Movin', Movin', Movin'

Been a busy week at Casa Nueva de juvat.  The "leap of faith" I spoke of last week was for naught.  The glitch in the document generating software at the closing company wasn't a glitch.  It was human error involving the address.  Assigning a GPS specific address to the new house is the responsibility of the On-Site Sewage Facility Administrator.  

Beans, that would be the guy that we have to burn incense in front of so he'll approve an application to install a septic system.  Oh, and that approval costs money (but you knew that!).  

Because the septic is a relatively late part of the construction process and a lot of paperwork is completed very early in the process,  we didn't have a "correct" address for the new house in a lot of the forms we filled out in the beginning, so we were advised to and used our current address at the time.  

When we got the new address, we notified everybody we thought had a need to know.  The builder, and the loan officer.  Well, the closing company never got the word, and it took two weeks for them to look at why the computer was rejecting the application. (As an aside, and as anybody who's ever worked with data knows, the computer ALWAYS tells you what the issue is, the message it uses to tell you may be hard to decipher and find the specific incorrect data, but it can be done.  You may have to actually put some effort into the process though. An error message of  "address incorrect" shouldn't be that hard though.)

Been quite a bit of finger pointing going on in the financial world in our little burg.  Meanwhile, the end of the month is rapidly approaching, at which point, we will have to pay rent on the new house for October.

But...Tuesday rolled around, the boys from the moving company showed up on time.  A little over a thousand dollars and 3.5 hours later, our stuff is in the new house.  First priority was putting together the bed and figuring out how to turn on the oven to cook the pizza.  A nice Malbec from Argentina rounded out the first dinner in the place.

The rest of the week has been unpacking boxes, some of which have been sealed since we first moved into la vieja casa de juvat twenty years ago.  Most of the stuff in them went directly to St Vinnies or the trash, because if we haven't needed it in twenty years...

But there were a few treasures that have been resuscitated.

A collage my Mom made for me, probably for Christmas 1980.  Top Center is my first flight in the mighty Tweet (T-37), below that is Dad administering my commissioning oath.  Below that on the right is me exiting the dunking pool after my first solo in the Tweet. To its left is a snowball fight outside the 80TFS (THE Juvats) building in early 1980. Bottom right corner is me playing pinball at the Kunsan O'Club.  I'm pretty sure it's Christmas 1980 as I had PCS'd home in early December of that year and spent Christmas with them.  After New Years, I reported in at Moody and met my Wife that day.  She's not in any of the above pictures.  Therefore...

 

Note the perfect fingertip formation in the top right.

My office is down to 3 boxes to be unpacked.  One is probably going to be tossed in the trash, another is waiting on some shelves to be put up.  One simply must chronicle one's military career, by displaying the unit coffee cup for each of one's assignments.  Picture to follow at a later date.

The last box is all the unfiled photos taken since Mrs J's arrival on the scene.  Got to go through them, cull some, and sort the rest into the appropriate preservation boxes e.g. pictures of Little Juvat, pictures of MBD, Family shots etc.  Adding some historic content on the back would probably be a good thing also.  Hasn't been done as of yet, because...Time.  Running out of validity for that excuse.

I've gotten pretty good at hanging curtains.  One of the things we love about the new house is its openness and the amount of light that comes in.  It is also very well insulated, however, around 3PM sitting in the dining room can get a tad warm.  So curtains are nice.

Did I mention the backyard Firepit was completed yesterday?  Mason recommended 3 week curing period before the first fire.  Mid-October should be cool enough to warrant one.

View from the Kitchen.

Still haven't gotten the large screen TV, but our Refrigerator and Washer and Dryer should arrive on Tuesday.  The Beer Refrigerator has been doing yeoman's work keeping the victuals cold.  It did request relief to return to duty as the beer and wine fridge only.  It is pretty old.

 

Great room from front entrance looking out at backyard and firepit

The next phase of the project is to screen in that back porch and add the petio (Patio for Pets aka "Petio") to the left.  Basically the view out the dining room window will be through the petio out to the back yard.  That will allow us to put a pet door through the wall which will allow the cats (and dogs) to go out at night, while still remaining safe.  A unexpected benefit of that will be uninterrupted sleep for Mrs J and I vs having to get up at Oh-dark-thirty and let them out.  

They are VERY vocal about that request.  I've heard quieter alert klaxon's.

And the following basically sums up my progress through the last few days.

This has been my "Honey-Do" combat station.  I start the day with the coffee maker on the left, progress through the day making tools useful and end it with a bit of Bruichladdich (Brew-Kuh-law'-dick, roll the first syllable) for to assist in sleeping through feline alert klaxons.

Front entrance is storage for emptied boxes.  The recycling guys are going to just "LOVE" us!

 

We have high hopes to take a bit of a vacation for Mrs J's birthday the end of October, meeting MBD and SIL at Lost Pines Resort near Bastrop.  Should be fun.

Peace to y'all and try and keep calm,  November 3rd will arrive pretty soon, here's hoping praying that both sides accept the outcome like completely peaceful adults.