Well, I decided to accept Larry’s counter-offer of $575 and rent apartment #104. It means that I will have about a 44% increase in rent; slightly less than then the 100 % increase I will encounter on my utilities and Internet connection. The price of living alone. I could have searched for a random roommate; to be honest, David has been such a good roommate I think it would be very difficult indeed. I also could have found a cheaper place – although I was having trouble meeting all my needs: enough space to hold all my junk, cat-friendly, close to work, and cheap. The ease of moving and month-to-month rent really helped seal the deal. Now I’m anxious to do it, of course – when in reality I have to wait until at least October 1st. Poor Eriko was hit by a car while riding her bike Sunday night – she ran a red and banged her knees and elbow up. Thankfully, the only loss was that of her bike.. and maybe a little pride.

Mommy recommended The Maltese Falcon and I concur with her judgment! It was a very enjoyable movie. I borrowed it from Carol, Aaron’s girlfriend – and my only complaint is that there is a 30 minute documentary before the movie. I understand that nobody would watch it unless it if it were placed after.. but come on – put it after! ;P I didn’t do much today and it took me twelve hours to do it. I saw the movie ‘Lost in Translation’; It was entertaining but I would rank it as a rental. Finally bought some more Jockey shirts – after mom told me to throw out my old ones I was down to the 6 she gave me – I couldn’t go a week without doing laundry. Now I can go almost two. =) I await my landlord’s response to my $550 offer; he scoffed at my $500 offer. If he balks at $550 I will have to kick my apartment search into a higher gear and may have to trade space for proximity, or proximity for price. Fortunately or not, I have quite a few belongings – and some of them are kinda big. I am definitely looking forward to living in my own place. Something about being in charge of all aspects is exciting.

i went for pizza with lisa and we talked about Eriko and her boyfriend, Ken. then we met up with the homies at mcmenamins : mark, aaron, jerry, joe, and melanie. it was fun – but the best thing was that i held my lavish self in-check, i had one piece of pizza and one glass of wine. =) i’d rather have spent the evening with Eriko, i think.

Apparently I am helping contribute, as a portion of my patch for clamav-milter was accepted by the maintainer and submitted upstream to the maintainer of clamav. It feels awesome to contribute!

Eriko sent me an email in which she talked about a conversation she had with her mom. Her mom asked her if she was getting married soon and Eriko responded, “i don’t think so.” Then her mom told her that they need time to save up for the wedding. I think the joyous moment for me is that knowing that I don’t need to rush and knowing that she doesn’t need to rush – if our love is true then there is nothing else we need to ask for. Thinking that both our parents are giving their blessing is just icing on the cake. Good, semi-sweet icing not that super sugary stuff that I don’t like. ;P

they say ‘alls well that ends well.’ my only complaint about this weekend is that its almost over. ;P i wasn’t as productive as last weekend but thats OK. i think i’m going to be busy this next week; tomorrow i visit UW to attend a meeting for those interested in the PMP, tuesday i meet with my apartment manager to check out a studio. i’d like to go swimming at least twice this week, do some GRE study, nail at least one or two of priority 1 todo items, and completely clear out my bug queue at work. i hope mom recovers quickly and fully.