I am a REAL engineer

Things are proceeding forward on the moving front. I hadn't heard from the movers, so I called back this morning. Turns out that the woman there is not my favorite person. First, she heard me wrong when I first called last week, and she wrote me down as possibly being moved this Saturday. I guess she couldn't understand my "Yankee" accent. They were booked for this Saturday, and I guess they don't believe in calling and letting you know that they are not going to provide services. So, when I called today we sorted that out, as I described the fact that I was planning to arrive with my truck NEXT Saturday, NOT tomorrow. She proceeded to tell me that they are now booked up for next weekend too. Apparently, had she written it down corectly I would have made it on the schedule for next weekend. At this point I realized that I had no way to get a 50 year old dining room table and buffet and a 90+ (?) year old dresser off of my truck. Needless to say, hysterics ensued.

Fast forward several hours. Now I have yet ANOTHER moving plan. It is only about the 5th one in the last month. Now, instead of taking my stuff down in a truck, flying back to IL to finish the semester and then driving my car down, I'm doing the opposite. I'll drive my car with a load of stuff to MS next weekend. I'll leave it in my garage (yay!) and I'll clean house. Then, since I've paid for it I'll fly to IL and return to school. I'll move my stuff out of the apartment at some point next week (i guess I'll store it somewhere mysterioius). THEN, after a week of school I'll take my stuff down to MS. At that point I won't be pressed for time and can either wait for the movers to have time, or I can bribe people over the course of the week and pay for some extra time on my truck. All in all, this actually seems like it might work out better. I'm not sure why, but it feels like the better option. As you may know, I am all about how things "feel". If it "feels" right, I'm AG. I think I like the idea of having an extra couple of days to clean up the house before I move in the heavy furniture. It will be more pricy, but it will work out somehow because it "feels" right.

An update on the house front. Apparently the stove top works just great. The oven is another story. Somehow they "broke" it while moving out. The digital controls on the oven don't work, so I can't actually change the temperature! Thank Goodness for Home Warranties

Now, on to the post title. They often say that the real engineering gets done in the field. It is all about how you react. The real engineering isn't the design, but dealing with the crises and figuring out how to make it all work. Well, when it comes to moving, I'm an engineer. This is the fifth plan I've had, and I'm sure it will change again before all is said and done. By the way, at some point during all of this I'm going to actually finish my summer school work :-)