Arrival in Indiana
News ·Wednesday April 17, 2013 @ 16:35 EDT (link)
For the last week or so we had been packing up the apartment (fortunately we were month to month in anticipation so had no lease to (pay to) break); the big wardrobe boxes we got from the last move (also with Moovers, Inc.) were very helpful, and we were much better prepared and packed, which meant the movers, when they arrived at 0800 Tuesday, were able to finish much faster: they were easily done before noon (the driver, Frank, hired three others: Freddy, his brother Jason, and Paul). When they left, we got lunch and I finished a library book (Poul Anderson's Brainwave), and returned the rest of our books; we came back to do the apartment move-out inspection at 1500, then packed the last items in our cars and headed out, stopping to the cable modem to Bright House, and get Honey a new driver side brake light bulb at Jiffy Lube.
We made it past Atlanta, and at almost 0300 Wednesday stopped at a rest area near I-75 mile 308 to sleep until 0800. Then we pushed on to Fishers, IN, in dire need of shave, shower, and sleep. On arrival at around 1630 we signed the lease papers and unloaded various items from our cars, which had been packed with things deemed too important to leave to the movers: mostly computers and firearms, and sundry other valuables as well as items we wanted to have while waiting for the big truck: sleeping bags, pillows, blankets, a few plates and cooking utensils, camp chairs, etc.
After we had cleaned up a little, we went out to eat—Five Guys, for the first time ever, even though they did have them back in Florida. Carried more stuff in from the cars and moved it around. Crashed hard.
Thursday we ran a few errands: went to the library to stock up on books, stopped by the police station to find out about concealed handgun permits (expensive, especially for something that should never cost anything or even be necessary… but they have "lifetime" permits), got some groceries, and got back in time to get set up for the Comcast Xfinity Internet guy to arrive at around 1700. (All in all, the servers were down for only about two days, which is a record for a move; although email will be down until they unblock our SMTP (port 25) tomorrow. They also practice the evils of MAC-address affinity so I had to clone the address from my laptop.)
Everything looks good… little rainy, but with books and Internet we can handle it. Looking forward to starting work on the 29th.
Books finished: The New Manager's Starter Kit, Brainwave.
