It Is A Good Wednesday.

Yes indeed it is. First of all, my Astyanax speedrun has finally been posted to SDA. Further, the traffic I got from there made today one of my biggest days ever in terms of traffic (There’s a link to the site at the bottom of the comments). I guess the audience for speedruns is actually pretty large, or at least large enough that a new Emptyeye speedrun caused traffic here to spike noticeably.

By the way, to those of you who got here via the link in the run comments, welcome! Hopefully you know of my other runs, and I hope I’ve done Astyanax justice. Don’t forget to check out my music while you’re here too.

The speedrun is really a minor thing, though. The big news is that today I put a holding deposit down on an apartment, making me (And Jess) one step closer to actually moving out. Sometime after Memorial Day, we’ll officially sign the contract, and hopefully move in around early June. This is a rather huge step for us, and it’s nice for me personally in that I’ll be about a mile away from work–close enough to bike or even walk if I want to. Put another way, since I like to complain that Americans as a whole are idiots and will gladly pay exorbitant prices for gas (A part of why prices continue to rise, which most said Americans seem unable or unwilling to figure out), I’ll be able to put my money where my mouth is and almost entirely eliminate my weekly gas consumption.

That’s just one perk, of course. I was trying not to get too excited about the whole deal until it was official, and while I’m not there yet, putting the deposit down is a big step toward resolving this whole thing. Oddly enough, the person (I’ve been communicating with several people, all of whom are part of the business) thought I and/or Jess had a dog, which isn’t allowed at this particular complex. I’m guessing wires got crossed somewhere, but he almost shooed us away before we pointed out that we did not, in fact, own a dog. After that, it was relatively smooth sailing–my credit is just fine, and I’m not a big partier (To paraphrase Lifting Shadows‘s description of Dream Theater bassist John Myung, I simply prefer my own company to that of strangers. For that matter, I usually simply prefer my own company to that of my friends and family.), which he liked a lot. So out came the checkbook, and thus the apartment is being held for us until we decide to move in. This will likely be in early June, as between weddings and parties, we’re pretty booked until the end of May, unfortunately (The person seemed eager to have us move in as quickly as possible).

So that’s my big, life-changing news. This probably means that work on pretty much everything will be on hold for a bit while I take stock of what I actually need to get together, pack up, etc. before moving out, but I do plan on getting all of my projects done eventually.