On moving

We've (mostly) moved to a new (to us) residence.

Getting out of the old house has been slow, but we do have a deadline, as the old house is under contract to sell at a substantial discount under what it would be worth if fixed up. Nearly everything is out. We're left with gardening tools and supplies, hand tools and a few odds and ends. The rest we'll likely leave behind because the contract allows that.

At this point I think all of our books are out. About half the artwork is out.

We're still getting things sorted in the new place, still painting here and there, still finding new places to put old things.

I'd like to carve out more time for the life-enriching things I consider important. I have ten things on my list. I'd like to touch on more than three each day.

We gave up on AT&T for DSL. We gave up on AT&T altogether, because they botched the move order for the analog land line and after spending hours trying to get someone who both cared and knew what they were doing, I gave up on them. Now we're with Cox (😐) for internet, at the lowest pricing tier. They haven't introduced hard data caps here, but since they sort of talk of having a 1TB cap, what's the point of having faster service if it's possible to hit the cap at the lowest tier of service if one were to run it flat-out for a whole month? I hope that having Cox for internet is a better experience than having them for cable TV was.

We're still a cut-cord household - we had an antenna installed and it's hard to be happier with it. All the local channels we care about come through splendidly.

We giving up AT&T we also gave up the landline number I'd had for a long time. With all the junk calls it received, this isn't that much of a loss. It does mean relying more on mobile phones and the attendant per-minute charges, but even with a pay-for-what-one-uses plan (yay Ting!), we pay less than we would with an "unlimited" plan with one of the big carriers. VoIP like Google Voice fills part of the gap.

With Cox internet, OpenWRT would panic reboot when starting WoW. I haven't yet determined why. Connecting our actual WiFi access point directly to the cable modem was fine, though.