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updates of the happy variety
Our moving situation has been resolved. Casey spoke to U-Pack yesterday, and they agreed to refund 100% of our moving costs, plus compensate us for all the furniture they destroyed. Huzzah! -
The Great Moving Truck Massacure
Here's Casey's letter to U-Pack about the clusterfuck. All the grizzly details can be found within.
All the photos can be found on Flickr, starting hereWe're asking people to spread the word about this. The company got in touch with us after Casey posted about the disaster on Flickr and Twitter, so we're hoping to put some pressure on them by ( Read more... ) -
the interior of the truck
Photo here.
Mind you, when the truck was packed, the stuff was stacked up to the ceiling.
Special bonus: after this happened, our stuff was taking up more space than we were alloted - 10x15 instead of 10x10. So, before we picked it up, they told us they were charged a few hundred dollars extra for taking up too much space. Um, yeah. -
worst day ever
So, we were to unpack the moving truck and put our stuff in storage today, to wait 'til we find our own place (we're staying with my parents for now ( Read more... ) -
The decade in music
Putting aside all the literalistic questions of whether 2010 is "really" the start of a new decade (because it's all made up anyway and I don't care), I do love all the best of the decade lists have been been coming out over the last few months, particularly as pertains to music. I'm always a nerd for the year-end Best Albums of the Year lists, and ( Read more... ) -
Books read: 2009
Yesterday, reveritas posted her list of books read in 2009, which reminded me I need to do my annual list, too ( Read more... ) -
the last last walk: Thursday
We're out of Oakland now. The movers came yesterday, but we're not flying to Florida until Monday, so until then we're staying with my grandmother in El Cerrito, which is three towns north of Oakland. She lives in the hills, and right now I'm sitting in her living room, looking out the window facing west, which looks down on the East Bay flatlands ( Read more... ) -
the penultimate last walk: Wednesday
Tonight is our last night in Oakland. The movers come tomorrow afternoon, and at some point in the midst of all that I'll take Ava out for our very last walk in Oakland. We're staying with my grandmother in a nearby town until Monday, and then we fly to Orlando. From there, we drive to Tallahassee ( Read more... ) -
The last walks: Tuesday
So, yeah. Another night, another walk. This one was a bit of a change of pace: I actually took my dog on my dog walk! I hadn't been taking her with me because she's been limping - not because she hurt herself, but because the cold, wet weather was bothering her old bones. It's warmed up a lot - we were in the mid-to-low 40s at night for a while ( Read more... ) -
the last walks: Monday
Monday night's walk is one of my newer routes, meaning I started walking it several months ago. I was feeling a bit bored with my dog walks, so I decided to stop doing a couple of the routes and to find new ones to replace them. Mostly, I head north and east, so for the new ones I started heading south and west. I take Shattuck Ave. down to 52nd St ( Read more... )