Greetings from our latest ZIP code!
Where to start? I neglected to take any photos over the last week so it’ll be a texty entry here. The moving van arrived on Monday, we packed it to the brim, 10′ x 18′ x 10′ in about 100 trips back and forth. Tuesday we cleaned the house and polyfilla’d all the holes ready for the inspection on Wednesday morning. We also fitted in a walk round lake Merritt with T and I got hands-free things for the mobiles so we could chat legally in the cars on the convoy ‘cos of the new California legislation. I also got a polarizing filter for me camera ready for the invariably overcast skies in Oregon. I’ve not tried it out yet.
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Wednesday’s inspection went great, we got our full deposit back and the LL was impressed with the level of cleanliness and the number of applications we’d got for our replacements. Then it was the I-5 all the way to Portland where I burned through a week’s worth of podcasts in 11 hours or so. A highlight amongst them was Mario’s Circulo Vicioso, Mario and his mates are going through their record collections once a month and releasing their favourite tracks with a bit of description. Bodes well for Spanish-speaking, retro music lovers of a certain age… We got into Portland by around 8pm and went straight to a friends house to collapse in a heap and have some wine…
Thursday was exploring our new ‘hood and buying provisions. There’s a wealth of little local owned shops, restaurants, galleries, pubs. We’ve not established a ‘local’ yet but it’s on the cards, found a brilliant breakfast place though about 5 blocks from the house, also found the local pricey organicky supermarket and, more importantly, Albertsons…
Friday… the moving van arrived at 10ish it took about 3 hours to empty it. There were a few casualties but most furniture survived. One IKEA shelf unit reverted to its flatpack form however, but I’ve repurposed it in me office and shall post a pic one of these days. The rest of Friday was unpacking the boxes and moving around furniture/ buying furniture, as was Saturday and a lot of Sunday.
Sunday was our 6 year wedding anniversary. Drsita pulled out our Big Book of Fun Things to do in Portland that T gave us and found a couple of places that were reasonably priced and delicious.
Yesterday it felt like we were moved in. We moved the futon into the basement and replaced it with a second hand sofa, shoved the curtains up around the place, cooked prawn curry, bought a spade to start the gardening and generally chilled. We’ve a heatwave on this week so we’re well glad of the ceiling fans in the various rooms. Today the forecast is the mid 90s. Drsita carried through with her threat to cut my hair too. Maybe in a week or two I’ll be able to tie it back again…
This avo I noticed that some peeps from the Portland Flickr group are having a meet up in a nearby park so that’ll be a chance to unpack me camera and meet some new folks. On Thursday we might well be helping some friends of friends move in too. So it’s all onwards and upwards on the social front. Now I just have to find a job…
In summary, all is very well.
For home improvement and very imminent baby news, Monica’s blogging again.
I’m glad you posted that because I didn’t know what was going on with ISC..never saw it down so long.
By the way, how did you know that there was a spike in traffic?
Statistics on my site usage… Half the fun of having your own site is seeing where people surf in from.
I just had 3 decent real-time games on scrabulous.com. One with another ISC refugee. My handle’s gwynf if you fancy a quick SOWPODS game 😀
I WAS PLAYING ONE NIGHT ADN THEN MY GAME WENT BLANK SUDDENLY LOL JUN 18. I THEN FOUND SCRABALOUS OF COURSE TOOOOOOOO : )
Hi qwerty,
every now and again they have issues in Romania with the ISC servers, they usually publish something on their site if it’s a big issue…
Facebook’s now banned scrabulous for US/Canadian users, but there is a way round it using proxy servers, email for details 😉
What’s happened to the Internet Scrabble Club? I haven’t been able to connect since Sunday August 31st, and there’s been no explanation. Help – I can’t live without it. Do you know anything?
Seems like lots of people are locked out of it, Chrissie… I just logged in with no trouble.
here’s my standard email for people asking about it:
anyone:
please let me know if you hear anything about isc being back up. i’m an addict and can’t live without it. i’ve tried downloading again but no luck. sigh
CAnnot even get into Scrabulous!
Wow! Scrabulous.com is down… and was hosted by GoDaddy??!
I can still get on ISC, but there are WAY fewer people playing. On their site: “Right now there are 5422 players logged into the ISC and 2008 games in progress.”
I periodically, am unable to connect to ISC I have noticed that it seems to happen after I have updated Java. I put off updating and was able to connect and play ok. Unfortunately I got a new pc and had to put Java on and of course it was the latest version and sure enough no connetion to ISC. Maybe its a coincidence I dont know I am not a computer expert Maybe someone out there is and can help.I keep trying to connect as for no reason whatsoever I am usually able to connect after a few weeks and enjoy my game again.
These posts are pretty old, but thank you anyway. I’ve been having trouble getting in for a couple of days. Immediately got paranoid about the possibility of having been banned for criticising the Tile Fairy quite robustly a couple of times. Well I’ve cleared cache etc, updating Java and will try the download of Wordbiz thing again. And if none of that works, I will let paranoia get the better of me, unplug, and run away crying. And possibly doing something useful with my free time. What am I saying.
Just dusted off WordBiz after a lengthy absence, Tyler, and am playing a game right now. So none of this ‘do something productive instead’ defeatism, please 😉
Thank you Gwyn – I’ve done everything in the instructions and nothing has made a difference. But I see up above that you noted 5422 people logged in once – well I’ve seen just 1,500-2,000 logged in over the last 2-3 days, so that tends to suggest there could be something wrong for some servers/countries??? I shall put my paranoia back in its box, and wait. And perhaps offer some sacrifices to the Tile Gods whilst I’m waiting. Lilymac, if you’re out there, it’s MEEEEEE I’m still alive.
Grrrr. ISC is down for 24 hours. I logged on about 1600 BST yesterday so it could be another 8 hours yet – i’m crawling up the wall here. Anyone know anything?
It’s almost 4:00 pm Eastern time and ISC is still down.
It said 24 hours yesterday morning. It is now 4:30 p.m. CST and server still down.
Does anyone have an update? The http://www.isc.ro has gone completely offline.
I’ve been trying to log on for two days. Nothing. I can’t stand this! I want to play so bad. I’m totally jonesing here. I’m a Scrabble addict and need my fix!
Site still seems to be down – anyone know why or when it might return?
I THOUGHT if we paid our yearly dues, which I did, that I could at least play the BOT if the site was down but I get NO connection, even to a message explaining that they are working on it.. SIGH.
Crawling up wall here too. Even resorting to housework!
Looks like it’s back up now (19:25 GMT, 10th Aug 2015), must’ve been quite the outage. Hope everyone’s making up for lost time…
Has anybody been able to get isc on android device?
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