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urso and tardis officially moved into their new apartment yesterday, and dhpbear, bigjohnsf, and bestbear_icanbe, Simon, Lily, and I all helped them move in. Urso came and picked Plumpy, John, and I up from UGH and we went to Fremont to pick up the U-Haul truck they were renting. Tom-tardis picked up Simon and Lily and met us there, bringing Noah’s bagels. I ate a blueberry bagel for breakfast. Once we had the truck in hand, we all trundled off to Hayward to the storage facility where Urso’s belongings were being held.
The apartment isn’t big enough for all of Urso’s stuff, so he and Plumpy sorted through the stuff, dividing it into stuff to go into the apartment, and stuff to remain behind. Lily, Plumpy and I loaded the cart and I pushed it down to the freight elevator, where Simon and Tom-tardis would send an empty cart up, I would replace the empty cart with a full cart, and send it down, where the two of them would load it into the truck. John’s job was to drive the truck.
That accomplished, we headed into Frank-baby via the San Mateo bridge, after learning via my phone call to 511 that the traffic on the Bay Bridge was moving at around 10 MPH. We got the truck unloaded and Urso unpacked a few of his plastic storage bins to use for Tom-tardis’ segment of the move. While Tom had already been moving a goodly chunk of his stuff into the apartment during the week, he still had a little bit of unpacked stuff. Next, we all piled into various vehicles and headed to Berkeley to load the truck with Tom-tardis’ much smaller amount of stuff. Plumpy walked home at this point, and the rest of us continued on.
The challenge was how to fit his stuff into the minuscule cozy apartment. We did manage to do it, and we did manage to get the couch and chair into the living room, just barely. Once they unpack all those bins, and install the bookshelves, the apartment will be downright comfy-cozy. I do foretell some challenging months ahead as they adjust to living with each other in such a small space, but that’s really to be expected no matter the circumstances - people have to adjust to each other’s personal habits and quirks when they first live together. That’s part of the fun, isn’t it?
John had to go home and rest before dinner, so he walked home while Tom and I drove over to return the truck, with Urso following in his car, Magic Car-pet. I pointed Tom to a fueling station where he could get diesel, then we got on the freeway to get to Bayshore and Paul streets to return the truck. Back at the apartment, Simon, Lily, and Scott were waiting for us to come back so we could get dinner.
Tom treated us all to pizza dinner at Capri on Market Street - John and Plumpy met us there and progbear showed up to eat with us, too. ednixon and Grizzy made a brief appearance before heading to the Great American Music Hall for a concert. We all walked back to Church and Duboce to make our goodbyes and head home. Plumpy, John and I walked back home, Scott drove Mike back to his car at El Cerrito Del Norte BART, and Simon and Lily drove Tom’s car back to the house in Berkeley.
