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Finally, everything is moved over, and I’m back online. I’m officially settled, physically. Mentally, I don’t think I’m quite there yet. The professionally just-cleaned apartment, unpacked stuff everywhere, and cable television… I feel like I’m staying at a hotel, and nothing seems permanent. It took me a while to warm up to the Campbell apartment, so I imagine it will take me even longer to get used to San Mateo. We’ll see how it goes.

We had our big move Sunday. We hired professional movers; no way we could have done the move on our own. One flight of stairs at the old apartment, and two or three flights at the new one… I’m pretty sure someone would have hurt themselves. Major kudos to the movers getting our bed into the loft area past a spiral staircase. We suffered only two casualties: a cheap, small IKEA lamp that was dropped by a mover, and one of the Corelle mugs I use for tea that Kelvin dropped while unwrapping it from packing.

Because of our procrastination, we didn’t have everything packed by the time the movers came. We had to do a walk-through with manager of the old apartment Monday, so Sunday night and all-day Monday was spent getting all the remnants of our old home out to the new home. We’ve been unpacking ever since, but there’s still junk everywhere. AT&T came an installed Uverse today (AT&T sent an email saying he was coming yesterday, but it was shown in the system as today. AT&T sucks.), and we set up the computer desk and computers today.

I probably could have had my computer up and running earlier, but Kelvin set up the TV yesterday. We get “basic” cable included in our rent. That means we get local channels and a handful of cable channels. Except we don’t. Our TV found all the cable channels, excluding premium stuff like HBO. I had to search through hundreds of channels of nothing my TV also picked up, but nonetheless, I found a lot more than I expected. I was happy to get anything outside of CBS, but now I’m really happy. Brain… rotting…

New thing I learned today: Who Traci Lords is.

I’ve been hooked on the Biography Channel all day. I don’t know if the show only profiles interesting people or makes everything they profile seem interesting.