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quick sf update
Aug. 30th, 2005 10:22 pmJust an update.
We made it to San Fran okay. Lots of drama and adventure, which I will attempt to sum up with a series of statements.
1) Your little car may haul a 900 pound trailer with 1600 pounds of books and kitchen supplies up the appalachians, the rockies, the uticas, and the sierra nevadas with a little bit of trouble, but the downhill 6000 foot rollercoaster drop from Reno into Sacramento is the thing that just might kill you.
2) Trying to tackle this at night while there is less traffic, fails to take into account that most construction occurs at night.
3) Although you've paid the rent in advance, signed the lease, and let them know when you'll arrive two weeks in advance, it won't prevent your landlord from making you wait 6 hours with yowling beast and wife, for him to show up with the keys.
4) 9 PM on that same day is a horrible time to try and work out an elementary physics problem: (How does one unstick a u-haul trailer wedged hopelessly under a garage door? The answer, don't unload it, that will stick it further as the trailer's suspension shoves it upward, deflate the tires.)
5) After hiring cleaning services, don't leave them sitting in the hallway for two hours with yowling beast and wife because you locked everyone out of the apartment chasing after said beast.
6) If you call a locksmith, and he acts like a frikken spaz while on the phone, don't be suprised when he shows up and decides that the correct method of jimmying your lock is to insert his lockpicks and act like a frikkin spaz, decide he can't do it and charge you $65. (Later you'll discover that the lock can be opened with a credit card.)
7) The Ikea motto should be "it will get more stable after you add the next bit."
8) If you think assembling Ikea furniture is frustrating, try it without the instructions.
9) Both auto registration and driver's license conversion is possible at the San Fran DMV in half a day ... Just barely. Doing this without a nervous breakdown is pretty much impossible.
10) Returning a footstool to Ikea in order to swap it for one of a different color actually takes longer and is more traumatic than transferring your driver's license at the DMV.
Pics and stuff a little later, as we get settled.
We made it to San Fran okay. Lots of drama and adventure, which I will attempt to sum up with a series of statements.
1) Your little car may haul a 900 pound trailer with 1600 pounds of books and kitchen supplies up the appalachians, the rockies, the uticas, and the sierra nevadas with a little bit of trouble, but the downhill 6000 foot rollercoaster drop from Reno into Sacramento is the thing that just might kill you.
2) Trying to tackle this at night while there is less traffic, fails to take into account that most construction occurs at night.
3) Although you've paid the rent in advance, signed the lease, and let them know when you'll arrive two weeks in advance, it won't prevent your landlord from making you wait 6 hours with yowling beast and wife, for him to show up with the keys.
4) 9 PM on that same day is a horrible time to try and work out an elementary physics problem: (How does one unstick a u-haul trailer wedged hopelessly under a garage door? The answer, don't unload it, that will stick it further as the trailer's suspension shoves it upward, deflate the tires.)
5) After hiring cleaning services, don't leave them sitting in the hallway for two hours with yowling beast and wife because you locked everyone out of the apartment chasing after said beast.
6) If you call a locksmith, and he acts like a frikken spaz while on the phone, don't be suprised when he shows up and decides that the correct method of jimmying your lock is to insert his lockpicks and act like a frikkin spaz, decide he can't do it and charge you $65. (Later you'll discover that the lock can be opened with a credit card.)
7) The Ikea motto should be "it will get more stable after you add the next bit."
8) If you think assembling Ikea furniture is frustrating, try it without the instructions.
9) Both auto registration and driver's license conversion is possible at the San Fran DMV in half a day ... Just barely. Doing this without a nervous breakdown is pretty much impossible.
10) Returning a footstool to Ikea in order to swap it for one of a different color actually takes longer and is more traumatic than transferring your driver's license at the DMV.
Pics and stuff a little later, as we get settled.
