New Apartment Woes

Hi folks, been a while -- was coordinating The Grand Migration of one apartment to another.

Lessons learned

Read the damn contract. If you moved in and no one painted the apartment for you, then you don't need to paint it on the way out.

Spam your landlord. Make it very clear what damage existed before and what didn't, and make sure you clarify on every action required to get your deposit back.

Be nice to your neighbors. Even those you barely speak to, if you lather them up with leaving gifts they're likely to forgive you for the racket of transporting a washing machine down 4 flights of stairs.

Have a large extended family. If you don't have a large extended family, make sure that your SO has a large extended family. Five people ready to dedicate resources to your problem at a moment's notice is not something I'm used to, but boy was it incredibly helpful.

Clean, clean, clean. The apartment might be a piece of junk, but if it's a *clean* piece of junk then it's basically a palace, and no one can claim you denigrated it by living in it.

Don't take a holiday 2 weeks before the deadline. You won't enjoy the holiday, and you won't enjoy all the extra work when you get back.

Keep all your current contracts if you can. If you're on an old energy contract, try to keep it when you move. Same with internet.

Resolve every fight with your SO via a shared meal. If you break bread, all the drama before is washed away under the banner of "we were just exhausted".

Download movies/cartoons/anime at work, so that you have something on your phone to watch in the evenings.

Anime watched over the last few weeks

SpyXFamily: Cool triple-deceit concept, but the characters are boring.

Tokyo Revengers: Cool time-travel concept, but the main character is at least 2 steps behind the audience which gets annoying.

Mushishi S2: Lovely visuals, beautiful story, and given the slow and gentle way people talk (or barely at all) to one another, the animators must have enjoyed making this one.

Humanity has Declined: Great meta-commentary on the state of the world, with some nice bouts of amnesia and out-of-order storytelling involving Nature, Industries, and Faeries.

Looking forward to the end of this week, when all this moving drama is over and I can mentally move on with my life.

contrarian

SpyXFamily is getting a second season.

tetris

I'll watch it, but not with vigor

xiu

Thanks for the tips, ~tetris! Can definitely relate to the resolving of fights point. Exhaustion is a heck of a thing and sneaks up on you when you're not expecting it to. Hope the rest of the move goes smoothly.

tetris

We're still missing internet and some things still need to be resolved finance-wise, but we're finally out of the frying pan and into a nice lukewarm fire

inquiry

Welcome back. Nice to read you again.

tetris

Good to be back. I can't make sense of the world anymore on the main sites like Reddit and HN. It's just a blur of nonsensical headlines, probably spewed out by bots. I'm frightened.

inquiry

To me the vast majority of sites seem shoddy practice in hopes of perfecting blur.

That, or my mental faculties are diminishishing at a rate greater than exponential.

I'm more paralyzed than frightened. But the latter can be quite gripping when its winds blow just right.

tetris

Blur is a good word here. It's a word soup of headlines, and it's hard to make sense of what is meant to be meaningful and what isn't

enderasg

Thanks tetris, will keep in mind if i ever move hehehe

tetris

Pro-tip1: Never move. It's more hassle than it's worth.
Pro-tip2: If you do have to move, don't kid yourself in pretending you don't have much stuff. A basement full of broken bicycle parts, is still "stuff".

inquiry

I would add:

- Pro-tip3: If you insist on moving, at least do so before you've hit an age and/or physical state in which injury recovery just plain isn't going to happen the way it used to. -OR- be rich enough to be able to pay others to dick with the shit....

tetris

No joke. My back and shoulders are in a serious state right now. Haven't slept properly in days, though all the stuff is now where it should be and all the furniture rebuilt