This morning Andy and my job is to move into the Amberson Apartments on the Carnegie-Mellon campus in Shadyside, Pennsylvania. My parents came down to Pittsburgh to help us with the move-in process. We got a two bedroom, one bath apartment on the seventh floor (seventh floor facing the circle and ninth facing Amberson) of …
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March 20, 2000: Waste Watcher Goes to Pittsburgh
Today is the big day. One month ago today Andy and I packed up and left Rochester to come to Ithaca to begin “phase one” of our Waste Watcher project adventure. Today begins the second phase. The 1992 Buick Regal GS was loaded to the hilt with sleeping bags, blankets, two Compaq Proliant 800 Servers, …
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February 21, 2000: Living in Ithaca
Today is my first full day of living in Ithaca, New York for the first time. I have always loved Ithaca ever since Nate and I first came here on a church camping trip back around 1989. We had camped at a boy scout camp on the west side of Cayuga Lake with our youth …
February 20, 2000: Moving to Ithaca
And thus the adventure begins… We all slept in a bit after the party last night. I have nothing going on today except for the drive from Greece to Ithaca. The truck was all packed and the apartment just needs its final round of cleaning before we turn over the keys and walk away from …
February 19, 2000: Last Day in Rochester
Today was the final day of packing the townhouse at Greenleaf Meadows in Greece where Josh, Amber, Andy and I have lived for more than a year. It was a two bedroom, one bath townhouse – not the end unit but next to the end. Josh and I had moved in in late 1998, I …