Move update: we have keys!

cattitude has picked up the keys to our new apartment, and gone upstairs and taken a look around. (We rented this one based on seeing a floor plan and walking through a similar but slightly smaller place in the same building.) We have electricity (I set that up with PSE about 10 days ago) and the fridge works, and he says things look good.

I think this means I can start doing change-of-address stuff with banks etc.

Since a couple of people have asked this: the help we're likely to need or want once we're out there includes furniture shopping (either advice on places, or someone to drive us to places not reachable by mass transit), unpacking once everything is delivered, and possibly rearranging furniture after we discover we don't like where we first put it. Since Cattitude is working full-time and I'm freelancing (which can also use up a significant amount of time, but I have more control over when), I am likely to be doing some unpacking during the week, and wanting help then. (For me, it's easier to intersperse mental/desk work, which is what my freelance stuff is, and physical labor, than to do separate full days of each.)

Less positively, we're still waiting on replacement nuts and bolts for Julian's air travel carrier; if they don't show up soon, or also don't work, the pet transport person will bring another carrier, but that will mean she has to arrive even earlier than on the original plan. The original plan is pickup between 6 and 6:30 a.m. (so he can be on a 9 a.m. flight and get to Seattle while the place we're boarding him is open).