The Laws of Moving

There should be laws when moving. Particularly when you're moving your business AND your house at the same time.

Let me introduce you to the 10 laws of moving:

Law #1
Instead of boxing, cleaning and moving literally tonnes of computer equipment, furniture and other knick-knacks, you should be allowed to burn the lot from the former residence/office and then get a 'magical' wish/rebate the other end to replace the lot with new stuff.

Law #2
You are excused from everything. Moving is stressful and tiring. You are allowed to be obnoxious, rude and angry for a period of 2 weeks prior to moving and 2 weeks after the move.

Law #3
All favours can be called in without exception. This includes all those people's who's computers you've repaired, the hordes of people who come ask for computing advice and those you have lent a hand over the years.

Law #4
Anything not worn, viewed or used in the past 3 years is able to recycled, handed on, given-away or disposed of.

Law #5
You will always lose one box when moving, but regain the box you lost in the previous move.

Law #6
No matter how well you think you have estimated the effort required, you will under-estimate the task. You will under-estimate the task.

Law #7
Something will be broken in the move. It's only stuff, so don't stress too much about it, it can be replaced.

Law #8
There is no such thing as too many boxes, packing tape, bubble-wrap and packing clothes/paper.

Law #9
Some boxes are never unpacked. The contents of these boxes will remain locked away in these boxes for years to come.

Law #10
You never have enough time to move. Moving is supposed to be cram 2n days in n days.

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Having said that, we've survived the move. We moved in last Friday (12^th December). Yes, we had a few things damaged (nothing major, but does require some love, hammers and glue to repair a few pieces).

We're working through the boxes (albeit slowly). I think by the time signed 32-bit integers roll over we'll be unpacked.
The essentials are unpacked and we're making some progress through the rest of the house.

All in all, it's been successful; though we're thankful the experience is over. We're dead beat and looking forward to going into Xmas/New Years mode for a few days to recharge the batteries.

Most things around the place are complete; although we do have a handful of tradies due back to finish up their jobs (mainl due to them 'forgotting' or stuffing up. Gawd, the general population of trades-people out there are slap happy. There is no-way I would get away with some of the crap they pull. I'm finding unless you watch 'em like a hawk you'll end up with a dodgy or half-asses job. They are learning quickly though, that I write down everything so nothing slips by me. I've caught a few of 'em out now and it seems the word is getting around. Hopefully by the first week in January all these items are cleared up.

One bonus: It's great to finally have a house with central cooling!