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Showing posts with label moving boxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moving boxes. Show all posts

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Almost ready for prime time

SUMMARY: move in next week! Compare and contrast to 2001

Well… This is three months since I said I would post something about the house project every day. I’m only behind by 90 days. I’m sure I will catch up eventually.

Movers will be here Tuesday and Wednesday! I am trying to be prepared. I have sketched out the furniture layout for all the rooms. I have a couple of people to help.

But the reason I brought you here all today is because of this:

August, 2001

The Last Time I Moved

SUMMARY: Reminding myself why I don't want to do that again

I plan to take photos of everything after the movers have left. I expect there to be too much stuff once again. But at least you can compare and contrast to what I moved into the house in San Jose in 2001. So, yes, despite my goals, I am more or less doing the whole thing again. But rest assured: I don’t ever want to do that again again!




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Sunday, August 01, 2021

The Last Time I Moved

SUMMARY: Reminding myself why I don't want to do that again
Backfill: Photos from 20 years ago.

This is *after* I have already started unpacking and putting things in better places. Then I realized that I'd regret not taking photos. So here's some.


Back porch/deck/whatev

The back porch was a good place to put everything that needed to go into the kitchen (so I could walk around in the kitchen) and anything else I didn't have a good place for. It was summer; it was covered and enclosed.  

Wide view:



Then, camera in hand, look left:


Standing at one end and photo left...








Jake is stunned.
...rotate a bit to the right...




...rotate a bit right more...











...rotate a bit more...

...rotate a bit and aim downward...


...and end rotation.


Living room

Left









Right
My original comment on this photo
from back then:
"The movers have just departed after their 2nd day of unloading trucks. I wander around the house, in dull shock, thinking "Whose is all this stuff anyway?"
Remington's thought balloon: "If only I could find a clear spot of carpeting to lie down on..."



Dining Room


Picture, if you will: Dining/Living area is L-shaped, so living room would be base of the L and dining would be the upright.

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Looking along the back wall of the living room


Rotate slightly right





[[[I f***ing hate blogger and its supposed photo inclusion capability. I don't know how people do this if they don't know f**** HTML. I mean, *I* know it and I can't make things work correctly!
I have got to find a way to transfer it all somewhere else. ]]]
Step into the living room and look back into the dining room.
Many of the boxes (maybe all) are books.


Office

Office corner next to iron railing of breakfast nook/kitchen.
You can see that I've already done tons of unpacking at this point. 
So you don't get the full impact. Bummer.



Opposite corner of the office. 
All the electronics are already unpacked and mostly set up so I can function.

I had so much material in the desk drawers that it was imperative that I photograph them *before* unloading them so that I could easily fit them back in.  Is this a lot????
A few years ago, I went through and pulled out more than half, maybe 2/3 of everything and gave it away. 

Shelves on desk, left to right:



All those CD and other removable media storage things became obsolete in a few years
and are now almost all gone.




Kitchen/Breakfast Nook


Actual kitchen is to the right.  
Office is half a level down, behind the black iron railing--
you can see the tops of piles and the ceiling fan.


Yard


Many things have already been removed from this area;
movers just put almost everything for the yard here.
They also moved a few larger items out farther into the yard.


Master bedroom


Apparently I took no photos of the closet and all of its boxes and clothing.



Bedroom #1

Stuff to go into the attic room up the pull-down ladder. Later. Mostly.




Bedroom #2


Hmm, no photos. Nothing really to go there.

Bedroom #3

Did I seriously not take photos of the guest room with all of its furniture and boxes?!

Garage

I *know* that I took photos of the garage even though it was difficult. It was literally up to the level of the garage door opener, and packed nearly wall to wall, just barely space for me to get by on two sides. Terrifying.  Welllll I'll have to find that later.