We are go!
June 21st, 2007 | Filed under Personal.
Today has been a very productive day. It began with me phoning the estate agent and being told everything was OK and that I could move in on Saturday. I can go tomorrow to get the keys and pay the first month’s rent (in cash!). Then I phoned British Gas and told them I was moving, they just told me to phone back on the day and they’d sort it all out. Must remember to take a meter reading first.
After that I phoned BT and got all that sorted out. This line will be turned off on Wednesday, and then some time between then and the 4th of July the new line will be turned on. They’ll try and do it from the exchange and SMS me if it works, otherwise an engineer will have to come on the 4th to do something.
Next on my list was my ISP who I want to change away from. I sent them a message using their website, and while stuffing things into boxes received a phone call. This was a really strange call, the bloke was from my ISP and essentially he was trying to convince me to stay by doing me a “favour”. This favour consists of not cancelling my account, but dropping it to a £9.99 one instead for two months. 
Why? Well, when I moved here last year they paid my house moving fee but cleverly didn’t explain that I then had to stay with them for a year before that fee is wiped off my bill. The man on the phone said that instead of paying £47 now to settle the moving fee, he could keep me as a customer until the fee expires and then shut my account - or decide to sign up again, he was quite hopeful I would do this.
So instead of paying £47 to leave, I’m paying two lots of £9.99. That’s assuming I want to leave them still, you know I might decide that since they were so nice to me I might come back.
Hmmmm…
The rest of today has been spent stuffing things into boxes, stacking the boxes and then restacking them when it looked like they’d fall over. It’s a bit like Tetris, only the boxes don’t go away when I make lines. There is lots of glass things and bits of computer that must not get damaged. The picture frames are proving to be hard to pack - being both fragile and large.
Oh, and my trolley appeared today. It looks like it should do the job OK. God knows it’s going to get enough of a test on Sunday when I buy a fridge and freezer. And a bed. And retrieve a chair. Did I mention I have hired a van too? This is going to be a fun, but expensive weekend. I’m off to bed now, there’s not a lot else to do since it’s in boxes 
Had a bit of a worry when I thought all my mugs had been packed, but then I found one so I can still make tea.
Tomorrow I have to pay for the house, collect a van and then park it outside somewhere and hope some of our less intelligent locals don’t think it contains stuff worth stealing.
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