I am in a weird spot, moving-wise. If I sell off the furniture, I am very close to being able to move with just the space in the back of my Ford Escape. That would be ideal, but I may not achieve that. But, why pay U-Haul about $1,600 to move a shipping crate from here to Chico when it's only about a third full? I'm like a guy trying to go null in Spades but I might not make it.
I have too many guitars. This is annoying because I only really want two of them. Another one of them is my son's, and one of them I intend to give to my son, and one of them is just a broken guitar which I fear is worth too much to either throw, or give, away. Oh, and one of them is the first good guitar I ever bought, which I've had since 1972 or something, and while it's not that good, it does OK, and it has a lot of sentimental value, even though I almost never play it. So, OK, I want three of them. Two "players" as we musicians say, which is sort of a sly admission that some of the guitars we own are there just because you can fall into the collector mode, like a miser who hoards dollars without really intending to spend them.
Guitars in their cases are amazingly cumbersome and much bigger than you think they should be. Two guitars can sort of eat up a closet floor, for example, and you're lucky if you can fit them in a car trunk. This is problematic. Plus, you don't really want to ship favorite guitars in a U-Haul shipping crate. I wonder if I could mail them to myself. I don't know. Dammit.
I went on a date yesterday. That was kind of weird, even though it was only kind of a date. Dating is expensive. With all the changes in societal norms and relationships between the sexes, it seems like dating is somehow wrong, now. At least, dating in the sense that we used the term "back in the day." This deserves some thought, but I've got too much going on right now.
Dating is great if it's with the right person. It's weird though that that bears mentioning.
ReplyDeleteNot weird. It just reflects the fact that dating has a sort of artificial aspect to it--the following of form with the relationship to the other person almost secondary. Unless it's the right person.
ReplyDeleteHmm. What the hell do I know.
Oh god, dating. Can’t we talk about football or spaceships?
ReplyDeleteI never was much of a Kansas City Chiefs fan, and I guess when I move to Chico I will be even less of one. I'm a fan of spaceships, though. When I was a little kid, my friend and I would sit in his dad's '57 Chevy (Brand new) and it was so futuristic, we'd pretend it was a spaceship. So I bought this brand new Ford Escape SUV last month, and it REALLY seems like my own little spaceship. I think it even has an asteroid proximity alarm!
ReplyDeleteMoving sucks. Obvious comment, but one that I felt the need to say. I understand your dilemma but offer no advice. Whatever you decide to do about the furniture will be right & wrong at the same time. Shrodinger's move, I guess.
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