a real bed!
Apr. 10th, 2022 08:45 amI have made it to Niagara for the Gathering, a week-plus of gaming. Also of sleeping in a real bed. I slept for ten hours last night, more or less, and it was wonderful.
My stuff did in fact arrive Friday morning. A couple of things were minorly damaged. Four bookcases (of eight) were completely destroyed and the backs of the other four came off and were probably damaged. I have begun the process of talking to the claims department (aka "Cheryl") about that. I am not optimistic; the paper I signed explicitly says they're not responsible for damage to particleboard furniture. If I had known that ... well, I probably still would have gone with them, because seriously, I've used four professional moving companies and three of them were careful and didn't break anything (the fourth broke one and a half bookcases out of fifteen, which is a high but acceptable attrition rate). Bah. Soon this will be only a bad memory.
Anyway, everything technically fits into the apartment. I'm in Niagara for a week now, and when I get back I will attempt to make the kitchen work and see what if any repairs can be made to the surviving bookcases. Then it's buying and building replacements and playing Rush Hour with the living room to get the bookcases into place and the contents on the shelves.
"April to move in, May to settle in" feels doable.
Also, as with last year I have acquired several boxes of frosted brown sugar/cinnamon Pop-tarts, which are inexplicably unavailable in Canada. Most of them are to go home; some are for breakfast while I'm here. I have no toaster in the room, so I eat them raw. Or, for the cultured, Pop-tartare.
My stuff did in fact arrive Friday morning. A couple of things were minorly damaged. Four bookcases (of eight) were completely destroyed and the backs of the other four came off and were probably damaged. I have begun the process of talking to the claims department (aka "Cheryl") about that. I am not optimistic; the paper I signed explicitly says they're not responsible for damage to particleboard furniture. If I had known that ... well, I probably still would have gone with them, because seriously, I've used four professional moving companies and three of them were careful and didn't break anything (the fourth broke one and a half bookcases out of fifteen, which is a high but acceptable attrition rate). Bah. Soon this will be only a bad memory.
Anyway, everything technically fits into the apartment. I'm in Niagara for a week now, and when I get back I will attempt to make the kitchen work and see what if any repairs can be made to the surviving bookcases. Then it's buying and building replacements and playing Rush Hour with the living room to get the bookcases into place and the contents on the shelves.
"April to move in, May to settle in" feels doable.
Also, as with last year I have acquired several boxes of frosted brown sugar/cinnamon Pop-tarts, which are inexplicably unavailable in Canada. Most of them are to go home; some are for breakfast while I'm here. I have no toaster in the room, so I eat them raw. Or, for the cultured, Pop-tartare.