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October 18, 2008
Watershed Day
Today took some careful planning.
The challenge?
1. Consolidate two Manhattan storage rooms into one Stamford, CT storage room.
Since our new storage will be 35 miles away (and we don't have a car):
2. Negotiate with the Superintendent of our condo for space to store our bikes.
3. Move redundant furniture and art in our apartment into storage.
4. Relocate Christmas stuff to our apartment.
And finally, Prana:
5. Remove, fold, roll and store Prana's sails.
6. Store everything that cannot freeze (cleaners, batteries, etc.).
7. Vacuum seal storage bags of clothes, linens, etc.
So here is how it went down:
STEP 1: 6:30am Make breakfast (and lunch to take on the road)
STEP 2: Pick up U-Haul truck rental at 23rd Street & 11th Avenue
STEP 3: Drive 50 feet to Manhattan Mini Storage
STEP 4: 3rd Floor storage room, remove and load all items into the truck
STEP 5: Basement storage room, remove and load all items into the truck
STEP 6: Finalize lease cancellation and details for refund of the security deposits - $1,000! Score!
STEP 7: Drive to our apartment at 20th Street and 6th Avenue
STEP 8: Illegally park in front of fire hydrant, fetch redundant furniture & art from apartment
STEP 9: Forgot the vacuum. Got the vacuum.
STEP 10: Drive to Stamford.
STEP 11: Check in at Uncle Bob's Self-Storage.
STEP 12: Unload truck into new storage room.
STEP 13: Drive to marina.
STEP 14: Lunch.
STEP 15: Vacuum pack clothes and linens.
STEP 16: Load sails, cleaners, freezables in the truck.
STEP 17: Empty fridge. Turn off fridge.
STEP 18: Dispose of trash (shit, I forgot to do this last weekend, and it smells like a baby diaper).
STEP 19: Lock up Prana. (See you, sweetheart, in two weeks).
STEP 20: Drive to Uncle Bob's Self-Storage.
STEP 21: Unload sails, cleaners, freezables into new storage room.
STEP 22: Drive to New York.
STEP 23: Double park in front of condo, unload vacuum, napsack full of boat fridge stuff, laptop.
STEP 24: Fill truck gas tank.
STEP 25: Drive to U-Haul to return truck.
STEP 26: Fill gas tank again (is THAT what they call FULL SERVICE in New York?!)
STEP 27: Drive to U-Haul to return truck.
STEP 28: Do 3 u-turns to get the truck back to the not-so-obvious "RETURN HERE".
STEP 29: Pay for the truck. A lot.
STEP 30: Walk to the apartment.
STEP 31: Wander past Chelsea Meat Market and decide to spontaneously buy a roast for dinner.
STEP 32: Arrive home. Unpack backpack of boat fridge items. Put vacuum away.
STEP 33: Pour red wine.
STEP 34: Pour more red wine.
Posted by dave at October 18, 2008 06:46 PM