Although kitanzi had the day after Thanksgiving off, I had to work, so I did.
Saturday, we went back over to deidrecorwyn‘s for the last phase of moving. I had told her that if she could get a truck reserved for the day, I’d pay for it, so that we could do the move in one shift rather than making a lot of trips in cars. This turned out to be a really good idea, since we pretty well used up the space of a 14’ U-Haul.
This last round was almost entirely boxes, since we’d gotten most of the furniture on the first two days. Left behind was a bit of flotsem and jetsem for deidrecorwyn to deal with on Sunday, but she should be in good shape for getting out of the apartment by her deadline. (I hope.)
We finished getting everything unloaded at the new place; I spent most of that time getting her computer set back up and online. The phone company had screwed up the order to transfer the phone, but managed to correct it within a couple of hours, so I was able to verify that the computer was working and the modem able to get connected before we left.
We left deidrecorwyn, Stuart, and TeriS at about 5:30pm and headed down to Decatur for another Screen Door concert at Eddie’s Attic. I really love those guys, and they were especially tight tonight. They did a number of new songs, including one I *really* liked that Ben wrote for his wife called “We’ve Got A Life Here” that I want to get the lyrics for.
When the concert was over, we dropped by The Book Nook, Atlanta’s largest used bookstore (at least ever since the wonderful Oxford Too went under over 10 years ago *sigh*). It was quite a good haul — I found about 40 Doctor Who paperbacks (I’ve been trying to rebuild my Target novelization collection) that I didn’t have, plus 5 of the first 6 Simon Hawke Timewars books and a handful of Heinleins that we didn’t have. All in all, a good time, if a bit expensive. Oh well, after all the work we did this week, we deserved it!
Sunday was a quiet day spent doing very little, ending on a very fun note: kitanzi had never seen the Mel Brooks classic “The Producers”>, which I recently acquired on DVD. So we watched it and had a grand time with Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom and their sure-to-be-doomed play, “Springtime For Hitler”. 🙂
All in all, a weekend of accomplishments! Go us!
bardling
Yay you on friendly neighbourhood help! That’s a lot of hard work you two did…
The concert sounds fun, and the title of the new song suggests I’d like it too. Pity these guys don’t tour the London/Peterborough area in the UK… *hugs*
snowy
oof
Moving to and fro from college was bad enough, I don’t look forward to the actual moving process whenever I settle down into my own place.
kitanzi
Three cheers for us -- for hard jobs well done, especially when they’re things we never expected to find ourselves doing. *G* In it’s odd way, it was fun!
highstone
Ah yes, ‘The Producers’. This is one of those things I reach for when in need of a sure-fire pick-me-up… In fact my VHS copy is so old and worn, I *just* might have to get it on DVD.