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Two more boxes unpacked! Well, three, but then I started to fill an empty box with things wot I want to keep but don't need immediate access to, like my diploma and graduation comment book and photographs and stuff. (I'm going to do my darndest to keep that to one filing-box size box, though, to keep down the number of storage boxes we have....) So the net number of boxes removed is two.

Progress, it is being made! Four or five days of this will take care of all the boxes we have. This makes me feel hopeful.

Also, I made slow-roast roast beef (a good way to cook a good-but-not-great cut of meat -- sear until brown on at least two sides, then put in a 225F oven until the internal temp reads 115 [for med-rare] or 120 [for medium or above], then turn off the oven without opening it and let the temperature coast to the final desired doneness), and bleu cheese mashed potatoes. We'll be eating lighter the rest of the week, but it was very tasty indeed.

I have also, thus far:

* Broken the towel bar in the bathroom. (I slipped on the tile floor and grabbed it for support, and it, uh, didn't like that.) We sort of got it back on, but now it's finicky. I think it will need replacing. Sigh.
* Set off the smoke alarm twice. Because that's apparently how I get used to a new oven/stove.
* Messed up the garage door. See, I have never had an automatic garage door, and so, when left to close it, I reached for the cord.... which is apparently the emergency release. We had to take the car back out and get on a stepladder to fix it, but fortunately it was easily fixed once that happened. So it is unbroken. Still, I feel dumb.

All things considered, though, the moving process has gone very smoothly! We even only broke two glasses, out of all our belongings, and that's a pretty good record.

Also, this weekend we saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I thought it was pretty good -- obviously not perfect, but pretty good. Then again, I went into it wanting to like it, and it featured a character I love (I mean, even one besides Indy himself, and I had such a crush on Indiana Jones in my formative years), so I was forgiving. (It also played the 'don't bother nitpicking the plausibility' card early on, so I just stopped asking questions and enjoyed the ride.) Conclusion: not as good as my favorite (Last Crusade, for a great many reasons) but much better than my least favorite (Temple of ~~Stereotypes~~ Doom), and more a coda to the original trilogy than a true sequel, but still fun. I may post more on that later.