moving update

[arethinn]

Done:

• Reservation for moving people to park a big-ass trailer in front of my house for two days.


• Reservation for hideously expensive car rental*.


• Plans for storage facility (which I can't actually reserve until 2 weeks in advance). Storage facilitiy reconned to be sure of being able to get said big-ass trailer to needed location.


• Plans for health insurance to cover 3 months before OHIP eligibility.

Still to do:

• See if I need to do any kind of medical release stuff with Kaiser as I did with my dentist.


• Acquire sufficient boxes and packing material. The large television I got from the_misha and tiggrrl is going to be especially Chinese-interesting. (Think about hitting up, like, a Circuit City or something for a big enough box.)


• Extract letters of reference from last two supervisors.


• Continue transferring MST3K to DVD to avoid having to take tons of VHS tapes along with me (progressing pretty well on this - up to about 3/5, maybe even 2/3 complete?).


• Finish revising resume.


• Check past credit card bill to see when to cancel dial-up ISP account to avoid being billed for a month I won't use.


• Take sufficient money out of Commonwealth account and put it in Wells Fargo, where it's accessible to me in Canada. (How am I going to handle the bulkier transfer involved in setting up my Canadian bank accounts?)

Hmm... nothing else coming to mind at the moment. Sure there are probably other things escaping me without the checklist thing in front of me...

* - It really gets up there when you rent for a month. I dunno how soon I'm going to be able to buy a car, see, but I need something in which to get around while applying for jobs and all. And in the words of the Arrogant Worms, "screw the GST"! The rate by itself is bad enough without tacking an extra $107.83 in PST/GST on it. (sailin' down to Saskatoon; the terror of the seas...)

Comments

[tyrsalvia.livejournal.com]

When are you leaving? Will there be a goodbye party? And, if not, I'd really like to see you before you go, so we should do something.

[arethinn]

When are you leaving?

The actual date of my flight is May 5, but I'll be pretty busy that week. Can't predict what things will be like in the two weeks prior to that after my last work day (April 13).

Will there be a goodbye party?

I have no plans for one. (No place to have one, for starters.) I had thought I would show up ar your birthday party. Is that not on?

[ungarsfragile.livejournal.com]

from Prince Albert down to Saskatoon, the terror of the sea;
if you want to reach the co-op boy, you've gotta get by me

[arethinn]

So they ARE saying "co-op"? I was never sure because it didn't seem to make sense in context. Maybe my idea of what a "co-op" is is not the kind of think they are referring to.

[ungarsfragile.livejournal.com]

Co-op is a store in more rural parts of canada (especially the canadian midwest: alberta, saskatchewan and manitoba). In rural areas they sell all the farm basics, feed/seed, fertilizer, heavy equipment.. in urban areas, they're more like your standard grocery stores. You can join co-op and get a dividend from how much profit they make, usually in the form of a gift cheque based on however much you personally spent at co-op in the past year.

http://www.fcl.ca/
http://www.calgarycoop.com/index.jsp

[arethinn]

OK. I was thinking of the "grocery store" sense (there was one in Sacramento where I used to live). I didn't know about the more rural connotation so I was having trouble with the image of "If you want to get to the grocery store, which is somewhere on the riverbank"...?? Gotcha.

[lupagreenwolf.livejournal.com]

Having jusy gone through moving, I wish you safe, swift, and nonproblematic travels :)