher resolution than they had any right to be.

On each of Wednesday and Thursday, I went out looking at apartments with an agent, snapping photos of everything I thought might possibly be of interest or answer a question she might have, with hilariously varying degrees of success. I also tried, again with varying degrees of success, to take notes on what was what.

If you're ever shopping around for apartments or houses, even if just for yourself, I highly recommend if at all possible that you take someone with you to view things. They'll think of really important questions that escape your mind, especially as you fill it with more and more data on all the options.

Each evening I settled into a chair at the SBC at Borders [they offer free wifi] and sent all the photos over. This turned out to be a big pain because Borders limits upload bandwidth, gmail limits outgoing email size, and as previously mentioned the photos were ludicrously large. But it worked, and then we spent a bunch of time discussing the options.

It occurred to me this afternoon that, now that I'm home, I no longer have the technical limitations which prevented me from getting it all to her by putting it up on flickr. So I uploaded the photos of the apartment we decided on to allow my parents to see. If anybody else is curious, here's the link.

Then I realized it showed our soon-to-be address, and played with flickr's photo editing software to black it out. It's kind of terrible, and it would have been quicker and easier to just do it in the GIMP. Now I know.

We're still waiting on approval from the condo association before we're good to go. Hopefully we'll get that tomorrow.

We should remember to take more photos to accurately record the state of everything when we move in, especially if anything is less than completely perfect.

Back to packing...