Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - - Moving In

a.m.

Movers are coming to day with the container and all of our stuff.
We have rolled up the trusty aerobed and moved the single plastic chair off to the side to allow for maximum room for incoming furniture.
The thought of having furniture again is strangely exciting.

The movers advance team (i.e. the guy who will drive the truck) is coming around 7 to make the determination of where they will park the container.
We expect some disagreement about method. Hoale-folk (that's us) think the driveway is too narrow and has too many overhanging trees for the container truck to make it safely into the driveway. Also, with the very limited turnaround room, they would need to back in. The guy Mark talked to on the phone seemed skeptical that we knew what we were talking about and said it would be "up to the driver."

p.m.


Well, the container has come and gone.
The driver showed up at 7:30 with the container.
By the time they had negotiated the rig back into the drive way with minimal damage to the forest, the crew showed up. We ended up compromising on bringing the container in to the driveway. They ended up agreeing that it wouldn’t fit all the way up to the house, but did want to back it in far enough to get it off the street. This all made more sense to us when they were done positioning the container and the rig unhitched and drove off. Certainly blocking the street starts to look more of a problem when you can’t move the massive metal box blocking it.

The guys unloading were great. Very nice…even concerned about wearing their shoes into the house. It took about 5 hours. Definitely more breaks than on the Oakland end, but ,hey…we’re in Hawaii. We have about 95% of the boxes put away. A few things we just put in the garage for another day.

Now we are waiting for the DirecTV technician….again. He was supposed to be here between noon and 5. Its 5:05 and no satellite guy in sight.