On the other side of the heat
The transition from city to suburb is now complete. Karen doesn’t think where we’re at is the suburbs, and while it is down in a little wooded valley, there’s a BestBuy, Petsmart and Mega Walmart just down the street. So, you decide.
The move was motivated by the school district my last place was in. While the old place didn’t have enough space for all of us, it would’ve been much (much) cheaper to find a larger place in the old neighborhood. But the school district was not only academically poor but a bit – rough – for our tastes. So, out to the suburbs.
The move was difficult. I have way too much crap. When I moved over here I used a car and a U-Haul (I don’t remember the size of the truck). The only furniture was a futon I’d purchased from a friend.
This time around I used a 19′ truck, a 24′ truck and many trips with my car. I still have the futon but have added – lots. I really need to pare down. I needed to pare down some time ago, and now that I’ve moved into a spot with more space I need to make sure that, should I fail in my quest to reduce my amount of stuff I don’t expand my stuff collection to fill.
My friends Mark, Chris and Steve helped me move most of the big stuff from my old place to my new place, then Mark and Steve returned to help me move the rest of it. It was brutal hot. Then my parents came to help me clean and move the last few loads over. It was still hot. These folk were lifesavers.
The new place has a garden. It’s a small raised-bed plot, and I’m kinda excited about growing stuff there. We’ll see how that goes. For now I’ve got more than enough to do in the unpacking job.
The project that I thought I’d wrapped up is still hanging on – not really a good thing, but I hope to iron out the lingering issues post haste. But I am starting a new project for the same company soon, and this is a good thing.
One of the reasons we stepped up the schedule for moving into the new place is the wicked heat wave overpowered the window unit I used in the old place. Even when we abandoned all but one room of the house to the heat it was still muggy and uncomfortable. Annoyingly coincidentally the central air at the new place failed our first weekend there. That was wonderful.
The wicked heat wave has abated, by the way.
Not to jinx anything, but I seem to be riding a shallow but extended productivity wave.
I really need a haircut.
Nothing new on the horizon, except a possible Labor Day photo journey.
