So I realize that in the grand scheme of things Billings is more of a town than a city, but as far as Montana goes it is huge. I’m still not used to it. The residential areas are actually quite nice, while the mall and downtown are much more “city” like. The convenience of having everything close is great.
Enough on Billings. Let me give the highlights of our first month here.
The transmission on Ashley’s truck went out moving day (it’s fixed now). Literally ten minutes out of Columbus we were on the side of the highway trying to figure things out. We limped it to Park City, left it there, unloaded all of our stuff and then went back and trailered it the rest of the way to Billings. I want to take this moment and say thanks to Jesse, Jacob and Jozie for your guys help. Even with the broken truck we still got everything moved in one trip.
Once we got everything moved in, we discovered that the fridge was dead. Our landlord replaced it, but it ended up taking a week. Then we got a bunch of snow, which melted and flooded part of the front room. Our landlord loaned us a carpet cleaner and worked at patching the leak. Lastly the seal on our toilet started leaking. Landlord fixed that too. He has been really great, and if you are looking for a place to rent in Billings I would recommend Brown Properties.
We had to call the cops because the people in the building next to us had a rather physical sounding altercation (at about midnight). Thankfully it was short. By the time I finished calling the police and getting my clothes on, the fight was over and the cops were there. It literally took them about three minutes after my 911 call.
I think those are all the really large events that have happened since our move.
My work at St. John’s is going well, though I need to pay better attention to details… pesky things details. I’ve also been doing quite a bit of IT stuff for BMCR this month. Ashley has been busy with innumerable projects, but a number of those are winding down. She has started looking around for a part time job, but hasn’t filled out any applications yet.
I’ll stop here, as this post has gotten a bit long winded, and seems more disjointed than usual.