Important Stuff -- Or Not: Moving On

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Moving On

As you morning-coffee regulars have noticed, my posting has been spotty at best during the last few weeks. It will probably be worse for the next 4-6 weeks. After a decade in this apartment, I'm moving. This is the longest I've lived in one place in my entire life. Not moving to the other side of the world this time, or even the other side of town, but from the 7th floor to the 6th. I made a long post about this early today, but my finger slipped off a key and the whole thing disappeared into never-never land. My new apartment will have a balcony, new appliances, a redesigned kitchen, better carpeting (no stains) and other upgrades that I don't know about yet. I've always maintained that everyone should lift everything they own once a year to give them perspective on their life. I'm not as strong as I was 10 years ago, and I've accumulated a bunch of junk since I moved here with just what I could fit in my minivan, so I might have to use my rotary saw to make certain things fit down the garbage chute. I spent my morning driving around aimlessly, sort of window-shopping with my top down because it was such a beautiful day. I spent the afternoon tracking down elements of a Lone Ranger outfit. Now, I'll spend my evening seeing what's on my new cable service. I'm not lifting a finger to clean, or install my new video system, or do anything else until I move. I'm pretty sure they are going to gut this place and upgrade it like the apartment I'm moving into when I leave. So, that solves the problem of cleaning behind the stove that I haven't been able to move in 10 years. Wonder what they'll find back there. If the evolutionists are right, I'd be careful.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: Exciting stuff! Michael and I had our house built and we swore that we would never move. That was 10 years ago and we both still love our home. I hate to think of the things we have accumulated over the past 10 years...especially since I'm a pack rat and everything has a "memory"...

You had me frightend for a moment... thought you were going to say you were leaving your blog...

Whew!! I'm relieved!

Happy Moving!; 6:33 PM
Tonto said...: Congrats!! Did all the new apartments go to people moving from one to another? If so it is likely going to be mayhem around with all of you moving apartments.

I am not a packrat and yet when we moved into this house April 2005 we had so much stuff...after I packed three boxes I was tired and bored and I said ok let's just throw all the rest away and start fresh!

Moving is torture.

I have to have yard sales at least twice a year just to keep the house "doable" and semi clutter free.

I learned where to "Take" it all too. If you have old towels and blankets you decide to toss...your local veterinary hospital/shelter would love to have them for their pets staying there.

I gave all my baby stuff to homeless shelter for pregnant women. Not that you have baby stuff.

and the Local Home for Veterans picks up all my appliances and men's clothes.

Happy packing!!; 12:29 PM
Lone Ranger said...: Hmmm, I'm going to have to find a homeless shelter for audiophiles. I need to get rid of some 30-year-old stereo gear that's still in good condition. And large pieces of furniture like an entertainment center and a stereo cabinet and a few large speakers. I'll have to see if Goodwill does pickups. The trick is to get rid of it before the move. I picked up the papers today and the move will now be somewhere around 2 Feb. That gives plenty of time for all of you to drive to VA.; 8:26 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm driving to New York in the morning... maybe a detour on the way home...; 9:17 PM
Tonto said...: oh wow...february...plenty of time to go through your life and see what you need to keep...as long as your computer and blog are two of them!; 9:43 PM
Lone Ranger said...: I'll be sleeping days when my work week begins tomorrow. But, if you start to feel drowsy....

KIDDING!

I haven't had a total stranger stay here in about 10 years.; 9:45 PM
Lone Ranger said...: I did a property dump about six years ago, when I thought I was getting married. Like a fool, I threw away my beloved Atari ST. I long to have it back, but those things hardly ever appear on e-bay. Most of my clothing could be thrown out, since I don't think the Nehru jacket will ever make a comeback. I have a few very nice suits that I bought dirt-cheap from a diplomat in Japan. I'm in the process now of shrinking to fit them again. Keeping one uniform to be buried in. Maybe I'll find my missing combat boot and I can wear my BDU pants to work and make everyone nervous.; 9:52 PM

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1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

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Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.