Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
16:49 - Cajas de cartón
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We're down to the wire. The end of the month is fast approaching, and we have to move out of our current rental place and into the new one by Saturday night, so we can clean up the old house on Sunday and be out by Monday. Since painting and carpeting concluded last weekend, we've been taking truckloads of stuff over each night-- couches, tables, TV and stereo gear, kitchen supplies. These sessions have taken us well into the wee hours each night. We've made a big dent, but the worst is yet to come.
This is not helped by the fact that the weather has chosen precisely this four-day period to be massively, stiflingly hot.
Capri doesn't like this one bit. He's not built for hot weather-- even in the balmy spring heat of May, his collie coat has made him uncomfortable in our non-air-conditioned house unless he's parked in front of a fan. The new house is air-conditioned, so he's taking rapidly to it and acting extremely unhappy whenever we have to pull him off the couch and back into the truck for another run. And today it's got to be near 100 degrees-- he's apparently not handling it at all well. We're doing an emergency alteration of our plans-- first we install the beds and sleeping arrangements, then we install the dog, then we install dog-sitters, then we install the rest of our worldly possessions. Unimportant crap like Internet and cable service can wait.
Most of my goods are packed up into large cardboard boxes right now, sitting in my new master suite, waiting to be unpacked as soon as there are shelves and cabinets and things to put them in. I can wait. Important things first. That means that immediately following my day job in priority comes racing over there, getting the truck, driving back to the hot house, taping together another few boxes, loading up some two-man-job pieces of furniture, driving back, and repeating until about 2:00 AM from now through Sunday. Blogging will likely be light.
In the meantime, does anyone have a giant heat-sink I can borrow? It has to fit one medium-sized urban valley.
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