Moved; and now I can't.

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Journal by Xerithane on Saturday November 16, 2002 @05:55PM

So yesterday I get into work at 6am, my original plan was to leave at 2. I scratched that because I was mostly finished and I had to come into work today anyway to make up lost time from tonsilitis. I left at 12, picked the UHaul up and my buddy and got started. I hadn't prepared much, which is to say I hadn't really done a damn thing. It was fine, most of my stuff is packed and the stuff that isn't was either waiting for me to unpack in the new place or is furniture.

We get it loadded up, run over a teddy bear a time or 7 (Courtesy of another friend, I got some great video of it though), and are on our way to the new place. The new place is in a somewhat strange location, it's convenient as far as freeway access goes but I swear it's the only place down there that has nasty apartments and they have to be right bloody next to the new house.

I'm renting out two bedrooms in a 4 bedroom condo/townhouse type thing. Get my own bathroom, there is a washer and dryer, the guy who owns the house is really cool. All in all, a great move.

We get down there, park the UHaul in the drive way, and get the task of unloading everything.

Through the years I've acquired a lot of furniture that I just shouldn't own. Not because it isn't nice, because it's a bloody pain in the ass (not literally, unless certain accidents occur) to move, and I move way too often.

180lbs TV. I don't know how big, but it's big. That's like 75kg or something.. not quite sure
140lbs glass dining table. That's just the top, actually. The base is 4 pieces, each probably 20lbs.
~220lbs entertainment stand. This is the bane of my existence

I bought the entertainment stand when I moved into the last place, it came in two boxes. One for the bottom half, one for the top. That was hard to carry up the stairs but wasn't an excercise of anguish and pain. Carrying it down a flight of stairs, then back up a flight of stairs is a good way to kill oneself. Good thing I paid some friends $5 a piece to move it myself. I pulled a muscle in my back carrying it down, and I knew full well I was completely unable to carry it up. $10 to save massive back trauma. I can deal with that.

The move went pretty good, thanks to Jon. His friends came towards the end and helped unload some stuff, which made a world of difference. Last night I got my bedroom setup which took about an hour, and then I took a nice hot bath. Regardless of what they say, baths are nice. Call me a pansy, I really couldn't care less. I slept so ridiculously well last night, I woke up at 7am this morning (after sleeping at a bit before 1am) and felt like I was mostly dead (Think princess bride). Went back to sleep, woke up at 9am and felt fantastic. I arranged most the office, everything fits. The office now has a futon, the entertainment stand from the dimension of pain and torture, two desks, and soon 2 laptops, 3 desktops, and a router. Along with miscellaneous video game systems I've accrued over the years. NES, SNES, Genesis, PSX, Dream Cast, and a GameCube. I don't even play video games, yet I still have all of these. I play Soul Caliber and Tony Hawk on the DC and that's it. Don't ask why I have them... there is no good answer.

The office has a walk in closet, that is filled from top to bottom with the rest of my stuff. I need to rearrange it because I'd like to be able to close the closet door and the designers apparently assigned the closet design to their 5 year old autistic nephew because the door goes to the inside. It doesn't swing out, it swings in. This is the stupidest thing I've seen as it completely removes a good half the wall behind the door, and the storage space needed for the door. You wouldn't lose any surface area in the room by having the door swing out. It just would swing out into a small wall between that and the entrance. I blame paint chips.

Have a DSL kit, and DSL ready to go there but I haven't hooked it up yet. I brought over the router and 2 laptops last night thinking maybe I would do it. I'll have to get to it today.

So, I'm all finished moving, and I can't move my arms above my chest. I think I traversed about 50 flights of stairs yesterday, and I'm rather exhausted. I still have to go get the rest of my computers, and my game consoles, and the VCR/DVD player, and the rice cooker, and my pots and pans, it's going to be a long night...

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