I am an excellent box packer

I really am. I twist and turn and squeeze and measure and repack until everything fits together like a jigsaw puzzle. Heavy books on the bottom, small books saved until last to fill in the cracks.
As a result, I packed a Strand-size box full of Joe's cookbooks until it was so heavy I couldn't pick it up. Joe heaved it onto the scale and we discovered it weighed over 60 pounds. The Post Office in San Francisco had already warned us that, even though book rate goes up to 70 pounds (which is could have been, since our scale is not too acurate) the boxes have to be able to be lifted by one person for General Delivery. So picked through the remaining pile of Joe's books to find all the lightest ones, then ripped open the bottom of the big boxes and did a switcheroo. Then I took a box that we thought would be too small for books and filled it with the heaviest ones. As a result, they weight almost the same amount.
The point of this slightly boring explanation is that we are packing very, very carefully. Space and money is tight. It is going to take a long time to get it all right, but in the end it will be worth it, making for a smoother move. Wait until the morning I pack up the rental car. It will take longer than it should, but in the end, there won't be an inch wasted. I just hope the axels aren't scraping bottom.
In other news, Multivision called today. Multivision is the company I worked for before this one, and their main office is in San Francisco (well, actually Oakland, which is sort of like the Brooklyn of SF). I had emailed my old manager to let her know I was moving out there and to ask if she could do anything, but never got a response, so when I saw them advertising jobs on Craigslist, I sent my resume. A guy who worked at the NY office for a while, then moved back to SF was the one who called and he said he remembered me. He said my manager did mention I was coming to SF, plus he saw my resume. He gave me his cell phone and told me to call when I got there and he would work something out for me. They have a very high turnover--finding a position for me is not a problem.
So that's taken care of.
It's reasuuring, though I'm not sure I want to work there again, even in the interim. It would be taking a step back, and I'm pretty confident that getting another job is not going to be a problem. Then again, they are part of a much larger company now (they were bought out just before I left) so there might be more opportunities that didn't even exist last time I was there. We shall see.