New City, New Baby, New Problems?

What a week, that is all I have to say right now. First we have to pack up our stuff and move halfway across the nation, and then we have to take our 5 week old son on his first plane ride in order to make it in time to meet our stuff. Luckily for us, he was a complete gentleman for the move and on the plane, no crying, no fussing, nothing. It was as good as it could be. I couldnt ask for a better situation with him.

Then the fun starts. When we check into the hotel, he starts up a storm, screaming at the top of his lungs. As he is doing this, the computer we have been using for the last five plus years goes to shit, and we are left with a crying baby and no way to get the addresses we need to get around a foreign city. I had been to San Antonio before, and knew that we were probably going to buy an Apple computer for the first time, so I said that we should just go to the nearest store and buy our new machine. Our phones were dead from travelling, so we couldnt really get the addresses (as I said), but I knew where the local mall was to get our computer and get home. My wife added insult to injury by saying we were on our last few diapers, but I figured that it would be easy to stop at one of the five million Targets around the area.
So, we get to the mall, which was surprisingly easy to get to, and we pick out our new Macbook Pro that will be our computer for the foreseeable future. Easy enough. Wrong. We cant pay using our check cards for two reasons – the daily limit is less than the cost of the computer, and our bank thinks we are still living in Los Angeles. Fraud alert city, right? Yeah, that second one was my bad. After having a quick chat with them, everything gets sorted out, and we walk out the door without a problem. We stop in at Target, get our diapers and head back to the hotel for the night.
After all that, Noah calmed down at about 11pm, and we were able to get some sleep. We really needed it after waking up at 4am, but it sure did take an army to get him to stop fussing. Our first San Antonio experience may not have been a great one, but it was definitely representative of our normal luck as the Gellman family, so I guess I shouldnt complain. The new computer is set up and is awesome, and I cannot believe I didnt switch sooner. Im a Mac and I dont need to think to get shit done on my computer. Take your Windows 7 idea and go complicate someone’s life, haha.
Well, as a new resident of a southern red state, let me be the first to say, “Y’all, im fixin’ to get goin’ here, but ill still post as the week goes on. Ya’hear?”

New Directions and New Beginnings

Wow, the last week has been a virtual nightmare. Let me just put it that way. On top of a brand new baby, we have had to begin the process of moving to Texas, which makes things infinitely more complicated than they normally would be. I have also begun interviewing for a promotion at work, so the stress level of everything going on has been through the roof, to boot. I sincerely hope that after next week, the only thing going on will be everything with the baby, but we all know that is a pipe dream.

Honestly, some of the most complicated stuff was how to get my card and memorabilia collection to the new place in one piece. Yes, everything is in holders and cases, but I don’t know if I could ever trust anyone with the amount of money that it is worth. So many of those things are irreplaceable, so to find out after the fact that they are missing upon arrival would be devastating. Since we are shipping the cars and no one will be entering the vehicles after we drop them off, I decided to lock everything up in the trunk. Hopefully it all makes it there in one piece, I took extra steps and miles of bubble wrap to ensure safe travel. Who knows, anything is possible though, right?

After yesterday and seeing the complete clusterfuck that the movers perpetuated, I am very glad to be taking that approach. They basically threw everything into boxes, and to think that the same would have happened with my treasured pieces would have been ridiculous. At least the baby was good while they packed everything up, he slept or kept quiet the whole time, despite all the noise and packing tape pulling sounds.

Personally, I cannot wait to get started in San Antonio, as it looks to be a midwestern style town in the south instead of a concrete jungle in the west like LA. I have already gotten a few great suggestions on card shops to make my own, though im not sure how much time I will be able to spend searching them out now. I am a little sad to leave LA, as the opportunities here have been tremendous, but the nature of the city takes my sadness and throws four hours of traffic on it to make me happy I am leaving again.

Although there are no major sports other than basketball in San Antonio, college football is not far away in Austin, which is a whole new world of fandom for me. Im not sure if we will ever make it to a game, but the football culture in Texas is almost as zealous as the religious culture there. Then again, the Trojans were just down the road here and we never went to one of those games, so… yeah.

Lastly, I am looking at this move as a new start to the life of my family, and hopefully it will be a positive one. My new place in San Antonio makes my current one look like the ghetto, so that will be amazing for both me, and my wife who has to stay home all day until the baby gets to be a little older. Regardless, Im trading in my fast paced life in a laid back area for family life in a family oriented mecca, which cant be a bad thing. Here’s to hoping everything works out.