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Moving Day - Part 6

Yesterday's move took almost 12 hours, and we were nigh unto exhausted when we returned the final time from picking up the cats and the refrigerator food, but nothing's broken and everything's pretty much where we'd planned it to be. Uh, except for all the boxes, of course. :) Datsa kept us up most of the night mewling happily about the house (is he the only cat who marks his territory verbally, or is this common?), so we're a bit bleary today, but pretty much on schedule. The cable got hooked up this morning, so all I missed was Bob Woodward on The Daily Show last night, but I'm sure by the time we have DSL next Friday someone will have it online somewhere. All the finances are sorted and May rent check went out to the new landlord today, the bedroom's pretty well set, and my project for this weekend is unpacking the kitchen stuff. But first we had to come back here to the old place (which totally doesn't feel like home any more!), pack up the computers and do a quick Swiffering and vacuuming.

Remember the water department folks from Wednesday? They're back. How lucky are we that we moved out right between the two days they were working? The road outside this building is closed because they're paving over whatever they did on Wednesday, but we were still able to get in the service entrance, and I feel like we can pretty much take our time (if we weren't so exhausted). Of course, we still need to do our food shopping so we have something to eat that we don't need to heat or cook (the microwave and oven area are inaccessible at the moment due to unpacked boxes), and I'm not relishing climbing those 28 steps with shopping bags, but honestly, it's no worse than climbing out of a subway station, and I won't be using those any more for the most part so I think I can deal with it. :)

So I'll be checking my e-mail one last time before signing off for the weekend - with all that needs organizing in the new place, and considering our lack of sleep, it's just not that much of a priority at this point for us to hook up the 'puters, at least until we get DSL. Hanan, keep up the great work, and thanks again! See y'all on Monday!