Moving to the City

Jessica and I moved into a new apartment after becoming wed. She always had her eye on the apartments on Shawano Avenue in Green Bay and one finally became available.  Badger Park is just behind our place and it has close access to the Interstate 41.

There is a huge basement where I am setting up for all my toys and games. I have built a large bottom of a Star Destroyer across my whole ceiling with the middle hangar bay being the light in the middle of the room. The rest of the ceiling is painted with stars of course. There are murals on the concrete wall of Star Wars imagery, including AT-ATs  and Cloud City. My friends come over to play games and the neighbors kids do too. I even hosted some game events such as Star Wars CCG tournament and some Star Wars roleplaying game campaigns.

I moved the computer down to the basement too, so all the geekery is in one location. I had it first, in the spare bedroom. It was the first computer I got; a Packard Bell, though I didn’t really care for that brand; but, the price was right. I bought Ultima Online at the same time when I was perusing the shelves at Best Buy. I convinced Joel to buy it later too. I mostly play UO, Warcraft II and Lords of the Realm II.

I am new to computing and knew hardly anything and am learning new things daily. Eric first showed me winzip and going to shareware sites such as Tucows to get utilties and apps. I was really obsessed with creating themes for my desktop. I wanted to create the ultimate Star Wars theme. I bought a Magic the Gathering desktop themer with a theme for each of the five colors. I think black/death is my favorite. I am also constantly trying to tweak my dialup performance one kilobit at a time. I use UOTrace to route through different servers. The lag on UO and server crashes are often.

I am also to do a little bit of gardening. As you see in the photo I have small pots everywhere and am going herbs and tomatoes. It is nice to have a little lawn to take care of with my antique reel mower.

Teebo is my cat. We got him from the Humane Society. He is cute and cuddly and likes to play too.

As well as the middle-school-aged neighborhood kids that come over to game, there are the little ones, Jamie and Ashley. As you see from the photo that they are a little bit weird and cute. They like to come over and spend time with us and watch Disney movies, play video games and play with Teebo.

I am able to take off on my rollerblades out of the front door and make it all around the west side of Green Bay . Sometimes Eric comes with me or we go to the east side and skate around the UWGB campus.

I enjoy living here. The neighbors and nice and the landlords are nice. I have some space for my hobbies and it has access to exploring the city.