We rented a U-Haul Saturday afternoon to move some of the bigger furniture up to the new house, since the tile guy had come through and repaired all the tiles and grout that cracked because of settling.
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I hate driving trucks this big. This one had more than 158,000 miles on it--and it felt it. Unfortunately, I didn't notice until I was returning it to the U-Haul place that the electric overdrive had been on the entire time, explaining its gutlessness, even with the light load of bookshelves, a bed, and several boxes of books.
At least there's a place to sleep if I stay up there observing and I decide it is too late to drive back!
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Bookshelves and books are now invading every room!
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There are still a few issues. The pressurization pump in the garage is dripping water, so the well pump people need to come back and figure out why.
We are still trying to figure out a solution to the pretty serious crack in the back driveway. It is a bit expensive to tear up this much concrete, and then repour it. The builder is thinking that putting in another drain at that part of the driveway might be a way to both disguise it, and make sure that water doesn't pool there.
No mailbox yet--so the first two bills from the phone company ended up going...who knows? They didn't bounce back to the phone company.
Still waiting on consistently warm enough weather for the builder to finish the exterior trim paint, and grade the rest of the platform and road.
The good news is that two different wireless internet providers are now offering me service, the cheaper of which will charge me $200 installation and $70 per month for 800 Kbps upstream and downstream. Citizens Communications, who could not give me DSL when I asked for phone service several months ago, now says that they will be installing more remote terminals in my area "soon" and will be able to offer DSL. If they can do so before I commit to installing a wireless antenna, that would be very nice, but phone companies move glacially.
Last house project entry.
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