More or less moved in

Ok, so if you were playing along with the Flickr account, you know that on Sunday the truck finally showed up with our stuff. Apparently the way it works is that it goes from a small truck to a large truck to a hub to a large truck to your door. That hub just so happened to be in Ohio.

Nonetheless, two guys showed up to move everything in. They got in around ten a.m. and had it all done within five hours. Not too bad considering the bulky furniture and the bevy of boxen. We basically set it up all over the place and are slowly paring it down as we approach our first big holiday here in the Heartland. Fortunately we have a storage unit downstairs and some shopping carts available (don't ask) to make moving easier. I must say that having someone else move you is a wonderful experience. Well, maybe except for the part where you don't have stuff for a week and are forced to sleep on a lousy air mattress. Oh, and since there are no chairs, you get to ... sit around on a lousy air mattress, too.

We also found out that while hardwood floors are mighty pretty, these ones don't have any padding underneath. It's just wood glued on concrete. So after standing around on it for about half an hour (in bare feet or socks) your feet do ache.

On to the best parts. Like, as I said before, the walk to work. It's incredible, this, a simple five minute walk to work. Past a concert hall, through a little downtown park/mall type thingy. And yes, that park/mall type thingy will be lit up on Thursday night with thousands of lights for the holiday season. So hurrah! The evening walks will be even better.

The job is going very well although things are off to a slow start. I don't mind this so much since I have some work to do and am not worried about stupid upper-management types making lousy decisions on staffing up too fast for work that's not there. There are a half dozen of us now, and BossCo says it's going to stay lean for quite a few months until the workload levels out at a higher rate.

I have already traveled to Lincoln, NE for work. We got to drive past the stadium which was sort of neat I guess. I am also slated to travel to San Jose, Fresno and St. Louis. All of that will be by the end of the year. Plus two more trips down to Lincoln -- it's about 45 minutes away. The other three will get at least one or two more visits each during the winter and early spring as projects get developed, executed and closed out. These are small projects, so a few can be piled on at a time.

I think I haven't talked about the packing and the move here. Well, I'll get to that later. But know that the Jetta Diesel did make it from Indy to Omaha on just one tank of diesel. And no, the gas light didn't come on, either. I drove it for about 50 more miles until it came on.