Not strictly game related, but my wife and I just got done moving to a new house. Now, I say “done” in the loosest of terms, and it should be taken to mean, “technically we live here, but we’re still pretty much living out of boxes”. It’s been an interesting experience, this being only our second house. I guess you just never know how much stuff you’ve managed to cram into your house until you have to pack it all onto a truck, drive it somewhere else, and then try to get it all out into some semblance of order. Luckily I have the next two weeks off, so I’ll be able to get the house into livable shape over that time. Some advice for people planning on moving in the near future:

• If you need a check mailed to you at work, particularly if it’s being mailed from someone who doesn’t know you personally (like an investment firm or your retirement fund), make sure you spell out for them who the check should be made out to. I got a check mailed to my workplace, and it was made out to . . . my workplace.
• If someone else is driving the U-Haul, and they’re planning on leaving the state and coming back tomorrow, make sure they either leave the keys or turn off the headlights. Not doing both equals dead battery.
• Don’t rent a truck from U-Haul. Just don’t.
• If you have to cancel your cable, make sure you know what you’re getting into. You may, for example, have to wait on hold for more than forty minutes, like I did, for what amounted to a five-minute phone call, even including the fact that someone else’s name had been put on my account by accident.

Anyway. Moving is . . . something.

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