(I’m still offline. My computers are mostly still in boxes, but Verizon won’t turn on our DSL until nearly Labor Day, so what’s the rush?)

Anyway, yes, the truck is now unloaded. It took us 1.5 days times three or four workers to load it, but three people unloaded it in just over 5 hours on Tuesday. (It was supposed to be Monday, but if we wanted a more reliable service we could have paid a couple of thousand dollars more and got one.) We packed during a heatwave; it was probably 90 or 95 degrees in New Jersey. Here in the desert it was probably no hotter … but “it’s the dry heat” so much more comfortable.

Speaking of comfortable: we liked to killed ourselves loading the truck, because we didn’t have those hernia-preventing belts that people who lift things us. It took about a week before our backs began to un-cramp. Lesson learned: we each got a back-saving belt (about $12 at Lowe’s) and only a day later our backs are fine.

So far all we’ve unpacked is our beds and a couple of dishes. Now that the truck is unloaded (and should be disappearing today sometime) we can take as long as we want to unpack our boxes. Years, even.

I did take seven boxes of books to the church. I only did enough unpacking to find my NA27 and JPS Tanakh. The rest I can unpack anytime.