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The movers arrived on time yesterday.  My first reaction on seeing the 26-foot truck was “No way.  It’ll never fit!”, but three hours later, the three movers had managed to pack everything – well, almost everything – into the truck, brimful.  (The dumbbells went separately, in one of their pickup trucks, though I’m not sure whether [...]

It’s 5:30am, and the movers are coming in three hours.  Fortunately, after a Herculean and sometimes Sisyphean-feeling effort, we’re ready for them. Well, almost ready.  Ready enough.  There is still a bit of stuff festooning the tops of furniture, but mostly either packing related stuff (markers, tape, packing material) or junk that can be thrown [...]

I have spent the last few days working on packing the studio.  Sorting three years of mess into organized packets is considerably more time-consuming than I expected, and I’m pretty worried about packing the rest of the house – we have exactly one week left before the movers arrive and the rest of the house [...]

And so is the Stuff. I have proof positive: I packed eight boxes of books yesterday.  That mostly cleared out the bookshelves. There are six more boxes of books this evening!  And all I did was clean up the final few books off the bookshelf and pick some volumes up off the floor, table, etc.  (OK, [...]