Countdown to the Big Move - II

End of January '08: Just few days remaining now and we have been packing at a feverish pace. Most of the stuff has been packed and set aside. Dan decides to pack the roof box. I will take a moment here to rave about the Yakima Space cadet. It has tremendous amount of capacity and probably more space than my car trunk!! That's the picture of my car taken from my basement window. Dan manages to pack in quite a bit of stuff into the roof box. That makes us hopeful - maybe we can after all fit all our belongings into the car.

My friend Shachi, who was my lab-neighbor in Stony Brook few years back, stopped by to say goodbye and help me pack. Shachi now works for Estee Lauder and brought a bunch of Estee Lauder goodies with. I will really miss hanging out with her - our meetings in the Malls and Starbucks (yes folks, that's all LI has to offer)!!

Countdown to the Big Move - I

Some Date, January'08: So, finally the day we've been long waiting for is here. Time has come to pack up our bags and leave. Or more appropriately, stuff up the car and drive away. Packing is not an easy task. Are the boxes from Life Sciences going to be enough? Sparing you the details, we finally have (between the two of us), 12 boxes and 2 gigantic suitcases. Thank god for USPS's extremely low shipping rates!!

OK, so the rest of the stuff has to go into the car, which is not much, just some clothes, some breakable items near and dear to us, some shoes, some camping gear, Dan's toolboxes, miscellaneous stuff, and this and that. Things just keep popping out of the wood work!!

So, we decide to pile up our stuff into two categories: stuff we take and stuff that's giveaway. Stuff we take goes on top of the coffee table, doesn't seem like a big pile does it? We'll see about that.

There's this new Japanese guy - Mr. Yo who joined my lab (or my ex-lab) recently. I rope him in to collect my stuff that he can use. Yo is a very nice guy and takes most of our stuff. The same day I am selling my futon and I get a buyer!! He is this Indian guy, who has just moved to LI, he shows up the same time as Mr. Yo. He is slightly confused, but anyways buys my futon.

We go out to dine out with Mr. Rhee and his wife (our Korean friends). Dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Rhee is very pleasant. We sure will miss them!