Update on moving home!

[beatrice_otter]

My last day here at my current call is THIS SUNDAY.  On Saturday, I load up all my stuff into a UHaul UBox (i.e. pod).  On Sunday, I have my last service here.  On Monday, I fly out.

In between now and then?  PANIC AS I DO ALL THE THINGS.

Tomorrow I go down to the city for two meetings and two visits to parisioners.  Wednesday evening I go down to pick up my Mom from the airport (she's flying in to help me pack and stuff).  While in the city, I need to:

• Visit the Verizon store and change my number so it will be local to my new church.
• Get packing stuff from UHaul
• Drop off all the stuff I'm not taking with me but which is still in decent condition at the thrift store.

Other stuff I need to do at home between now and Sunday:

• Write a sermon and finish up all the miscellaneous stuff at work.
• Finish packing
• Change my address everywhere it needs to be changed.
• Close out my bank account at the small local bank in town.
• Find every account (paypal, verizon, charitable donations) that uses that account and change it.

I am sure I am forgetting things.

Oh!  Does anyone have any experience with using a service that gives you a second line on your cell phone?  I would like to do that, and a quick Google gives me Skype Business, Google Voice, and Line2 as my options.  All I really need is a second line on the same phone, so I can have a personal phone number and a professional one without needing to carry two phones with me all the time.  I would also like to be able to make calls on the second line and have the person I'm calling see that number, and not the phone's native number.

Comments

[tielan]

Oof. That's a lot of things - here's hoping you get it all sorted out!

[beatrice_otter]

I am now home in Oregon, and my things will arrive on August 2. Everything is done, and I am now VACATIONING to hopefully find my mind before I have to start at my new church.

[squirelawrence]

I use Google Voice for when I need to give a client a cell phone number - it's been relatively effective and painless. Choosing a number so. you're "local" can end up with getting an weird exchange, so it looks like you're calling from some tiny little town in the middle of nowhere. The main problem is you have to remember to return calls using the Google Voice app, and not your phone's native number. Haven't tried the other two applications you noted, so nothing really to compare it to.

Good luck on the move!

[raxeira]

Definitely a lot to tackle! Good luck! I hope both the organizing and the moving go easy! :)

[monanotlisa]

I used SIDELINE; Google has changed too much for me to give them even more data and power. (Of course, privacy at smaller companies is likely more iffy for other reasons.)