An overdue moving update, from Arundel Apts
Hi! Zathras (the computer) and I are both at least semi-alive and in the new apartment, so hurrah God!
Both of us are missing things at the moment.
A Printer & Scanner
I have no idea where Zathras' printer & scanner are. Many people helped to do last minute packing--and a common label coming out of that effort was "office". Common as on maybe 30+ boxes, many of which are hiding under and stacked between other boxes with ordinary "Liv. Rm." labels.
In the living room alone, the numbers of stacks across the width of the room varies from 4 to 5 with a single gap between 2 or 3 stacks. Looking lengthwise down the room, the stacks begin pressed up within less than a foot of the balcony doors and they continued in solid formation sometimes four across up to the tiny gap where a couple of chairs are hiding. Between the "chair gap" and the bookcases against the far wall are more stacks of boxes, in clumps of 3 or two or just one.
The printer and scanner--and their cables--could be anywhere in that. Actually, either may have flown the coop all the way into the study. (Not everything necessarily hit the correct destination room, during this massive effort as orchestrated by Pastor Philip. Obviously that was the plan but with so many people involved glitches happened. One of the funny categories of glitches involves various bits of stuff making the trip that were never intended to do so--things like one piece each from two broken and dumpstered old bookcases.
Oh. Also my alarm clock got packed & has yet to turn up.
B. Important documents in a NaNoWriMo canvas carry bag.
Somewhere between Mid-Thursday afternoon and perhaps at late as Saturday, I managed to part ways with my canvas carry bag which was holding important documents, topped off with my copy of my lease. I'm trying not to panic about this but I am on the verge of it. The lease can be replaced with a certain outlay of embarrassment in the process. I'd rather strangers not see my budget calculations but I'll survive if I get them back. However the bag also contained at minimum a bank statement, the start of my collection of data for tax purposes, and a couple of folders with data involving dealings with a couple of "errant" businesses. I'd rather never find the printer and be forced to buy yet another one rather than lose the papers!
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Moving on, the apartment building is very quiet, which is an enormous relief! Out in the hall during my first visit here, I just caught the sound of music from the apartment catty-corner from mine. I've heard a couple of dogs bark, once or twice but not loudly or persistently. I may actually find myself the noisiest tenant, based on my experience so far. ;-P Turns out I have two walk-in closets, the expected one in the bedroom and the surprise in the hall between the living room and the bedroom. On the floor plan, I thought that this second closet was the laundry room. (W/D are actually in a tiny kitchen nook.)
All windows seem to be uniformly 4' x 4' and all have mini-blinds. (One of the bedroom windows is now bereft of its mini-blinds though my dim-bulb-ness or clumsiness or something--I was trying to lower the blinds with the cord when the whole assemblage dropped free from the window frame. Oopsie! First call to maintenance on Monday,
The glass panels and door leading the the balcony has standard--sized vertical blinds. The only things out of the balcony--so far as I can tell--are the table still in its two parts and some of my seashell collection. So far as I can see, the chairs and my big storage cabinet are among the missing. However it's hard for me to be sure since there's only inches of leave-way between the stacked boxes and the balcony glass. Right now, I can only peek out at the balcony from one corner. If the storage cabinet is still back at the old apartment, I don't know what I'll do.
The balcony and the windows in the study and dining room both face toward the short section of Arundel Drive between the turn off from Limestone (a fairly busy multi-lane road that's not quite a highway) & the entrance driveway to the apt complex. This stretch of road isn't really that close though I can hear the distant swish of cars going by. I'll wildly hazard that it's 200 yards between this my of the bldg and the road. Most of this is just grass but there's a patchy screen of trees along the edge of the road, and a grove in the ground covered with brush that my be a natural stream or a culvert.The bedroom has two windows--one facing the same way as those above, and the second one (near the head of my bed) facing toward the rental office and the section of Crosswalk Drive that leads to this outlying arc of buildings.
The kitchen is stainless steel and has a counter that I think is supposed to be granite but I doubt it. Microwave built in over the largish stove. The now "de rigor" dishwasher. As a woman in her 60's who remembers living in a house without electricity, heat or running water when I was a tot, I find all of this far over the top. I wish I could send half of the stuff in the kitchen off to someone who would appreciate the extras, in exchange for more counter space and storage under counter level. I have my small microwave which serves all my small purposes and have never used a dishwasher in my life.. Consequently, I've been trying to come up with strategies for removing the big microwave and stashing it in the dishwasher. Alas not enough room. :)
The cats had a few rough days Friday & Saturday but are settling in now. Really enjoying all the new "sniffies" I think. Much more on them later!
