First: We all (MJ, the cats and myself) arrived safely in San Francisco Tuesday evening.
Friday I signed over the title for Blinker to my friend Nita. MJ arrived in Philly Saturday and we spent the day running errands that couldn’t be done Sunday or President’s day. One of the tasks we needed to do was get eight boxes of Media Mail shipments out. Unfortunately we missed the cutoff for the Pottstown post office and ended up heading down to Philadelphia to make the shipments at the city post office – which was quite the adventure! First of all they failed to make a pathway through the snow from the street parking to the entrance, so we got to take turns hauling heavy boxes of books over a snowbank. Then I stood in line for 45 minutes as the poorly staffed office slowly processed the line. Everything ended up ok though, and we headed up to Chestnut Hill for dinner with Nita.
Sunday was spent prepping for the move, dropped off a number of things I didn’t need any longer to some friends and then headed out for an absolutely amazing surprise Valentine’s Day dinner at The Melting Pot in King of Prussia. Yum!
Monday was the major day for move stuff. MJ picked up the truck and we met Heidi and Mike Greb at the apartment in the morning to help with the move (thanks again guys!). Once the truck was loaded up we met up with MJ’s friend Mike (there are too many Mikes) at storage to rearrange storage and put some of my furniture and boxes in, a process which when much more quickly than we had anticipated thanks to Mike’s help. From there we went directly to FedEx to ship out another dozen boxes. Then we dropped off the truck and headed out to dinner, just in time for some flurries to start. On the way back to the apartment we checked into the hotel (since my apartment was empty, no bed!) and checked in.. and resisted the temptation to take a nap. Back at the apartment we spent a couple hours finishing packing up the suitcases and cleaning the apartment.
Tuesday morning we awoke to more flurries, and a bit of worry as to whether there would be any flight problems. We swung by the apartment to pick up the cats, do a final quick once-over of the apartment and to turn in the apartment keys. Then it was off to the airport!
Lucky for us there were no flight delays, the flurries stopped around noon and everything went as MJ had so perfectly planned. We arrived in San Francisco in the early evening and after dropping off the luggage at the condo had plenty of time to swing by the pet store for some cat necessities before heading to Delta’s Cargo office to pick up the cats. I was so relieved when we picked them up and they were doing well.
Wednesday we ran a number of errands here in SF and my first FedEx box came in – my firewall! Which allowed me to start setting up my network on Thursday. We wrapped up the day by swinging by Jake’s Steaks for a real Philly cheesesteak made by Philly natives with imported Amoroso rolls.
I start work again on Monday and most of my stuff gets shipped in early next week. I’m still pretty exhausted from this move and still have a lot to do, hopefully I’ll be settled in and be able to get back into project work over the next few weeks. But right now, I’m so excited to be here!
Saturday, Feb 20th, 2010 at 0:19
Finally, the distant thing called ‘move’ has happened without hitches :-)
Saturday, Feb 20th, 2010 at 3:40
Hello,
indeed, relocations are a horrible thing. I’m glad you are almost through it now. Last time I relocated I left all my furniture behind me. That was such a relief. The second worse thing after the furniture are the books. But I kept them. All of them.
Regards
hmmw
Saturday, Feb 20th, 2010 at 13:22
great to see that your great cross country transportation went off without any major hitches. If only you had the millennium falcon :) May you new life be better and include more pink things!