It’s got a military connotation with that “movement report” jargon. It was a more active day than normal yesterday, requiring detailed planning and extensive preparation. We uprooted from Farm to Town for management issues. Not quite lock-stock-and-whatever, but close enough. The Chairman indicates he will hold onto it for a while, just in case.

We had been up early at The Farm. Grey skies, rain threatening. Country cold. We got a text from the moving crew with a link to a truck-tracker for time of arrival. It made the day for all subsequent events- they would arrive around nine, so things were off in a roar.

Timing worked. The rain didn’t start until after the truck was loaded. The crew from MyGuy Movers was awesome. They were on-time and the three of them on the crew moved awkward loads with balance and a certain grace while traversing box-laden flooring and service elevators.

Very strange departure from the Piedmont, since there were three of us headed north and three vehicles to be moved off the property. It was a formation approach back toward the capital, a convoy formed. It had been a while for that! Rural at first, with average speed and rational spacing. Then much more interesting approaching the eternal construction project that broadens I-66. Thirty-odd miles of it.

Big Pink, our destination, was ready for our return. Truck parking not an issue and unloading a steady stream. Stephan- pronounced “Ste-Faan”- was the Verizon guy for the FIOS install. He showed up as scheduled, late afternoon, so matchless logistics ran the complete course of the major movement event.

Now we are sitting on plush reclining chairs, bereft of electricity to operate due to failed planning. The initial phase of this deployment commences!

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