The part to Hamburg was almost exactly what I hoped for: quietly rolling train, green countryside, noisy beer-drinking Danes going to Oktoberfest. Well, two out of three ain't bad. They played Meier most of the way, but with a silly rule where you can just pass on the dice. Wimpy!

As I'm getting closer, my worry about not being good enough increases ( Read more... )

Gaah, panic ( Read more... )

Today was the day of absolute madness. I had until 14:00 to get everything ready and in place for the photographer, and the house was an absolute mess, as was the garden. With help from Dan, our renter, the two of us got so much cleared out that the room looked like something out of a living style magazine, if a magazine with slightly strange ( Read more... )

The crazy continues. Mickey has returned to DSD after having triaged her clothing and a number of other random items. The apartment looks larger than ever since we moved in. There's still odd stuff lying around in the corners, but no more than that we can pack it up in a couple boxes before the photographer gets here ( Read more... )

The moving process continues, and picks up speed. After a weekend with friends and family coming over to say bye, and further furniture rearrangements, the apartment is coming nicely together. Still some stuff to take to storage and various appointments, but by Jove, I think we can make it ( Read more... )

Tonight, after an afternoon of friends coming over to meet me before I take off, our friend Dan and his female friend were in a bed with us. It took a while to figure out to get the right things into the right holes, but then with some banging and screwing everything got nice and tight. We all got rather sweaty, but it was a lot of fun ( Read more... )

My main contribution for getting ready today has been paperwork. There's seemingly an endless stream of papers needing to be found and filled out and sign. But an additional five boxes and various stuff has been made ready to go into storage ( Read more... )

My brother has been here for the last 4 days, helping me rearrange furniture and paint the living room (read: did most of the actual painting while I ran around like a chicken with my head blown off) despite ever-changing plans, slight panics and harmful electrical equipment. I would never have gotten the room so nice so quickly without him. Go bro ( Read more... )

Short and tired post today. We've masked off and painted the first layer in the previously-library-soon-to-be-bedroom. It does indeed look bigger. Enough mess has been removed that I can tell a difference. When my brother called yesterday saying that he'd be here in two hours and I'd promised him a sleeping space, I got the incentive to put the ( Read more... )

Holy Krupp, once the big furniture and dividing bookcase are gone, there's really a whole lot of room in this apartment. Well, except for the masses of books and papers and random stuff standing around, and the couch piled up in disarray and such. But *other* than that ( Read more... )