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Clearly the only reasonable thing to do when waking up early on the weekend is get out in the yard and do some gardening and then head off to the self-storage facility as soon as it's open to start moving loads before it gets hot. After a couple of loads I made contact with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ermine_rat and family who showed up with their truck to help out with the multi-person objects. But when I attempted to thank them and send them on their way after the Big Object load, they insisted on seeing the job through. So after having given the storage folks notice in the morning that I'd be clearing my spaces out before they came due for renewal in three weeks ... I ended up emptying them by mid-afternoon. I hear a rumor that the temperature got up to 104F.
My original plan to check each object off on the spreadsheet as I unloaded it crumbled in the face of "get this done before we melt into little puddles" so we just stacked everything in a relatively solid mass in the middle of the garage. When the box-moving was done, I had some more running around to do. This included the return of the Really Cool Kitchen Trash Can that didn't actually fit in the space intended. (It was an under-sink model on rails so that you could pull it out to put stuff in. Alas, it didn't fit around my sink plumbing.) Also: total failure to find another kitchen trash can I found acceptable. Particularly if it's going to be visible, I've decided I want something nice looking: brushed steel or the like, with a foot-controlled lid. Maybe one with separate compartments for trash and recycling. Simple Human has one with all these features. It also costs $180. I can't quite get my brain around paying that much for a trash can -- even a nice one. Various FB friends have suggested checking out office supply stores rather than home furnishings. I may see what Fry's can offer.
After it started cooling down, I tackled Box Mountain in the garage, checked everything off on the inventories, and moved enough stuff into its interim locations that I could put the car back in the garage. (The key goal for the evening.) So the fabric and project boxes are stacked in what will be their eventual location. The non-fiction boxes are stacked neatly along the back wall of the garage, with a smaller stack of non-book paperwork boxes. (Many of these are intended for scanning and discarding, so they may never move permanently into the house.) The SCA/sports/garden equipment was piled randomly on the righthand side of the garage last night, so I tackled that part this morning while it was still cool. As with the fabric, things are now organized after a fashion in the same area as their planned final location, although not in their final configuration. (Eventually I want to build permanent shelving for this stuff, but for now I'm using a couple of utility cabinets that I don't need for their previous functions.)
When the furniture container gets unloaded, there will be the problem of where to put the tool cabinets, since their permanent home is roughly where the non-fiction is currently located. But I'll cope. Today the goal is to get the kitchen stuff put away and go through other boxes to identify things that don't need furniture to be put away.
I've also downloaded manuals for my sprinkler system and 7-day programmable thermostat and have set myself the goal of learning how to use them properly. And I need to get a short extension cord that I can run from the second outlet for the garage door opener over to where the sprinkler control is located so that I can continue operating it until I get around to the second round of electrical work.
On the down side, it turns out I'll be living without internet at home for a little longer as Comcast rescheduled my connection appointment from Tuesday to Thursday. They didn't actually tell me they'd done so, much less consult with me. I'm not sure how they thought they were going to get access to the house without making sure someone would actually be home for the appointment. I've requested a reschedule for next weekend instead and have yet to get positive confirmation of this. Comcast has now used up their one free screw-up. Anything else happens before installation and I cancel an go with Astound after all.
ermine_rat and family who showed up with their truck to help out with the multi-person objects. But when I attempted to thank them and send them on their way after the Big Object load, they insisted on seeing the job through. So after having given the storage folks notice in the morning that I'd be clearing my spaces out before they came due for renewal in three weeks ... I ended up emptying them by mid-afternoon. I hear a rumor that the temperature got up to 104F.My original plan to check each object off on the spreadsheet as I unloaded it crumbled in the face of "get this done before we melt into little puddles" so we just stacked everything in a relatively solid mass in the middle of the garage. When the box-moving was done, I had some more running around to do. This included the return of the Really Cool Kitchen Trash Can that didn't actually fit in the space intended. (It was an under-sink model on rails so that you could pull it out to put stuff in. Alas, it didn't fit around my sink plumbing.) Also: total failure to find another kitchen trash can I found acceptable. Particularly if it's going to be visible, I've decided I want something nice looking: brushed steel or the like, with a foot-controlled lid. Maybe one with separate compartments for trash and recycling. Simple Human has one with all these features. It also costs $180. I can't quite get my brain around paying that much for a trash can -- even a nice one. Various FB friends have suggested checking out office supply stores rather than home furnishings. I may see what Fry's can offer.
After it started cooling down, I tackled Box Mountain in the garage, checked everything off on the inventories, and moved enough stuff into its interim locations that I could put the car back in the garage. (The key goal for the evening.) So the fabric and project boxes are stacked in what will be their eventual location. The non-fiction boxes are stacked neatly along the back wall of the garage, with a smaller stack of non-book paperwork boxes. (Many of these are intended for scanning and discarding, so they may never move permanently into the house.) The SCA/sports/garden equipment was piled randomly on the righthand side of the garage last night, so I tackled that part this morning while it was still cool. As with the fabric, things are now organized after a fashion in the same area as their planned final location, although not in their final configuration. (Eventually I want to build permanent shelving for this stuff, but for now I'm using a couple of utility cabinets that I don't need for their previous functions.)
When the furniture container gets unloaded, there will be the problem of where to put the tool cabinets, since their permanent home is roughly where the non-fiction is currently located. But I'll cope. Today the goal is to get the kitchen stuff put away and go through other boxes to identify things that don't need furniture to be put away.
I've also downloaded manuals for my sprinkler system and 7-day programmable thermostat and have set myself the goal of learning how to use them properly. And I need to get a short extension cord that I can run from the second outlet for the garage door opener over to where the sprinkler control is located so that I can continue operating it until I get around to the second round of electrical work.
On the down side, it turns out I'll be living without internet at home for a little longer as Comcast rescheduled my connection appointment from Tuesday to Thursday. They didn't actually tell me they'd done so, much less consult with me. I'm not sure how they thought they were going to get access to the house without making sure someone would actually be home for the appointment. I've requested a reschedule for next weekend instead and have yet to get positive confirmation of this. Comcast has now used up their one free screw-up. Anything else happens before installation and I cancel an go with Astound after all.
