Just getting better... (not!)
Jun. 20th, 2006 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI was trying to remember the brand of rental truck we rented when we emptied the Pearland house (U-Haul? Budget? Penske?), to no avail, and it's not exactly easy to put one's hands on receipts around here, so I just started to call around the area to see what was available.
(As a side note: it turns out you can insert coordinates along the lines of "29° 33.57 N 95° 19.90 W" into Google Earth and have the result make sense.)
So it turns out I can get a truck here in town for 7 days for a one-way long-distance trip. The price is... in line for such items. I figure to pick it up tomorrow, which ought to give me some up-front time loading it.
Except that, when I call and tell Galina about the truck, she tells me we really need to stay for Huntür's birthday party Sunday, so maybe I ought to pick up the truck on Friday?
When to pick up the truck aside, I'm thinking: there goes day two of our two-day margin.
And - pardon me for sounding like a broken record - we haven't even started packing yet.
As I've tried to explain: if we leave Monday, everything has to work flawlessly. There can be no unexpected delays. The same is pretty much true if we leave Sunday afternoon, after Huntür's party, because whatever daylight is left on Sunday probably won't make much of a difference (except perhaps, to force us to stay in a motel for an extra night... ).
More to the point, there will likely be no rest after the trip, as I'll pretty much have to start unloading the truck upon arrival in Webster, given my departure date.
The idea of extending the deadline of my translation has been broached with my client. I really need to start working on the move now, before it turns into a true Unitarian fire drill.
Cheers...
(As a side note: it turns out you can insert coordinates along the lines of "29° 33.57 N 95° 19.90 W" into Google Earth and have the result make sense.)
So it turns out I can get a truck here in town for 7 days for a one-way long-distance trip. The price is... in line for such items. I figure to pick it up tomorrow, which ought to give me some up-front time loading it.
Except that, when I call and tell Galina about the truck, she tells me we really need to stay for Huntür's birthday party Sunday, so maybe I ought to pick up the truck on Friday?
When to pick up the truck aside, I'm thinking: there goes day two of our two-day margin.
And - pardon me for sounding like a broken record - we haven't even started packing yet.
As I've tried to explain: if we leave Monday, everything has to work flawlessly. There can be no unexpected delays. The same is pretty much true if we leave Sunday afternoon, after Huntür's party, because whatever daylight is left on Sunday probably won't make much of a difference (except perhaps, to force us to stay in a motel for an extra night... ).
More to the point, there will likely be no rest after the trip, as I'll pretty much have to start unloading the truck upon arrival in Webster, given my departure date.
The idea of extending the deadline of my translation has been broached with my client. I really need to start working on the move now, before it turns into a true Unitarian fire drill.
Cheers...
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Date: 2006-06-20 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-20 11:24 pm (UTC)A statement the veracity of which I can neither confirm nor deny, although in the course of my married life, this will be our 15th move.
(Hmmm. Five fires?)
Cheers...