{"id":3465,"date":"2005-08-10T08:33:34","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T15:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/10\/the-search-has-begun\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T00:01:04","slug":"the-search-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/10\/the-search-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Search Has Begun&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Prairie and I looked at an apartment yesterday evening up in North Seattle (just off the 130th St. exit from I-5) that looks really good. A 1960&#8217;s-era apartment complex, decent sized 2-bedroom with fairly new appliances in the kitchen, ground level (but rather than being open to the street, it&#8217;s half-sunk and looks out into a rock garden with cherry trees), parking spaces, a storage locker, good laundry room (not in the unit, but good sized and with new machines), a pool (!), and only a few blocks away from her sister. Looks <em>very<\/em> promising, and the landlord was a sweet lady who&#8217;s very involved with the neighborhood community.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got two more to look at today &#8212; another also off the 130th St. exit that Prairie will be looking at today while I&#8217;m at work, and one roughly halfway between Green Lake and Carkeek Park that we&#8217;ll both see this evening &#8212; so with any luck, one of those three will be <em>the<\/em> place, and we&#8217;ll be able to put money down and start the process of moving within the next week or two.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to miss being with walking distance of downtown a bit, but the tradeoff is <em>more<\/em> than worth it (finding a 2-bedroom in the $800\/mo range just isn&#8217;t very easy this close to central Seattle), and between Prairie&#8217;s car and the bus system, it&#8217;s still a quick jaunt into the core of Seattle for when I want to come in for clubbing, wandering around, or anything else I might want to do down here.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re keeping our fingers crossed, but at least judging by yesterday&#8217;s showing, things are looking very promising. Yay!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DImpossibles, The%2526albumTerm=Ska: The 3rd Wave, Vol. 4: Punk it Up!%2526songTerm=So Much%26 partnerId%3D30\">So Much<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1= itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DImpossibles, The%26partnerId%3D30\">Impossibles, The<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DImpossibles, The%2526albumTerm=Ska: The 3rd Wave, Vol. 4: Punk it Up!%26partnerId%3D30\">Ska: The 3rd Wave, Vol. 4: Punk it Up!<\/a><\/em> (1998, 3:23).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prairie and I looked at an apartment yesterday evening up in North Seattle (just off the 130th St. exit from I-5) that looks really good. We&#8217;re keeping our fingers crossed, but at least judging by yesterday&#8217;s showing, things are looking very promising. Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}