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This was the view from my desk yesterday:

It POURED. I found out later that it was the rainiest day on record or something, so that made me feel a bit better.
I made it out to Kinokuniya with my mother, so I will be reporting on a couple of book acquisitions soon. I am still completely unorganized and not unpacked, and I haven’t knit a thing in WEEKS. Oy!

Well, the short-sleeve shirts are resting comfortably in a drawer, and the long sleeves and fur (i.e., polarfleece) pants are getting some usage. The move went pretty smoothly, and the glitches were few. The first glitch? We reserved a 24′ truck, but UHaul supposedly couldn’t find one, so we were stuck with a 17′ truck with a trailer!
I hired some “labor service” guys to help load the truck:

They were an immense help, but they dropped my Steelcase desk and broke off one of the legs. They also busted a knob on the washing machine!
Oh, empty house!

Here’s Peter’s dad finishing off the Manhattan Glacier pear caramel ice cream after a long day’s work:

Peter’s parents in front of our house. Bye, California!
I didn’t take any photos along the way, and I haven’t taken any photos of the new house, really. There’s much work to be done on it. It was built in 1920, and I think the previous owner lived here a LONG LONG time. More later!

I only have three minutes to write, since the season premiere of Lost is being re-aired, and I want to see the first few minutes of it. I’ll have to write up a proper post of the move, but is that interesting to anybody? For now I leave you with a photo of little Deedle in our empty house in California:

I made a few discoveries today. First, I went to the new Jamba Juice and tried the Matcha Green Tea Blast.

I had heard mixed reviews of it, but I loved it! I think it is even tastier and possesses a stronger matcha flavor than the Starbucks matcha frappuccino.
Thus fortified, I headed to an evil giant box store to get some necessary supplies, necessary supplies such as this:
I also saw these, but I did not purchase them. I am curious about them, though. Has anyone out there tried them? That Willy Wonka! What will he think of next?
I have also, of course, been packing. I can’t even tell you how much time I spent trying to figure out the meaning of these instructions on the large mirror box I got from UHaul: Granted, I am a bit on the spatially challenged side, but how hard can it be to assemble a simple box? I ended up calling close to a dozen (no exaggeration) UHaul stores for assembly advice, and nobody could help me except for the last guy, who explained how to put the box together. But, um, I could not visualize his instructions, so I just cut the tabs and taped it up like a regular box.
The computer gets packed up tomorrow. I’m not sure if I will have the opportunity or the fodder to blog, so if I don’t, I will report to you next from the great Pacific Northwest!

I got a message from my friend Lulu that her son was selling copies of his “fiction” for a buck to raise money to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. How could I resist?

I really don’t know anything about dinosaurs, so I feel very fortunate to have received this. And hey, it’s for a good cause!
Packing continues. Of course, I also had to distract myself further by deciding to try downloading an audiobook for the very first time. I tried iTunes, but they have hidden their shopping carts, and I could not make a purchase to save my life. So then I went to audible.com and signed up for the trial offer. When trying to download, though, all I get are errors! Can anyone help? I went to the software page, and it said that you can download DownloadManager to import directly into iTunes and thus avoid installing Manager, so that’s what I did. When I try to download the book, though, it tells me I need Manager. Aiyaaa! I think I will just go eat some ice cream (Pear Caramel, to be exact).

Somebody please put me out of my misery.

We had a bunch of crap in the attic, as you can see. I got the front bedroom and the hall closet packed today. I still have to finish the kitchen, pack the master bedroom, the bathroom, and my office. I can see the twinkle at the end of the tunnel, and that is what is keeping me going. It’s probably a good thing I am doing this by myself, though, because I am getting a bit whiny. My back hurts from bending. See? Whiny. At least I have plenty of ice cream for fuel (the pink cookies are gone, but hey, I did give a few to a neighbor). A week from now I will be in our new house!