Off By One

And we’re in.

It’s a pretty flash place.

So, thanks to a great many friends — of whom only two have a web presence, and therefore get a web shoutouts — the move went off as close as can be to the ideal “without a hitch” experience.

I would like to formally thank:

Simon Brady Mel Vicki Dad Beau Jerry The D&D Conglomerate Ryan

To the rest of you, thanks for the many offers, some of which had to be turned down due to logistics. Nonetheless, you are welcome in our home any time

We hope to have things squared away by the time I get back from Brazil yet again, and after that we’ll talk housewarming.

It’s quite a sight, the spew of boxes collected into three large stacks and two small ones. An entire life… scratch that, two entire lives piled up and ready to uproot.

Char and I are entering into the second most significant collective choice we’ll ever make; it comes a reasonably distant second to having a child, but it’s still a link between us that we are never likely to sever. It commits us to the financial side of the relationship in a way that — in the all-too-human myopia that comes with large changes — seems to overshadow the real basis for the relationship for a time.

A short time, mind you.

I’m really looking forward to this. It’s been stressful, it’s been draining, but we get our keys today (I just talked to the lawyer, the money’s on it’s way to Bob now) and tonight, we move the first of the bits of our lives into the house.

All I can say is, “poor cats!” They’re terrified.