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FUCK YES, DUDE!

Oh hell yes!

[side_show]

I am never leaving the wilds of my Canadian adventure.

But I am glad for you linnea.

[jaydub]

Sure, but you were born to it.  Out of curiousity, s_s, you've been to Indonesia, but have you been here?  Other than, say, Buffalo, or Grand Forks (in case you want to splurge on American brand label medications, perhaps).

[theinevitable]

s_s-- have you ever been to the "underground city" in Montreal? That shit sounds awesome, even though I'm sure it isn't actually that cool.

[AugustWest]

You should come to the Kentucky Derby, for the sake of inter-thread self-references if nothing else. 

Bad Craziness/hyphens!

[Nabubrush]

You should come to the Kentucky Derby, for the sake of inter-thread self-references if nothing else. 

Bad Craziness/hyphens!

Come on by and we'll get us a couple of jars of ether! Road trip!

[linnea]

I got two boxes packed today, and I don't even have all my Fire/EMS/Search and Rescue books packed yet. I am trying to spread them around through boxes because each book is about a thousand pages and heavy as a cinder block. However, I also must make sure to reserve enough of my wardrobe to act as cushioning material for when I package the delicate stuff: PS2, Xbox, Computer and monitor, telly. It's a tightrope, I tell you.

One of my friends from the BBS days (300 baud...remember that?) is going to let me stay with him for "a few months". He lives 5.4 miles from the office, so even if I have to walk or take the bus for a few months it won't be that bad. When I get to Denver i'm taking him out for beers and extracting an agreement in blood of how much I will owe him and EXACTLY how many days I am allowed to stay there. I want no bad blood to be stirred up, nor do I want him to feel like he's being taken advantage of.

The move up here was craaaaazy...and my employer was reimbursing me for it all...this time I'm footing the bill 100%. This time is going to be easier (hopefully) because I've done it all before. Talk about a pain in the ass. Moving your stuff 4,000 miles is way more complex than you would think. I have to get all my shit boxed and then shrinkwrapped into pallets, then they will be loaded into a container and put on a big-ass ship to be sent down here. When they hit Tacoma, another dude with a freight forwarding company has to pick them up and put them on a truck to Denver. 2 pallets worth of shit (less than 1,000 pounds) will run me at least $1,200. I think that I've accumulated more than that, so I might be paying more. Whatever... it's cheaper than re-buying everything when I get down there.

Wish me luck and plenty of sedatives. It's gonna feel so good to be back home.

Also...apparently my town has a one female in, one female out policy (we have 4 men to every female over 18 years of age). We got a new curator for our museum, so she's taking my place. I'm pushing my landlord to give her my apartment when I'm gone. Housing here is a nightmare. I'm also going to sell her my truck. It sucks because I could probably get WAY more money if I sold it on the free market...but she is also 27 like me and penniless and I want to help her out. Hopefully it will repay some karma to the awesome folks who helped me out when I first moved into town. You get what you give.

[Lister]

If suddenly your whole life seems better as the result of a decision you come to in a moment, it usually was one that was brewing in your mind for a long time.  I've had that happen.

Check prices very carefully on your monitor and television (assuming they're tubes).  They're heavy, fragile, and in an incredibly competitive, dying market.  If I move cross-country again I'm not moving my 27" tube.  I'll get a new TV somewhere, and either get a way better one for the same price I paid or the same quality for a quarter of the price.  You can almost certainly get a used CRT in Denver for less than it would cost to move yours.

Craigslist is a friend of people who are moving.  And also horny 50 year olds, but they usually don't have monitors to sell for cheap.

[side_show]

Re: Travels in the US - I've had several weekend road trips to parts of North Dakota for shopping(boring), a hellish why-don't-you-just-get-divorced-already road trip to South Dakota with my parents to see Mount Rushmore (why?), and the equivlent of about a day's worth of stop over in LA and Minneapolis combined.  No real touristy trips though.  Since reaching adulthood I've never had a single desire to travel in the States.  Nothing in the US has ever been on my "must see" list other than New Orleans, and that's off the list for a while.  I'm just not interested - if I'm traveling it's either other parts of Canada or somewhere far, far away that I'm interested in.  I'd like to go back to Europe.  Also India.

