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February 3, 2005
Moving day
The movers arrived at the house around 9 this morning - two big trucks, plus Dawnise's car. They left around 5:30pm, having unloaded all our worldly goods into the house. Most everything arrived (two missing items, neither of which seem terribly important) in good condition (they broke a half-dozen things, including some cosmetic damage to the TV, a turn signal on one of the motorcycles, and a couple less relevant items). Can't complain about the crew - they busted their asses moving Dawnise's fabric down stairs, and did a respectable job of not tracking the mud around the house onto the new carpet.
Watching the stream of crap, er, stuff, come off the truck, I was struck repeatedly by the fact that we've lived without all that for three months, and with very few exceptions, I really haven't missed it. I'm going to make a point of inspecting items I unpack with a critical eye.
In the midst of all that chaos, a few folks arrived to do last minute touch-ups on the house - fix a door that wasn't balanced, seal a leak in the rain gutters (which they don't seem to have actually fixed), and survey the site for cable.
Oh, yea, cable.
So Comcast was only to happy to sell me cable modem service (and a cable modem) based on my install address. Turns out, however, that there's no cable service on our (private) street - so I may end up with a cable modem and nothing to do with it. Fortunately, getting DSL (from Qwest) seems relatively straightforward (knock on wood).
Also noteworthy is that we've already met three neighbors, and been invited to a progressive dinner this Saturday evening. Not sure we'll make it to dinner, but we're going to give it a shot.
Today was also the first time we've seen the house actually finished. The builder and crew did a good job addressing the small touch-up items we had identified, and the appliance folks delivered and installed our new range and washer dryer, as promised.
Before leaving the island we started unpacking the kitchen - it's got a bit less storage space than our custom kitchen in CA, but I think we'll do OK. It's got a good layout, and it's large enough that we could get a free-standing island for additional storage if necessary.
Dawnise will be going back over tomorrow, while I go back to work and pretend to concentrate (while, in fact, thinking about all the work we have to do at the house getting it unpacked and ready for a house-warming party). Tomorrow afternoon the garage door installer is coming out to replace a dented panel, Saturday our new mattress is being delivered, Sunday DirecTV is showing up to install service, and Monday the pool table folks are coming to setup the table. Save for the garage door guy, each of those requires some form of prep work from me - so I've got a busy few days ahead.
Oh, and at some point this weekend I really need to install a mailbox, or Dawnise will go crazy...
Posted by dberger at February 3, 2005 8:53 PM