WE LIVE

[unixronin]

And we're back online.

Briefly, we had the truck driven up from Salisbury MD to Hudson for us, got 3/4 of the truck unloaded yesterday, injured my back doing it, got through today on Percocet, got all the really heavy stuff out of the truck today with the aid of two professional movers from LaborReady, spent multiple hours banging on our Verizon residential DSL service and finally got yama to connect to it via PPPoE, and have a network connection again.

The bad news on the connection:  we're on an RSU that Verizon will not allow anyone else access to, so it's Verizon or nothing, it's dynamic-IP PPPoE with the addresses reassigned every 48 hours, and Verizon supports only Windows and Mac and will refuse to even attempt to support or troubleshoot anything else..  The good news: it's only costing us $30/mo ($20/mo for the first three months), we're getting 3.3Mbps down and 864k up, and I was eventually able to make it work with OpenBSD.  (Yay real firewall!)

Tomorrow I get to take the truck back to Budget, get sorted out with them exactly why they had bloody well better not attempt to charge us overtime for the 2 weeks it was sitting at the International dealer being repaired, and take my CBR929RR across the road for its New Hampshire inspection.  Then I need to get the upstairs rooms painted, then we start putting furniture together in the rooms where it actually belongs.

Other bummers:

• We'd hoped to put the two 72" Digital racks down in the basement.  Can't figure out a way to do it.  They won't fit down the stairwell -- too tall standing up, and won't go round the corner at the top laid down.
• We can get the washer we were given while loading the truck hooked up without too much trouble, but the dryer has a four-pin (presumably 208v) plug and the dryer outlet in the basement is three-pin 120v 30A.
• We didn't have room in the truck for (or time to load) several key items like the gorilla racks, the steam vac, the shop vac, the Pioneer stereo rack, or my 12-year-old Pioneer 46" projection TV (which we were going to give to cymrullewes' mom in Princess Anne, MD, because it still works fine right now but we're uncertain how much more abuse from small children it'll survive).

Still, all in all, things are looking up.  And so far, the only damage we've found from this move is one broken bowl, one broken glass, and some minor damage to our oak bookcase.

Oh, yeah ...  I'm caught up on email and webcomics, but will not be attempting to catch up on four weeks of LiveJournal.  Sorry.  If you posted something you think I really ought to see, please include a link in a comment to this post and I'll go look at it.

Comments

For your amusement...

[dafydd.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/dafydd/335933.html

Re: For your amusement...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

[snorfle] :)

Re: For your amusement...

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

that's fuckin hilarious! Hail Eris!

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Glad to hear you're all vaguely in one place and in one piece!

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yup. Now I just need to finish painting, replace the cooling fans in my core switch, and reassemble all the furniture and the network. And reinstall babylon5 with an up-to-date distro. And find work. And....

(Speaking of work, Telecom France R&D is still in the cards.)

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I found the broken bowl in the kitchen trash. That was the last of those wasn't it? Good thing the cats are now to big to use it as a water bowl.

Broken glass? Or are you referring to the mug I broke?

Do we have an idea of how to patch the bookcase back? Other than put a new back on? Could we cut out the cracked bit and patch it?

And, don't reassemble furniture til I get home. I'll take the bits upstairs and then you can put it all together.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you ... Oh, right, you broke a mug.

No, one of the three polarbear glasses is broken. The bookcase back is a minor problem with several possible ways to fix it, the simplest of which is to more or less bend and press it back straight and glue a patch on the back to keep it that way.

No furniture assembly planned for today. Painting first. And it doesn't sound like there's going to be any problem at all with returning the truck -- I just talked to the lady at the Nashua Budget office and she said she can make sure someone can give me and the girls a ride back. (Assuming I can't get someone to watch them for a few.)

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

Don't necessarily assume the four-pin connector on the dryer is 208v. When we moved into our new home, we had the same mismatched connector issue with our dryer, and it was easily remedied with a $15 replacement power cable from Home Depot. (In all fairness, in our case we replaced a 3-prong connector with a 4-prong, and it was no big deal at all because the extra prong was just another ground.)

Otherwise, glad to hear you finally have furniture.

[smileswhf.livejournal.com]

Yay! You're alive. And almost fully past your truck troubles. Woohoo!
My last post was long and rambling, so here is the skinny: I moved to louisiana and bought a house my first weekend here. Escrow closes on the 24th. Pix are here. (http://www.bluesunsa.com/personal/myHouse/myHouse.html)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Now it's just a question of getting Budget customer service to make the rest of it right....

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're finally offloaded and moved in. That safe is a killer.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Actually, we've learned it's not too bad after you lift the door off and take the interior shelves out.

[arasirsul.livejournal.com]

The dryer socket, if it's similar in diameter to what you have is also likely
a 220v socket. I had the opposite problem when I got to the new house; my dryer had a 3-prong plug, the house has a four prong socket.

Fortunately, replacement cords are cheap.

-JDF

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I need to do some more detailed checking.....

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

welcome home and wlecome back.

Your icon

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I see it and it just makes me want to play Norse by Norsewest some more. :-)

Good thing it runs on the laptop. Must find the site with all the passcodes again. :-)

Re: Your icon

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

i got it from a south park character generator site. the link was posted somewhere on my lj about 2 or 3 months ago. whatkinda game is north by northwest?

Re: Your icon

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Norse by Norsewest is a 2D platform game from Oddlabs, the sequel to their The Lost Vikings, involving a trio of oddly assorted Vikings trying to get home.

Re: Your icon

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

lost vikings kicked ass, that's where i got the name olaf!

Re: Your icon

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Yup. Figured that.

Norse by Norsewest is an Interplay-published game that has these three Vikings stranded and you're trying to get them home. Great fun. Google for it.

Re: Your icon

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

okies!