So . . . Tired
Moving furniture. Getting kids into own rooms. Getting grownups into new room. Major project. How major? I actually agreed to get rid of books. It’s the rare day where we have significantly fewer books in the house than the day before. Exhausted. Too tired to give you the “moral reason vs. animal rights” cheat codes I found on the internet. (See if you can spot a couple yourself.)
So, Mighty God King is a fun nerdblog to spend an evening with instead. If that doesn’t sound promising enough, I should mention that it’s a Canadian nerdblog. With many real conversations reprinted verbatim. Now I really need to tell you that it’s better than it sounds! It’s got Nuklon fighting a jeep! Dude. It’s got vampires.
Back over the weekend. Though, honestly, there’s still a lot of crap to move.
Comment by Karen —
August 24, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
My husband and I moved five times in five years, all within the same city. Nothing that doesn’t involve anesthesia and stitches is as bad, and they don’t give you opiates when you move.
Oh, and thanks for the Nuklon link. I at one time had almost all the Infinity Inc. comics, especially the pre-Crisis ones where Fury was the daughter of Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman. If I recall correctly, Nuklon had a major crush on her.
Comment by Michael —
August 24, 2007 @ 10:34 pm
MGK is great. A friend (and former Champions GM) of ours turned me on to him via “Improved Archie”, which got him booted from LJ.
How’d you run across him?
Comment by Thoreau —
August 24, 2007 @ 11:03 pm
I didn’t even realize you were moving. I’m obviously oblivious.
You have my sympathy. The movers come to my place on Wednesday.
Comment by Avram —
August 25, 2007 @ 12:04 am
I actually agreed to get rid of books.
Liberating, though, isn’t it?
Y’know the old saying about being owned by one’s possessions? I knew what it meant the day I dragged an 8-foot-long, 3-foot-high pile of books out to the curb and left them there for recycling to pick up.
Comment by Ishikawa —
August 25, 2007 @ 9:23 am
After moving 7 times in 10 yrs (6 of those cross country) those empty spaces that are created by getting rid of old stuff, fill back up rather quickly with new stuff.
Comment by Jim Henley —
August 25, 2007 @ 9:30 am
Avram: Yeah, I’m seeing it. We also dumped an easy chair and a sofa bed. The sofa bed was particularly liberating – standing in front of its new bedroom trying to figure out how or whether it can fit in and then looking at each other and saying, “Or we could take it to the curb.” Because, in truth, we never liked it anyway.
Thoreau: We aren’t moving houses. We’re moving the two kids from one room to two, which means consolidating the office and the grownup bedroom into one room too. So the entire upstairs of a three-level split is in transition. And as part of this, we had the carpet cleaned.
Michael: Found MGK in my referrer logs, via a link to the Giuliani piece.