–Moving day. David and Joe from A Couple Great Movers (and good weather) got the furniture over with only a dropped file cabinet for $460. Now that everything is here, I believe unpacking will take forever.
–Went to Starbucks for wifi. That place, once a haven for me, has lost it. Undrinkable Americano, and the cream/sugar bar is empty: you have to ask for x packets of sugar, and they pour some cream (milk?) from a jug into a paper cup. Just awful.
–Bone tired. Took a load over; set up the house for mover access. Brought bikes over. Got an estimate of $500 for cleaning Tunnel Hill. Junk guy is coming over Thursday to haul stuff. Notary is coming over Thursday for signing papers. Got a chance to say farewell to Rowena the mail carrier. Lunch at Beach Hut Deli. Dinner disaster: Spilled Marie fetuccini out of the microwave and some dribbled inside the oven door, untouchable without disassembly. Crap. Ate a couple of Grace’s frozen burritos for dinner.
–Took a couple of trips over to DVL. Still seems like there’s a never-ending supply of things that need to be moved.
–Papa Murphy’s pizza for dinner, though not the one I (thought I) ordered.
–Took a load over to DVL.
–Bought, de-restrictored, and installed square “rain” shower head. Works nice. Noted that shower had been dripping since yesterday, as I failed to whang hard enough on the handles when turning them off. First turn of Mustang key (so to speak) went “click;” second turn started it up. Put it on the battery tender on return from Home Depot.
–Took a light load over to 1956 DVL. Turned on heat for a later shower.
–Marie for dinner.
–Talked to mark about the Tunnel Hill house like ours that came up yesterday at $599,000. He said he’s never seen buyers back out after all contingencies were closed, but he’s also never seen this big a price difference between two highly similar houses. He also said if we were the buyers and this came up, he would feel bound to inform us of it. There are barriers if our buyers want to switch (loan, second floor leak on the twin house, no solar pool heat, someone potentially snapping it up quick, etc. BUT there’s nothing stopping them from trying to negotiate us down to $650,000 (say), which would be very annoying.
–Boboli for dinner.
–Played with knives.
–Took a load to Goodwill. They didn’t take the low folding chairs (no furniture) or Grace’s lifejacket. They did take a handful of LPs.
–New Shirogorov/Sinkevich came in. Too small.
–Shirogorov/Martin Overkill in titanium came in. Sweet!
–Marie for dinner. Not bad.
–Took espresso machines and stereo stuff over to 1956 DVL. Tried again to fix the faucet. Failed.
–Talked to Geronimo movers; will move on the 9th.
–Took a load over to 1956 DVL. Took a second trip over to try and fix leaking faucet in my bathroom. Spent a LONG time without success. Totally chewed up one stem getting it out because the nut is a non-standard size; real plumbers use pliers or adjustable wrenches, whereas I tried to use a sized wrench, which rounded the nut and forced me to use channel-locks to remove it. Found exact matching stems at Home Depot, but then had issues with (pick one) the valve seat, the tightening nut, and/or turning the faucet all the way on or off before tightening. Incredibly frustrating. Will likely call Ross Broadley and have him replace all bathroom faucets with current cartridge technology.
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