The first day of the lease

Today was the first day of the lease on the new place. I began the day by meeting with the lady from the real estate company to get the keys, hand her two months worth of rent (because since we are just(nested parenthesis: welcome to the Midwest!) online poker players, and thus can't prove our incomes in conventional ways, landlords are always skeptical about our ability to pay the rent), and meet up with the people who are going to turn on our water, electricity, gas, and cable. Also, once I got the water turned on the real estate company was gong to send out people to de-winterize the place. After that the plan was to spend the rest of the day cleaning the place up a little. Carpet cleaning... sweep and mop... the usual. Sounds easy? Think again.

The idea was just to schedule them all for today and get them all set up. Unfortunately, the house has been winterized so the pipes are all cold and what have you. So, since the heat wasn't turned on, the water couldn't be turned on... and since the water couldn't be turned on the place couldn't be de-winterized. Now that has all been pushed back to tomorrow when I'm going to be running all over the heartland of America to get my stuff that is stored in random spots in one truck and unload said truck. So, it's going to be an obstacle to make sure that somebody is at the place to let people in for me tomorrow. Also, the cable dude comes out and says he has to drill holes to install the cable and since I didn't have written consent from my landlord that he could do that we had to reschedule that for a few days down the road. We all are planning on moving in over this time so hopefully we will be occupied enough with moving in that our lack of cable won't become an issue. During this time Tom and Jess call to let me know that A) they are bringing a dog (yay puppy) and B) their car is having issues(nay troubles). Woo! Eventful!

Moving right along...

My mom and I brought some water over from her place and used that to put in the carpet cleaner. So the carpets did get cleaned!

Good guys: 2

Bad guys: 3

While cleaning the house I did happen to come a cross a random playing card just chilling out in a cabinet. Only one card was there. The card? The deuce of hearts. I'm a coach at DeucesCracked.com. I figure it's a sign that there was a deuce, and only a deuce, just chillin' in the house. Here's to hoping our deuces don't get cracked!