Good News, Bad News Strikes Again

Good News: I'm finally posting again

Bad News: It's not about the wedding or my trip over here

Good News: For the people who don't care

Bad News: For the people who do care

Good News: Adam and I ordered a new bookcase (with drawers on the bottom) to hold more of our crap

Bad News: It was delivered missing 12 rather necessary screws (to install runners for said drawers)

Good News: We have water and electricity, and can afford to pay for it (and do, which may be considered bad news)

Bad News: The company who supplies all of our utilities is threatening to shut us off due to an unpaid balance on the account, which may or may not belong to us

Good News: Adam ordered a new mobile phone to replace his defuct old one

Good News: It was set to arrive today

Bad News: They keep asking him for information that they already have before they ship out the phone

Bad News: They asked for that information today, and thus the phone hasn't arrived (that they scheduled to deliver today)

Good News: The UK allowed me into the country without hassle

Good News: I am allowed to work legally

Bad News: I apparently have no credit standing in this country (no bills in my name, no job)

Bad News: Barclay's Bank will not add me to Adam's bank account because of this, despite it being ADAM'S money, not theirs

Good News: I have a job interview tomorrow

Bad News: None related to that really

Good News: If I get it, the job is part-time at a sandwich/bakery type place a five minute walk away from home

Bad News: The job is only part time.  And I will have to fight Adam for any free food I may or may not receive as a benefit of working there

That concludes this, the second edition of Good News, Bad News.  I dearly love writing these, so I must endeavor to do so more often.

Next up: Travels and Travails (man, I love the neat things you can do with the English language!)

Flying

Don't think I ever said.  Visa came through beginning of February, two weeks after I applied for it (miracle of miracles).  Flying today.  Southwest Airlines from PDX to LAX, Air New Zealand from LAX to Heathrow.  Tube from Heathrow to King's Cross, train from King's Cross to Huddersfield (with probably at least one change).  Bless his heart, Adam is meeting me at Heathrow to help haul all my stuff.

Here's hoping nothing goes wrong on the first flight so I don't have to rebook the second flight, and call Adam to try and explain why his wife didn't book the earlier flight into LAX to be safe.

I have plans to start posting more regularly again within the next couple of weeks.  Adam is off this week and next, so it may not really happen sooner.  But rest assured, I will get more wedding photos posted, and I will finish posting about the wedding, honeymoon, and what will hopefully be a love letter to Air New Zealand.

ETA at home is 6pm GST Wednesday.  That'll be 11am PST Wednesday, or 29.25 hours after I got up.  I estimate to be awake for about 33 hours.  Flight time is only about 14 hours.  Already yawning.

2010 Reading List: February

Agatha Christie

 1.  The Tuesday Club Murders (Miss Marple; a series of short stories--good intro to character)

 2.  The Labors of Hercules (Hercule Poirot; a series of short mysteries with an overarching theme)

Margaret Truman

 3.  Murder in the White House (Capital Crimes novel: no recurring characters, but sort of a "set")

Isaac Asimov

 4.  The Caves of Steel (A Lije Baley & R. Daneel Olivaw novel)

 5.  The Naked Sun (A Lije Baley & R. Daneel Olivaw novel)

J. K. Rowling

 6.  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone* (Harry Potter Series)

 7.  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* (Harry Potter Series)

Mary Francis Shura

 8.  Kate's Book* (one of two books featuring Kate Alexander)

 9.  Kate's House* (one of two books featuring Kate Alexander)

John Bellairs

10.  The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull* (A Johnny Dixon mystery) I'm not sure if I've finished this one before, but I know I have started it in the past.

Erle Stanley Gardner

11.  The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (A Perry Mason mystery)

Carl Hiaasen

12.  Flush

E.L. Konigsburg

13.  Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth

Carol Ryrie Brink

14.  The Pink Motel*

Jeff Burk

15.  Shatner Quake (More of a novella.  Whatever it is, it defies description.)