Both of us are missing things at the moment.
A Printer & Scanner
I have no idea where Zathras' printer & scanner are. Many people helped to do last minute packing--and a common label coming out of that effort was "office". Common as on maybe 30+ boxes, many of which are hiding under and stacked between other boxes with ordinary "Liv. Rm." labels.
In the living room alone, the numbers of stacks across the width of the room varies from 4 to 5 with a single gap between 2 or 3 stacks. Looking lengthwise down the room, the stacks begin pressed up within less than a foot of the balcony doors and they continued in solid formation sometimes four across up to the tiny gap where a couple of chairs are hiding. Between the "chair gap" and the bookcases against the far wall are more stacks of boxes, in clumps of 3 or two or just one.
The printer and scanner--and their cables--could be anywhere in that. Actually, either may have flown the coop all the way into the study. (Not everything necessarily hit the correct destination room, during this massive effort as orchestrated by Pastor Philip. Obviously that was the plan but with so many people involved glitches happened. One of the funny categories of glitches involves various bits of stuff making the trip that were never intended to do so--things like one piece each from two broken and dumpstered old bookcases.
Oh. Also my alarm clock got packed & has yet to turn up.
B. Important documents in a NaNoWriMo canvas carry bag.
Somewhere between Mid-Thursday afternoon and perhaps at late as Saturday, I managed to part ways with my canvas carry bag which was holding important documents, topped off with my copy of my lease. I'm trying not to panic about this but I am on the verge of it. The lease can be replaced with a certain outlay of embarrassment in the process. I'd rather strangers not see my budget calculations but I'll survive if I get them back. However the bag also contained at minimum a bank statement, the start of my collection of data for tax purposes, and a couple of folders with data involving dealings with a couple of "errant" businesses. I'd rather never find the printer and be forced to buy yet another one rather than lose the papers!
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Moving on, the apartment building is very quiet, which is an enormous relief! Out in the hall during my first visit here, I just caught the sound of music from the apartment catty-corner from mine. I've heard a couple of dogs bark, once or twice but not loudly or persistently. I may actually find myself the noisiest tenant, based on my experience so far. ;-P Turns out I have two walk-in closets, the expected one in the bedroom and the surprise in the hall between the living room and the bedroom. On the floor plan, I thought that this second closet was the laundry room. (W/D are actually in a tiny kitchen nook.)
All windows seem to be uniformly 4' x 4' and all have mini-blinds. (One of the bedroom windows is now bereft of its mini-blinds though my dim-bulb-ness or clumsiness or something--I was trying to lower the blinds with the cord when the whole assemblage dropped free from the window frame. Oopsie! First call to maintenance on Monday,
The glass panels and door leading the the balcony has standard--sized vertical blinds. The only things out of the balcony--so far as I can tell--are the table still in its two parts and some of my seashell collection. So far as I can see, the chairs and my big storage cabinet are among the missing. However it's hard for me to be sure since there's only inches of leave-way between the stacked boxes and the balcony glass. Right now, I can only peek out at the balcony from one corner. If the storage cabinet is still back at the old apartment, I don't know what I'll do.
The balcony and the windows in the study and dining room both face toward the short section of Arundel Drive between the turn off from Limestone (a fairly busy multi-lane road that's not quite a highway) & the entrance driveway to the apt complex. This stretch of road isn't really that close though I can hear the distant swish of cars going by. I'll wildly hazard that it's 200 yards between this my of the bldg and the road. Most of this is just grass but there's a patchy screen of trees along the edge of the road, and a grove in the ground covered with brush that my be a natural stream or a culvert.The bedroom has two windows--one facing the same way as those above, and the second one (near the head of my bed) facing toward the rental office and the section of Crosswalk Drive that leads to this outlying arc of buildings.
The kitchen is stainless steel and has a counter that I think is supposed to be granite but I doubt it. Microwave built in over the largish stove. The now "de rigor" dishwasher. As a woman in her 60's who remembers living in a house without electricity, heat or running water when I was a tot, I find all of this far over the top. I wish I could send half of the stuff in the kitchen off to someone who would appreciate the extras, in exchange for more counter space and storage under counter level. I have my small microwave which serves all my small purposes and have never used a dishwasher in my life.. Consequently, I've been trying to come up with strategies for removing the big microwave and stashing it in the dishwasher. Alas not enough room. :)
The cats had a few rough days Friday & Saturday but are settling in now. Really enjoying all the new "sniffies" I think. Much more on them later!