Re: Underground cities - We were planning a trip to Montreal for this summer that has had to be postponed until next year due to financial reasons, however Winnipeg has a series of underground tunnels including a couple subterranean malls, and mostly they are boring.  Basically I wanted to go to Montreal for the poutine, and old Montreal, and maybe the Just for Laughs festival.

Re: Moving/Packing - with the amount of times I've moved, I really should have some sage advice for you.  But no.  I suppose the best advice is to have a garage sale/give away/donate as much as you can.  Moving is the best time to purge.

[linnea]

If suddenly your whole life seems better as the result of a decision you come to in a moment, it usually was one that was brewing in your mind for a long time.  I've had that happen.

Check prices very carefully on your monitor and television (assuming they're tubes).  They're heavy, fragile, and in an incredibly competitive, dying market.  If I move cross-country again I'm not moving my 27" tube.  I'll get a new TV somewhere, and either get a way better one for the same price I paid or the same quality for a quarter of the price.  You can almost certainly get a used CRT in Denver for less than it would cost to move yours.

Craigslist is a friend of people who are moving.  And also horny 50 year olds, but they usually don't have monitors to sell for cheap.

I just found out that I'm going to be reimbursed by my employer for some of the expenses since they paid to move me up here. Fuck yeah! I'm packing absolutely everything possible since it'll be on their dime. Now I've gotta find a box big enough for my snowboard. I'm going to get some saran wrap and wrap up my game systems, telly, and monitor in that, then package them as carefully as i can.

My father offered to buy me a laptop when I get down there (so that I can do CADD)...but I'm not going to throw out the $20 system that I have now (he has said a lot of shit that he had no intention of following through with - i'm hoping that he won't be a dick about this). That's right...twenty bucks. I got it at auction. It's a piece of shit, but it's better than nothing.

I already have an impressive amount of shit boxed up and ready to rock.

[CortJstr]

unsalted popcorn is every mover's best friend

[jough]

I'd leave the big stuff behind.  Try to do an ROI analysis on your stuff - if it costs more or the same to move as to buy new, then buy new. 

Of course, this is coming from a guy who moved without any furniture, and who shipped his computer and some books and DVDs and stuff ahead of himself, and then just flew here with nothing else but clothes.  If you can live like a fratboy for a couple of months, I highly recommend it.

Of course, my place still looks like I just moved in, and I've been here for almost seven months now.

[theinevitable]

all this talk is getting me all hot and bothered about moving into my new room in August. New posters! 2 rooms to arrange (common room and my room)! The whole room to myself! Will I put the bed up high, or go for comfort with it down low? How small will the room be? Will I have room to get a shitty easy chair or something? SO EXCITING.

[AugustWest]

all this talk is getting me all hot and bothered about moving into my new room in August. New posters! 2 rooms to arrange (common room and my room)! The whole room to myself! Will I put the bed up high, or go for comfort with it down low? How small will the room be? Will I have room to get a shitty easy chair or something? SO EXCITING.

What dorm is it?  It's not J Dorm (Shandeling) is it?  That's where I was sophomore year.

I could tell you some stories...

[theinevitable]

shit, boy! That's right behind where i lived this year!

But, no. I am living in Wheeler. Which is... as far southwest as you can get on the south 40-- along the south border.

[linnea]

So I'm flying out to Denver for my pa's wedding. I'm in Anchorage right now at the airport. I am on Flickr and looking at photos of my sweet kitties and I MISS THEM ALREADY. I hate going on vacation because then I'm away from them and it's damn near impossible to sleep. Sadface.

Anyway... I hate bush flights. I was hanging out with a bunch of my friends at the airport bar. We have a miniscule airport, but they have a PA system. They never called my flight. Finally... I went up and asked if they were going to board the flight yet. "You're the last passenger to board, ma'am." is what they told me.

I have never been so embarrassed in my entire life. I FELT AWFUL. I ran out to the plane and they took my carryon and I had to wait out the entire flight with nary an iPod, book, or magazine. I sat there for the entire 3-hour flight and felt bad and pretty much the only thing I could think about is that I made everyone wait. Why didn't they throw a brick at me or something???