This is a very personal post about very personal things. If you can find a lesson in my example to benefit you, then so much the better.
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Well, it took the lads from Two Guys and a Truck (not to be confused with Two Men and a Truck, which isn't around here) three and a half hours -including travel time- to empty out my storage locker and move it all into the apartment. Holy crap, I have a lot of stuff...and some of it is going to the dumpster, since it's broken. So far I've resigned ( Read more... )

Did my taxes online again this year, forking out $80 to Intuit since I had to file in Minnesota and Virginia this year. Governator Junior's lads at MN Revenue clipped me for the last time, claiming ~$400 in additional taxes (mostly out of the $15K I took out of the Cardboard Box Fund to finance my move out here) but I made out OK with the Feds and ( Read more... )

Got back from shopping and promptly ate dinner, which means it was too late to get my laundry through the wash and dry cycles before it was time to leave for what is now home...or where I'm hanging my notional helmet for now, at any rate. I have all the essentials here thanks to a late-night stop by Shoppers Food Warehouse, though I still need to ( Read more... )

Up until 0300 chatting with a fellow Goon from Calgary who I used to fly with a lot last year, which meant I wasn't up until 1100. Showered, went online with guys from Pi Squad for an op, and there went the afternoon. Niece was doing laundry anyway so I wouldn't have gotten that done ( Read more... )

I guess I'm officially back on the home turf now. Carlos woke up much earlier than I did, as he usually does and went off to breakfast while I slept in for another couple of hours. (It was a very good dream.) I decided to skip breakfast - the buffet was okay, but $13 is a little stiff for something not noticeably better than the breakfast at the ( Read more... )

( Boring description of largely uneventful drive follows )

You know, from previous experience in these damned hills I should have realized that the estimate of three hours to get from Wheeling to the Canaan Valley Resort was hopelessly optimistic. Once I got off Interstate 68 and headed south to find US-219, it was alll 35 mph uphill and 60 mph downhills...and let's face it, the Sportage isn't really ( Read more... )

Slept well enough last night, and now I need to get everything packed up and out of here before I head down to the Waffle House and explore the rest of the museum. Carlos wants me to join him at a resort in West Virginia, and while it looks nice it would be 8 or 9 by the time I got there. On the other hand, Wheeling is only 3 hours away, which ( Read more... )

Well, my distribution check finally posted to my account, a day late thanks to a server crash at the Evil Banking Neighbor, and I can deal with various bills that are long overdue. Like my taxes. I was also amused to see that a check I wrote last year for Arcana (presumably for this year's membership) was deposited today. Less amusing was that my ( Read more... )