We’re mostly moved in now. As usual after a move, we can’t find anything… we labeled all the boxes, but we’re not sure where some of the boxes themselves ended up in all the confusion. I insisted on moving all our computer equipment myself, so I knew where all that stuff was, and the office is mostly set up now (we even managed to tuck the printer/fax/copier and our office supplies into the closets, freeing up a large amount of space). GoddessJ and I finished the painting last night; it looks good, we just need to touch it up in some places and we’re done.

I’d already had two of the new Weiser “Smart Key” locks at the previous house. I’d used that feature to set both of them to use the same key, and I’d really liked it. So while we were moving I went and bought three more to replace the front-door, the garage man-sized door, and the garage-to-house door. I was able to set all three to use the same (new) key again, instead of the three different keys that the previous owners had used. And I can change them whenever I decide I need to. Nice.

The new house had had an older wired alarm system in it. It wasn’t a monitored system though, so we wanted to move our existing (monitored and wireless) system to the new place. The technicians came on Tuesday to set that up, and to my surprise, they were able to integrate the existing wired contacts into the new system… it took them nearly eight hours, but we now have a kick-ass security system, much better than I’d expected, and more secure than we’d had at our previous houses because it’s wired.

I love the new garage. It was raining pretty heavily when we came home from grocery shopping one night, but I just pulled the car right into the garage and was able to unload the groceries without getting wet, for the first time ever. 😀 There’s no automatic garage door opener at present, but that’s high on our list of things to do when we’ve got the money. That will make it pretty much perfect.

As you might have noticed, our Internet connection wasn’t fixed yesterday. The technician showed up, spent forty-five minutes looking around (and scaring the cats into hiding), then told me the same thing that the first one said: that it would take two technicians and about five hours to run the new wire required to hook up the cable and Internet. Which is exactly what I’d passed on to the people at the company on Tuesday, but apparently they didn’t listen. This time the technician set up the follow-up appointment himself, while talking to me, so I know it was done properly. The earliest I could get was Friday morning, so with any luck we’ll have an Internet connection by tomorrow evening.

Except for the Internet connection SNAFU, we’re absolutely loving the new place. 😀