Forever Home – July 05th

It’s getting more real by the day.

We’re hitting the physical move in two waves. All of the “little stuff” that can be boxed up now (dishes we don’t use every day, books, DVDs, all of my financial records and paperwork, clothes that don’t get worn regularly, and so on) is being boxed up and then needs to be moved out of the house and out of the way. The PODS will let us do that on our own.

And if I skip the gym for the next couple of weeks, that’s just fine. I’m getting one hell of a workout, seven days a week.

When we close escrow, we’ll have the PODS transferred to the driveway at the new house, and we’ll bring in a professional moving crew to grab all of the “big stuff” and move it in one day. Bedroom furniture, couches, dining room furniture, book shelves, and so on.

Under the category of, “No battle plan ever survived first contact with the enemy,” and, “It’s a game of inches,”

Between my storage spaces, backyard, and garage, I have dozens of these industrial shelving units on wheels, almost all loaded up with boxes of books, videos, baseball cards, camera gear, clothes, Christmas lights, tools… They’re fast & easy to just roll into a truck or PODS unit, and then easy and fast to unload at the other end.

Except…

While they fit in the PODS unit once they’re inside, the edge of the rollup door hangs down about 3 inches and the top of the unit won’t pass without being tilted just a bit. Which means they all have to be rolled to the unit, unloaded, tipped and tilted inside, and then re-loaded. That’s a ten-minute high-intensity workout for every single one that I wasn’t expecting. I’ll live, it will work out in the end, but it’s a little bit annoying.

On the other hand, when playing the world’s biggsest freakin’ game of four-dimensional Tetris, if that’s the worst problem I run into, I’ll be fine.