And they're off!

At about 5:50 this morning, someone came to pick julian_tiger up and take him to Newark Airport for his flight to Seattle. He cheerfully went to meet her at the door (he meets almost everyone who rings the doorbell), and was no trouble at all to get into his travel kennel. He's been napping in it ever since we got it set up: it's a nice padded cave.

This somehow feels like we're committed, in a different way than signing the lease in Bellevue or sending out changes of address.

The movers show up sometime in the next three hours; fairly soon into that I expect to have to shut down this computer and put it in my carry-on bag. If you need me urgently, I have the cellphone (which is decidedly not a smartphone, so it won't get email, but the battery life is excellent).

So far so good

Julian is safely in his temporary quarters in the Seattle area, and they even sent a picture.

The moving company apparently sent their A team, who showed up at 8 a.m. sharp and had everything packed and loaded by about 5:15. We are now in a midtown hotel, and tomorrow will go uptown, do a bit of last-minute cleaning (including discarding stuff ranging from half a bottle of olive oil to the cleaning supplies under the kitchen sink) and give the super the keys. Sometime moderately soon there ought to be dinner; unfortunately, while I worked in this neighborhood for 4 years, what I mostly know is lunchtime salad bars and food courts s couple of blocks east. It's unfortunate that Korean food is mostly too spicy for me, because this block is the heart of Manhattan's Korean section.

I am hoping for a call soon from the people who are supposed to be taking the comic books. (Last night fell through for reasons never entirely explained, and the latest was that they would call back around 7, or 45 minutes ago.