Hola, Amigos. I’ve been periscope down in no-DSL-at-the-new-house land for the last few days. Rough to have to look in a phone book to get numbers, but it’s nice to be home.
The move, for the most part, went off without incident. Well, sort of, I guess. When I went to pick up the truck, I learned that U-Haul’s 26′ trucks are much more manual transmission than I thought they were. I drive a stick maybe once every six or seven years. Though I was due, I (wisely, IMO) decided against and called friends to beg. Thanks, Clancey, for the bail out, and thanks also to Tej for offering to do as much.
(Note: I’m at a coffee shop right now and they’re playing “Hey Ya” on the radio machine. I can’t think of a song that makes me want to smash the speakers with a bat more than this song does.)
Anyway, we got my place loaded up quickly enough. Sorry about the boxes of books. I wasn’t trying to hurt anybody with those. Honest. Stephanie’s place also packed up smoothly enough. Which is braggable.
(Note #2: My text editor doesn’t believe that “braggable” is a real word. Silly text editor.)
(Whatever: It’s playing the Fugees now. A huge step up.)
So now we have the furniture moved in, the kid’s stuff is there, Stephanie and I each have a suitcase or so’s worth of clothing and what have you. Hopefully we’ll get the boxes in the garage unpacked before too long. I estimate that we’ll definitely be done by the end of 2007.
I can’t sufficiently thank the people who came out and schlepped our stuff around the SGV. The move would have been a nightmare without you. It’s comforting to have friends willing to spend a perfectly good Sunday in the back of a U-Haul in order to help out. You guys rock. You’re all welcome over for beers and deck sitting. The same goes for all of you who couldn’t make it on account of prior commitments. Except for Pat, who I know scheduled his family’s vacation months in advance, before I knew that we were going to buy the place even, just to get out of the move.
If the move wasn’t enough excitement, today was The Kid’s first day at his new school. It. Looks. Nice. When he walked in, the desks were all the way stocked with books and colored pencils and glue and what have you. The campus is beautiful, his teacher is cool, parents were swarming everywhere in a good way, and everybody seemed pretty happy to be there. All of these are good signs. One odd observation between this and his last school: there are a lot more parents in ironic t-shirts than before. I don’t know what this means.
(Which reminds me: I still need to call his old school district and let them know that he won’t be there. Crap.)
Anyway, it’s been busy times. The “WTF am I ever going to use this for?” Blackberry has been burning up the airwaves while I sit at home and wait for things to be delivered. Hooray for understanding bosses. We have 1,000,001 things going on again this weekend, but hopefully I’ll get to take another crack at some of the boxes. Who knows, we may be able to put our cars in the garage before the end of the year. ;)
6 responses to “Moving is fun!”
Congrats on getting into your new home. Let us know how we can help out with unpacking and such. (Arrgh, now I have Hey Ya stuck in my head…)
Hey Yeah, unpacking boxes is a pain. Especially when you are looking at a box and have no idea what is in it. My advise is to shake it. Shake it. Shake it like a pollaroid picture.
I understand the 7th Hell of No Internet. Heidi and I generally try to have the internet scheduled for the day we move in. If it precedes the phone, that’s ok. Getting the refrigerator in first day is great. After all, what’s cooler than being cool? Ice Cold- that’s what.
School sounds nice. I don’t think I can even contemplate droppnig off O for her first day at a new school. But you’ve done it before, so you know what to do. You know what to do. You know what to do.
Hey yeah, -hb
I like Outkast. I give them a 42 but I can’t dance to them.
As for the series of tubes, it was supposed to be available last Friday, but I’m currently getting a whole big heapin’ helping of “oh, it looks like Covad is having issues dealing with the telco” from my ISP. Oh well.
Major congrats on the new home. I have yet to see the place.
As for the stick shift experience… one more reason to mainly drive with a stick shift: you’ll never be stuck in a situation going, “this would be a lot safer if I was used to driving a stick shift.”
Moves suck, and the longer you’ve been alive accumulating material goods, the worse them seem to be. If you guys are actually 100% moved in by New Year’s Day 2007, you are way better people than we are.
I must say, one nice side effect of having one of those bulky/obnoxious WinCE phones with EV-DO support is you don’t miss DSL as much when it is not available (or the morely scenario: your cat knocks over and breaks your router ;-).
Yeah, every time the stick thing comes up I think along the same lines. But it only happens once eery few years, so I don’t worry too much.
You know, I have a bulky crazyphone, but at current there’s no good way to tether a blackberry to a Mac. There’s a bounty out for as much (http://www.alexking.org/blog/index.php?s=blackberry+bounty&submit=search), but as far as I know it hasn’t been claimed yet. (And I’m not with it enough to have Parallels or Bootcamp running usefully, so….)