So, you read the pre-recorded ramblings. Here's what really happened. We just got back online a few days ago. If we haven't e-mailed you back yet, well, we're working on it. We've got a week or two of backlog right now.Day 0
We spent most of Friday running around like crazy mice. Isabel was finally done with her computer so I could move it over - she had been borrowing a computer from my dad for the past two years. So I moved her hard drive into my computer and moved a spare hard drive (from a third computer) to my dad's. It took a bit of doing. Spent most of my day trying to install Windows XP on it. We're still getting 0x7B errors when we try to boot from Isabel's copy of Windows, but that has to wait until we have time to fix it from LA.
But we were able to pack the computer finally. We had ten bags total, two of which could arguably be classed as "carry-on" and two more of which could even more arguably be considered our "bonus personal bag each". And six bags total of "I can't believe we still have this much stuff". We've mailed at least three dozen large boxes over and thrown out a good amount of our possessions. You don't realize how much you really have until you have to pay a dollar a pound to keep it.
We went out to one final farewell dinner with my parents and Chuck and Dorothy (my aunt and uncle). This was the second or third farewell dinner we'd had. We took separate vehicles because they couldn't fit us and our luggage in the same car. We get to the airport and the skycap tells us "You know, America West only allows two pieces of checked luggage per person". And he tells us they charge between $50 and $80 for each piece over. So my dad gives me money to take care of this. The skycap lets us through if we don't tell anybody that it was him who did it. I quietly resolve to be nicer to the people around me from now on. So thank you, anonymous helpful skycap.
