It's been a dark time for the Rebellion, as per the opening narrative crawl for The Empire Strikes Back. To our complete surprise, a couple of weeks after our 12 month lease came to an end, the property agent announced that the owners of our rental condo had decided to sell, and that we were being evicted.
The next couple of months were a whirlwind of apartment hunting and packing, with our move taking place just four days after we got back from our scheduled Ucluelet vacation.
We've ended up back in Kitsilano, in a slightly older ground-level unit. It's not quite as nice as the condo we were pushed out of*, not to mention being a bit storage challenged, but it's a great location with a huge kitchen, and we're getting nicely settled in.
Sadly, the move was almost as much of a comedy act as our last one. In a strange coincidence, once again our promised three movers was only two for half the move, which added in some time, and they somehow managed to destroy one of my bookshelves to the point where they threw it away and took $50 off the bill. Unfortunately, they also threw away the shelves from ANOTHER bookshelf, thereby leaving me down by two units.
This means that the second bedroom is still mostly full of books in boxes, and thanks to the current supply chain issues, stock shortages at IKEA mean that those books are going to stay in those boxes for the foreseeable future, which is something of a nuisance.
Funny, I don't remember them ever talking about having this sort of problem when the Rebellion moved to Hoth...
- Sid
* Odd how the title crawl for The Empire Strikes Back still works here: we were driven from our hidden base, so to speak.
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