So you lost your home. Now, what do you do about all the crap you’ve kept with you for years? The pictures, furniture, kitchen stuff, office stuff. Do you donate it? Do you pile it into your relatives’ house, or your new apartment? Do you Craigslist it? In the following video, you can se...

When I turn off the small electric space heater I use here in my apartment, the lights in the apartment grow brighter. I worry that the within these "vintage" walls lurks an electrical system composed of twist ties (with the plastic coating scraped off) and wire coat hangers. I was so worried, in fa...

Yesterday, after a really hectic day at work, I went back to my apartment with the idea of just going right to bed. However, when I went to take my contacts out I discovered I had no contact solution. This meant, to my great annoyance, a trip to Target to get some. When I got back from Target, it wa...

Chaim "Bray of Fundy" emailed me this clip: And its true. So much can happen in a year. This past year, I started a new job and then left it. This past year, I left my old apartment and moved to a larger one. This past year, I lost my Grandfather. This past year, my son was born whom I named after G...

"Nu, what have you been up to, Jacob?" Let's see...in the last 6 weeks I have: - Moved into a new apartment. - Taken my first business trip overseas and been to 3 different foreign cities in 6 days. - Discovered that my job is wayyyy more difficult and complex than I envisioned. - We conducted our S...

The housewarming turned out really well. Actually, it was the best (and biggest) party I've ever thrown -- and since part of the reason to have a housewarming is to bring good vibes into your new home, that was perfect. Birthdays are birthdays, but housewarmings are forever. Or something. Anyway, th...

So the plumbers seemed to have finished the toliet area of my dessicated bathroom, but the cement needs twenty-four hours to dry so I have no toliet! Yay! There is an open use toliet in the basement (by the laundry room) -- unfortunately, I have to go outside to get to the area where it is. So it fe...

KEYS, damn you! Keys! I own something!...

My move into the new apartment is half way done.  Meaning: I still have no furniture, am sleeping on the floor, and waiting for my brother to pay me back some of the money he owes me so I can get a van to pick up the rest of my stuff in storage.  It's strange.  I have all this sp...

I think I just found my new apartment. It's a some-what nice one bedroom about three or four blocks from where I live right now. The rent is $375 plus my share of the bills (a third of the electric and about 45% of the water and gas roughly fifty or sixty dollars a month). The guy who...