Well, I'm here checking in.
With Que and Julia's help we got much of the bigger boxes and stuff on Saturday. One Sunday Aimee and I made a few runs to our old place and managed to get a couple more things and smaller furniture. Next Saturday we're having movers bring over our bigger furniture and we should be pretty much done. The thing is we're now at that annoying stage where much of what's left for us to take is a bunch of random little crap that's sorta been strewn around the old apartment over the past three years. It's pretty much a matter of going around the place with bags and just throwing the junk in so we can sort it out later.
We can't really settle too much in the new place, however. First is the big furniture isn't here yet, which was expected so it's not so bad. The annoying thing is our stove and oven simply arn't connected to the electical circuits, the cabnet underneath the stove needs to be fixed, my closet doors don't slide and need to be worked on, and, finally, our phone lines don't seem to working on our end so those have to be worked on. With all that stuff that needs to be worked on, I don't want to have to unpack a lot of stuff only to have to move it so things can be worked on. You know? Hopefully the management doesn't try and drag their feet on this.
The internet situation is a bit funny as well. We are just doing a service transfer to our new address, but when the guy came to hook everything up on Sunday we simply didn't have a computer up. So, he did what he could and made sure the line was working. Everything seemed cool. Tonight I just got much computer hooked up, but it seemed there was a problem. Apparently when you just get a Comcast account going now they have this thing where every webpage you visit is this Comcast setup page where you download some installation wizard. That wizard makes sure you're accually connected and stuff, then asks you for your account number so it can register your modem with the homebase. Well, I never got a new number, so I used my old one... big mistake. For some reason it never really clicked over with registration. Short version of the remaining story is a 20 minute call with a cool but slightly confused tech got the connection to work, but it's apparently using my old account number. He doesn't even know how that happened, but the account is running until someone decides to really flip the switch abd turn off the our old account. When that does happen, my connection will die and I have to go through the wizard again using my new account number, which he provided.
So yeah, fun stuff. Next few weeks are going to be nice and hectic while we get all this stuff fixed. Good news is, once everything is fixed this place is going to be freaking awesome. We really like everything, we just gotta get more bugs than usual worked out.
