A return to something resembling normalcy

Finally, the North American Van Lines company reps pulled up this afternoon to unload my stuff. They were a mere 16 days past their original final delivery estimated date (which was 9 days later than we had requested in the first place...) However, the good news is that the only thing which appears to be missing is a small box. I may even be able to repair the damage to my laptop, which completely crashed yesterday and won't load at all because the codepage and a number of .dlls are corrupted (ah, windows, how we love thee).

The moral of the story here is pretty obvious: don't use a moving company if you

1. want your stuff to arrive on time
2. want your stuff to arrive