i got lucky. i had been unlucky for a bit. i was lucky for a bit before.
life is often more about luck than anything else. you've heard that; i've heard that. you learn that it's true.
i executed as well as possible, but i needed luck to succeed.
clearing items out of the hotel was somewhat challenging because they wouldn't give me the keys until friday morning. i thought they'd for sure give them over on thursday night, but they made me wait. i had to clear the hotel room by 11:00 am and they wouldn't give me the keys until 9:00 am. the only way i could do that - and i did - was by cramming everything onto a shopping cart and trekking it across town. i would have done that anyways, but if i had a headstart on thursday night then i would have done it in one trip; as it is, i had to leave some thing behind and walk back to get them, then bicycle them back in trips, and then do it again today. the bicycle trips that i would have done on thursday night got pushed to friday night and saturday and i lost not one but two days. that is now over with - everything is out of the hotel and into the apartment.
the electricity is on. the heat works. the fridge works; the stove less so. the shower has some problems. it looks like the place got half rebuilt and then halted, due to lack of interest. there are a few things that will need to be finished. it's a nice enough place, though. i'm just high enough up to get clean air from the windows and i'm very excited about that, as it's been too long since i've been able to open the windows in the summer and enjoy it. the internet works. the phone works. i think essentially all of the basics are in order.
the next thing to do i clean in here, and start taking things back out of storage. i should be able to cart out a fair amount of it while i'm waiting for funding from the city, but i'm also going to be focusing on items on a needs basis. for example, the first trip will get my measuring scale and some measuring cups, so i can start eating in my normal schedule again. i've just been eyeballing the cereal recently.
tonight, i need to do some loose ends like call teksavvy, fill out the oesp form, etc and then get to cleaning, in preparation of the first storage run tomorrow.
this is a bigger apartment than the last one, and is more comparable in size to the apartment on tuscarora, but bigger.
i have actually been thinking about how to reapproach the discography for quite a while and will likely aggressively get back to work, if my conditions are controlled again. i will have far clearer workstations in the apartment than i have had in a while, and it should help me kickstart back into productivity quite quickly.
so, i'm hoping i can get back to work very quickly and that i get a lot of work done very fast. it will be a little bit different than previous, and more comprehensive.