MOVING DAY: Ever notice that changes come in waves?

[Maetryx]

Maetryx here,

Tomorrow I lose my high speed internet. I'm moving off campus to a new home so I can be closer to ShotgunSteve (it just worked out that way, actually). Because I went to college myself, and then married someone 4 years younger than me, I lived at the UAF campus for a total of 9 years. *shudder* (5 years on, 2 years away, 4 years on again).

On Wednesday I had a job interview. I'm looking to make a move away from the corporate world and into a local government position (but still pretty much within my field of engineering). So that's a difference too. My wife will have to get a job sometime in the next couple of months too, before her student loans come due. So things are just changing like crazy.

Anyway, I'm surrounded by boxes and I'm getting tired. Tomorrow I sign the closing documents and pick up the U-Haul. I'll kiss UAF goodbye. Nice to get into a real house again....

 

[Jfur]

Yes, it does seem to happen that way. Happy that those changes are all positive

 

[Bimmer318i]

Agreed...always in waves....good luck with everything ..

 

[Maetryx]

True, true. All these changes are good, or at least aren't bad. I feel a little melancholy because this will be such a clean break with my younger self. I'm 31, so I've left my twenties. Now I'm leaving my longstanding affiliation with the University. And in all likelihood I'll be taking a supervisory position with the public works department.

Bad? Absolutely not. Putting things behind and moving on and all that entails? Yeah...

 

[MomAndSkoorbaby]

Absolustely! We are in a similar situation here ourselves.

 

[StageLeft]

Hehe have fun Last year I went from sittong on my ass for 6 months to getting a job out of the blue in the US (lived in eastern canada). In a period of about 9 days I went from knowing nothing about the job to having moved to the US for first time and starting work. I "enjoyed" being exceedingly tight for money, having to get bank account, all that crap, social security, etc. and then seeing mrs. skoorb fly back home. Fun times!

And then today I gave notice to boss on monday that if a project isn't here today we're off. So honestly we are about 50/50 whether we're moving to a close city for this project or back to Canada. It will happen early next week and we still don't even know which of those options it will be.

 

[Maetryx]

Oh wow. Yeah I know how "the last second" is the one with all the curcial data. Yesterady was like playing a $90,000 game of chicken: my (mortgage lender's) money and the seller's house. We were totally conflicted over who was going to fix the lead-water problem if there was one and the sample was getting analyzed at the lab YESTERDAY. A previous sample (not taken by me) had come back too high.

The g*d d*mned sellers signed on the original purchase agreement that they would abate any such problems. But they were tired of fixing things I guess, even though that's not my problem. They signed it for pete's sake. Then the analysis was done and me and my real estate agent stood by the fax machine holding our breath. I had told my agent I was prepared to walk from this house, even though the closing was tomorrow (a couple of hour from now), if the seller wouldn't fix the lead-water issue.

The sample came back at 5ppb (and the EPA regulated max contaminated level is 15ppb). Phew! So there was no game of chicken to play. But I reserve the right to hate the hell out of the sellers for being such butts.

NEWS UPDATE. Agent just called. They miscalculated my closing costs by $1334.48 :|. Not in my favor, of course. So now I have to go to the bank and get a cashier's check. Grrrrrrrr. I *knew* that the amount he told me yesterday was ridiculously low.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Well, we have the truck loaded about half-way. Kind of at an impasse right now, Maetryx had to go check something at the house and has some needed packing materials in the back of his car. I finished juggling everything in the back so we can hopefully get it all in one truckload.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

He's a maniac, maniac on the floor,
And he's moving like he's never moved before!

Carting boxes and furniture through that door,
He's a maniac, maniac on the floor!

Phase 1 accomplished, Phase 2 begins tomorrow.

Edit: Make that later today, it is already after 1:00 A.M.