M-Day is here

[unixronin]

About four and a half to five hours from now, a 24' moving truck should roll up at our front door.  I will be spending the intervening time trying to box up as much of the remaining odds and ends as I can, and breaking down furniture that breaks down (which at this point basically means my desk, cymrullewes' desk, our bed, and taking the legs off the dining room table).  I will also, before too very much longer, be shutting down the last remaining computers.¹

We have phone service at the new house, we just don't have working phones there yet.  Not one of the phone jacks actually has dial tone on it, though Verizon swears our new phone number is active and connected (and it does in fact get a ringing tone when I dial it).  I anticipate having to fix the internal wiring to the jacks² myself, or have a phone tech come in and make them work.  I'll be calling Verizon myself in a little bit, after they open at 0800, to see if they'll get at least one jack working for free.

(They can give us overlapping phone service here and at the new house.  I completely fail to see why they can't give us overlapping DSL service as well, but they say they have to have two days' downtime to make the switchover.  I interpret this as another manifestation of Telcos Still Don't Really "Get" Data Services.)

[1]  As I write, only babylon5, minbar, nijo and yama are still up.  Of those, yama is the router and firewall, and nijo is the primary nameserver, so I can't really shut them down yet.  And minbar?  Dude, minbar is the NFS server.  I shut that down now, there's no tunes!

[2]  The owners of the house apparently had at least three phone lines coming into the house, and it appears the Verizon tech hooked up the line on the one remaining available pair (of the normal four) not connected to any of the existing jacks.  That, or the inside wiring is just completely fubared.

Comments

Re: Oven!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Is it time for new tiles? I think we could spare it ....

Re: Oven!

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

We could. We left the last set of news with Mom. Want me to stop by Home Depot? Which reminds me that I need to get directions to the nearest grocery store and hardware store.

Re: Oven!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Not today. It'll wait. And I grabbed a gallon of milk when I went to the ATM.

Re: Oven!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Shutting down now.