Monday, May 25, 2009

Epiricism

I've had a long day. Not only did I spend a tank of gas and drove to Pittsburgh but the neighbors came and took away most of the furniture. The dining room table and chairs, the armoire, the buffet thingie, the desk thingie, the bed and mattresses, plus a lot of assorted stuff including a couple of frame pictures. The downstairs area is pretty empty. They wanted to take the leather recliners but everyone seems to want those. I'm not sure if they'll fit in the U-haul but we'll see. They were also nice enough to help me empty my NEW sofa bed to the garage. Yes, I stood in line in Pittsburgh and was one of the lucky ones to get a $150 sofa bed.

The drive to Pittsburgh was fair uneventful. I hadn't thought about the toll roads and I really didn't think that it would cost me a tank of petrol. Oh well.

So here's what I'm taking:
-Bed (I got it at IKEA a few years ago and no-one likes it but me)
-Desk (I got this at World Market)
-Office chair
-2 leather recliners (Got this last December)
-2 metal racks (One is in the pantry and one is in the dining room)
-Tons of boxes of books, cds, misc.
-Boxes of clothes, towels and blankets (ok, maybe they're more like comforters)
-Boxes of cooking/kitchen stuff.
-Stools (2)
-Laptop
-Misc. papers/checkbooks/bills/stamps
-2 dogs
-2 cats
-Brand new sofa bed(big-ass box and 2 cushion thingies that look like burritos)

I'm hoping that all this crap will fit inside the moving truck. I still need to get a couple of kitty carriers and a litter box. I made these litter boxes by taking a really, really sharp knife and attacking a plastic tote.

I'm not taking these:
-Fridge with ice maker
-Microwave
-Washer
-Dryer
-Elliptical machine in the basement (I didn't even know it was down there)
-Exercise bike in the basement (Not sure why I kept it and I've always disliked it)

I'm debating whether I should take the frankenputer (desktop) that's upstairs. It works and has plenty of disk space but I don't really need it. I might take it only to put linux on it or maybe Windows server. It's a low priority thing.

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  1. FM371May 26, 2009 at 5:58 AM

    I like the couch, d. You know, I always felt like the lone schmuck who wasn't into any real estate back in the salad days. Now, I'm just glad I don't have the burden. Things will work out, d.

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  2. daltwisneyMay 28, 2009 at 5:13 PM

    I felt the same way about the dot com boom. Five minutes on University Avenue in Palo Alto back in 1998 told me all I need to know about hype and greedy people. At least that debacle lasted 2 seconds and didn't take the global economy. I still have to "assemble" the sofa bed from it's packed-in burrito state.

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