Moving

Scrubbed the apartment clean after meeting with photographer.

Meet with a videographer.

Moved my last stuff out of the apartment (jug of water and mug) - and turn in the keys.

Slept with the light on, even though Mr Shinozaki guarded the door.

Drive By Texting (While It Is Still Legal)

Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:00 PM: Start, filled up @ arco, pasadena, rosemead+foothill 2.75

Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:22 PM: Me at bakersfield - jct 5 + 99
Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:42 PM: Jct 5 + 119
Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:52 PM: Gps sez eta in 3:45
Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:13 PM: Jct 5 + 46
Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:41 PM: Jct 5 + 41
Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:50 PM: Wth is avenal, ca?
Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:04 PM: Harris ranch!
Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:31 PM: Bored. 40 mi to 152

[Extremely bored ... decided to hit the warp drive]

Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:03 AM: Junct 5 + 152
Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:43 AM: Jct 152 + 101
Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:11 AM: Jct 101 + 880
Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:18 AM: Here at ida's

[Finally arrived... so tired]

Retreat

Spend the night at Simi Valley again. I don't want to do it, but I need to transport my clothing back to Arcadia.

Moving My Junks Back, Part Deux

It was cold, drizzling and grey. What a great day to move in the furniture from the Relo Cube into the house. Also, most of my stuff is back and crammed in Arcadia. I need to start sorting out the real junks from goods.

Unpack The Container

Surprisingly, the delivery truck shows up only 30 minutes late. The amazing thing is the fork lift that they use to move the container. It is small, yet it packs a lot of pneumatic power.

The orange straps work as expected, they keep everything from falling on me when the container is re-opened. Everything is intact, although some items have bruises.

New Cube in Santa Ana (2)

The first agenda of the day: complete the LR scripts for eDoc, and they were completed before EOD. The highlight of the day: Craig called requesting assistance with LR scripts on Dashboard project. It is going to be interesting...

On the right, the cube after it was cleaned up.

New Cube in Santa Ana and File Server Going Kaputz

This is the condition of the cube in Santa Ana when I walked in Monday morning. Yes, it is open and spartan, but I got a window seat.

The boxes hold the computers from Jacksonville. I will post the cleaned-up version later.

Also the highlight of today: file server in Santa Ana blew up. A new instance of the machine was brought up quickly so the work could proceed by swapping the data drive to another machine.

I suspected that the machine might have faulty drive (well, it has failed once and it was a Dell desktop after all) and hopefully I fixed the whole machine by swapping the old drive with one from a cannibalized machine. The machine was swapped and joined to the corporate domain at the end of day.

After the mess died down, the workspace had the next attention.

Transportation

Back to the land of traffic congestion last Friday night, and I need a new transportation. Enter: Toyota Highlander 2008.

I am officially an active participant to the global warming, driving mid-size SUV 80 miles daily.

Last Day in Jacksonville

It was smooth sailing on Tuesday: the junk was laid out, squeezed into the Relocube, excess garbage was picked up, and in the afternoon Craig showed up to pick up the grill, along with Wayne picking up the keys and the ABF Transportation person taking the Relocube away, all at the same time. :D

Wednesday, the last day in Jacksonville, we left at 11:30AM, flying to New Orleans, LA.

My Junks in 6 x 7 x 8

Hellish Monday

Everything went well on Saturday since nothing much is being done, just boxing up my stuff and papers.

Joe swang by on Sunday and helped me squeezed the sofa into the Relocube. After that, everything went crazy. I packed a third of my stuff that night, not much since I was tired from moving the couch and mattresses.

Monday was hell, although it started well, I ran errands: buying cleaning stuff and ratchets to tie down the stuff, keeping them from falling on us when we open it in Pacoima, CA. Took Michael to have lunch with people from downtown, Ray and Jen from SCM also showed up. Went home packed some more, I thought that I still have tons of space, not knowing that I was dead wrong. Later that afternoon I asked Michael for help with storing the vehicle for time being. #*?!@. After renting the car, we went to have diner, I was packing again until 3:30AM in the next day.

Last Working Day in Jacksonville

Good bye cube, smell you later.