Start-up in Pittsburgh

I drove 6 hours to get here, and as soon as I got here I hurriedly unpacked all my boxes and drove straight to ikea to grab all the furniture I wanted. The next day, I ran into problem after problem with banking, car buying, license obtaining, etc. and this has led to me having to rent a car for the entire first month here, possibly longer if the government decides to slow-roll my social security card.

I've managed to set up a few things, a few others are still in the wind. Building all the damn furniture took forever. If anyone reading this ever wants to buy ikea furniture, the first thing they should buy is an electric screwdriver. I didn't know the wood components of ikea's pieces have un-recessed holes and require the use of wood screws to fasten them together. Wood screws are not the easiest thing in the world to work with and they can be quite tiresome when almost every piece of furniture one has is from ikea.

I was very upset with my bike shop for not properly tuning my bike because I thought it'd take forever to me to do it myself. It took 4 minutes. I don't understand how it took so long in the past, possibly because I was also doing other things to the bike as well and it therefore took longer at a time for me to work on the bike.

The area around me looks poor, but everyone has assured me it is safe, and I have a security system in my house, so I guess it's all good. I hope nothing bad happens, but I'm going to be sensible about things nonetheless; don't flash cash, don't leave doors or windows open, keep blinds drawn, etc etc etc.

I placed pieces of cardboard on top of my bedroom windows and duct taped them to the window frame, so now there's minimal light shining through in the morning. I'm gonna optimize that in the coming months with more cardboard. I'm gonna go fold my laundry, shave for the first time in five days, and sleep early. Tomorrow I will ride in the morning, and then I'll cook for the week and start an early-rise healthy-eating exercising routine for the first time in months. Everyone was asking how excited I was to move and to start here, and I kept telling them that moving was this and unpacking was that and work, work, work etc etc etc. Just now, though, just as I wrote that .... I felt a bit excited. It's nice to look forward to things.