Phwoar. What a series of weeks. We're still gearing up for INSURV, working six-day weeks now, plus four section duty. As a result of this awesome arrangement, I worked yesterday, have a 24-hour duty day today, work all day tomorrow and then have meniscus repair surgery on Tuesday. This arrangement is stupid, so I managed to finagle tomorrow off, though it was like kicking dead whales down the beach. I mean, really. I've been gimping around on one leg that won't fully hold my weight and the other that's degrading fast since November, I finally get seen about it, diagnosed with damage that might result in me being removed from the ship, and they begrudge me 24 hours off? Seriously? Really?
I'm finally moved properly into my new place, though there's still an inordinate amount of kipple to squirrel away. The new house is much nicer than my old ramshackle flat, and a heck of a lot bigger, though it's not without issues. For one, the electrical wiring is rather oogy. There are painted-over power sockets everywhere and some of them are corroded, too. Running a computer on the living room circuit causes the lights to pulsate when my GPU is running flat-out. On top of that, a lot of the finish carpentry work, and any non-original additions are all shoddily constructed. The original framing work, doors, walls, etc, are fine - but the railings, mud room closet, attic stairs, add-on kitchen cabinets and add-on light fixtures are dodgy as all hell. But other than that, I couldn't be happier with the neighborhood and the improvement in space - even if my work schedule means that I haven't gotten more than one day off at a time since I finished moving.
Of course, space isn't the only upgrade. I went from DSL to FIOS internet access, too. Granted, that means dealing with Verizon (insert ritual motions of disgust here), but I can't gritch about the quality. 35Mbps symmetric is what they claim. I measure 35.5Mbps down and around 27 up, which is closer to theoretical than I ever got out of my DSL line. Latency's pretty good, too - I measure 8-12ms to a datacenter in Ashburn, Virginia, versus 30-70 on the DSL link. I still don't have IPv6 set up, but I'll get that figured out here sooner or later.