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momentous week
Nov. 13th, 2009 09:13 pmTuesday I received the examiner's report. Wednesday they delivered my boxes. These two facts alone would be enough to keep me very, very busy. Add to that experiments to upload, microprobe time, a conference next month to prepare for...
I saw the first bad news about the box delivery while the delivery guys were still there--we unwrapped all of the odd-shaped items from the huge sheets of bubble wrap, and set the resultant giant bag of bubble wrap away with the delivery guys. This means that I found out straight away that when the movers in Tassie "packed" my trike all they did was wrap a single large sheet of bubble wrap around it--they made no attempt to box it or do anything to protect it from pressure. As a result one of the wheels is seriously bent and the trike is totally un-rideable. I am particularly annoyed by this because I packed everything else myself, taking care to protect everything that could possibly be damaged. I had intended to put the folded trike into a large box, and then put my bean-bag chair into the same box to keep it from shifting around during transit. However, I didn't find a large enough box in the Uni box-store room, and ran out of time to go to a store and purchase a large box. When the shipping guys arrived I told them that I had wanted to put it into a box but ran out of time to do so, and they assured me that they were good at packing bikes and odd shaped things, and they would be fine with it. I still had things to pack in the back room, so I left them to it, and didn't see the results of their failed attempt at packing till it arrived.
On Wednesday I was a little surprised when the shippers said that that was the last of it and the truck was empty, but the pile looked more or less large enough. Today I finally managed to get the last of the large boxes unpacked so that there was enough room to move the pile of smaller boxes around so that we could see the numbers and compare them to our inventory. As it turns out there are seven items missing. Consulting the inventory the missing boxes and suitcase contains things like all of my best linen, wool, and silk for sewing projects, my highschool and university diplomas, a variety of good books, including some of the Harry Potter books, some of the books my mother wrote containing her memories, the music books I bought to learn to play my hammer dulcimer.
I've sent the list to the shipping companies who had control of my things in transit. I really, really hope they can find them!
This weekend I need to finish getting pdfs of my thesis ready for printing so that they can be at the printers in Tassie when they open on Monday, open and polish the capsules from my second experiment, get the data from today's microprobe session into the correct format for use in Mathmatica (and hope that we can figure out why the program isn't yet properly dealing with the routines my colleagues have written on my computer, when the same files work fine on theirs soon), get the boxes unpacked and the stuff organized. Does anyone have an extra five days I can borrow so that I can get it all done before Monday?
I saw the first bad news about the box delivery while the delivery guys were still there--we unwrapped all of the odd-shaped items from the huge sheets of bubble wrap, and set the resultant giant bag of bubble wrap away with the delivery guys. This means that I found out straight away that when the movers in Tassie "packed" my trike all they did was wrap a single large sheet of bubble wrap around it--they made no attempt to box it or do anything to protect it from pressure. As a result one of the wheels is seriously bent and the trike is totally un-rideable. I am particularly annoyed by this because I packed everything else myself, taking care to protect everything that could possibly be damaged. I had intended to put the folded trike into a large box, and then put my bean-bag chair into the same box to keep it from shifting around during transit. However, I didn't find a large enough box in the Uni box-store room, and ran out of time to go to a store and purchase a large box. When the shipping guys arrived I told them that I had wanted to put it into a box but ran out of time to do so, and they assured me that they were good at packing bikes and odd shaped things, and they would be fine with it. I still had things to pack in the back room, so I left them to it, and didn't see the results of their failed attempt at packing till it arrived.
On Wednesday I was a little surprised when the shippers said that that was the last of it and the truck was empty, but the pile looked more or less large enough. Today I finally managed to get the last of the large boxes unpacked so that there was enough room to move the pile of smaller boxes around so that we could see the numbers and compare them to our inventory. As it turns out there are seven items missing. Consulting the inventory the missing boxes and suitcase contains things like all of my best linen, wool, and silk for sewing projects, my highschool and university diplomas, a variety of good books, including some of the Harry Potter books, some of the books my mother wrote containing her memories, the music books I bought to learn to play my hammer dulcimer.
I've sent the list to the shipping companies who had control of my things in transit. I really, really hope they can find them!
This weekend I need to finish getting pdfs of my thesis ready for printing so that they can be at the printers in Tassie when they open on Monday, open and polish the capsules from my second experiment, get the data from today's microprobe session into the correct format for use in Mathmatica (and hope that we can figure out why the program isn't yet properly dealing with the routines my colleagues have written on my computer, when the same files work fine on theirs soon), get the boxes unpacked and the stuff organized. Does anyone have an extra five days I can borrow so that I can get it all done before Monday?
