Thus ends another two months of living and three months of working at Casa del FreeverseThere's still a bunch of unfinished work I need complete over the coming nights and weekends, but this final (knock on wood) full-time stint at Freeverse has come to a close ( Read more... )

It's freakin' unbelievable, my life now compared to 6 months ago.

In mid-May I was:

• Living with my Mom and trying desperately not to strangle her on her "off" days.
• In a dead-end job at a dead-end company in NoLib.
• Sleeping in my childhood room and its tiny (albeit comfortable) bed.
• A little morose because I couldn't figure out how to get ( Read more... )

Monday will be exactly 3 months since I left Philly. This is what I wrote on the train the evening of Sunday, August 12th:

Man, that (cleaning out the house) was hard! Really, really hard. Almost-had-a-breakdown hard ( Read more... )

Matt, my high school friend and current realtor, just called. The final guys who Mom showed the house, they've made an offer in her price range. No fixing up.

Keep your fingers crossed. If everything goes well with the offer then I'll be out of the house by the end of July.

Wee hah! :-)

The truck has been packed since about 1pm. Full up. The entire sum of Mom's possessions minus the house and the car. And the car is going with her.

Mom only had a few big crying jags. I held her through the big one.

Now we nap, and then we hit the road for 9-12 hours of fun drivin'!

Pictures and video are coming...

The Penske truck has been picked up, and is now outside.

The guys who will unload Mom's life into the truck, they'll be here in an hour.

Here we go...

In case you hadn't heard yet, here's the news ( Read more... )

I love making up words, don't you?

Anyway, unless something really weird happened this morning, Mom met with some house-selling people (realtor, I think) and so 2217 Mckean Street is officially on the market ( Read more... )