Finally, we're done with the first part of our move. The bulk of our stuff sits in storage, while the rest is in our temporary quarters in one of Babson's grad housing apartments. It's a little light on furniture (it was a staff apartment, and the previous resident had mostly her own stuff), but it'll do.

Given how much of our stuff is already in a box or bag I'm hoping the actualy move will go pretty smoothly. That's probably a pipe dream, but hope will spring etermal until reality crashes in.

As part of our tying up loose ends today, we took our change bottle (a 2 liter soda bottle) to the Coinstar machine in the supermarket (my distaste for rolling coins outweighing their fee). We had a lot of change, earning over $60, even after taking out the fee.

Of course, we had our share of rejected coins. Some were understandable, like the usual collection of Canadian coins. I think, though, that someone who went before us didn't check the returned coin slot. That's the only way I can explain how we got a Canadian $2 coin. They're a little big for the bottleneck.

Also represented in coins we brought back:

Aruba
Trinidad and Tobago
The Netherlands
Cayman Islands
France (a half-franc coin; the only Euro money we got was a 5 cent piece with the Greek logo on it)
Bermuda
Ecuador
Ireland (1p)
Jamaica (whose 5 cent piece has Marcus Garvey on it)
Great Britain
East Caribbean States (some sort of British dependency whose 5 cent piece is this wavy-shaped thing)

There are also several Asian coins that I can't place, though I think more than one country is represented. There is also a Middle Eastern country represented, as the script on the coin looks like Arabic. One of the sides has an ear of corn on it, though, so perhaps I'm not seeing it well.

We also wound up with a New York City transit token and a 1943 steel US penny.