Well, I'm moved into the Crescent Center. I think my research begins next Tuesday, so in the mean time I get to hang out and get drunk.
The drive was long. We left Friday but we got a late start. We pulled in Sunday at about midnight. All told, it was about 1600 miles. I thought we could do it in a 4 hour/8 hour/4 hour break-up of shifts, but I was basing this off of road trips I've done in cars. My 24' Budget truck couldn't reliably top 65mph and we had to stop for a bathroom break every other hour. So...we ended up doing a 4 hour/15 hour/15 hour break-up for our driving shifts. It sucked, and late at night on the final night I couldn't tell if we were driving uphill, downhill, or flat. Weird.
Anyway, the move went pretty smooth. At about 10:30AM on Monday morning, a bum stole my toolbox with about $600 worth of tools from the sidewalk. I didn't go far, and I thought I could keep my eyes on it, but I came back and found it missing. Then about 20 minutes later my girlfriend noticed a guy struggling to carry a big red box down the street, so I ran after him. By the time I found him he had it in a shopping cart and was running down the alley. I
politely asked him for my tools back and needless to say I now have them all back.
We have our place all set up, and the apartment is pretty nice. We have a ton of space here, but I couldn't get my couch in the place. We tried forcing it in until we heard a loud crack, and then I noticed my couch was a bit saggy. So, we threw it in a dumpster and had fun for an hour sawing and hammering it into a neat little package.
Good times overall. The place is nice, if not a little loud with the traffic directly outside. But a small drawback for having a microbrewery, coffee shop, liquor store, restaurant, store, and medical school all within walking distance of my place.
