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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

[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.