Mike's departure
Mike was supposed to have left for Austin earlier today, but it turned out that he wasn't able to get his car repaired and smog-checked in time. Over the next 6 hours he rented a U-haul, got his car hitched to it, and went from not having packed a single box to having everything he owned secured and ready to move. And now he's on his way. The man is nothing if not adaptable (and he is adaptable).
Mike's cardboard box collection included a number of the boxes that my stuff had come here in, nearly two years ago now. They would come in the mail four or five at a time, packed so densely that they barely held together, and Mike hauled them inside and stacked them up neatly to await my arrival. Tonight I finally got to pay him back… at least, if we ignore the fact that he was carrying them upstairs and I carried them downstairs.
I've lived with Mike the entire time I've been in San Francisco. Getting started here would have been a lot harder without him. I'm grateful to him, for that and for all sorts of other things.
Mike's cardboard box collection included a number of the boxes that my stuff had come here in, nearly two years ago now. They would come in the mail four or five at a time, packed so densely that they barely held together, and Mike hauled them inside and stacked them up neatly to await my arrival. Tonight I finally got to pay him back… at least, if we ignore the fact that he was carrying them upstairs and I carried them downstairs.
I've lived with Mike the entire time I've been in San Francisco. Getting started here would have been a lot harder without him. I'm grateful to him, for that and for all sorts of other things.