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Logistics
It was worse moving from Harbor to Santa Rosa.
Then, we had to clean out a 4000-square-foot mostly-but-not-entirely-empty home and a stuffed-to-the-gills 1300-square-foot medical office. We had two cats, two ferrets, two degus, nine poison dart frogs, and about 30 or 40 tarantulas. We were moving to three locations: our rental home, a medical office, and a storage facility.
Now — lucky us! We only have to move from two locations (a home and a storage facility) to two locations (a home and an office). There’s a whole lot less to move to the office, too: no heavy exam chair, no operating microscope (we donated both to Kaiser), no autoclave. I got rid of a lot of junk in the last few weeks. Our degus and dart frogs are gone to the great beyond, and a lot of the male tarantulas have died a natural death, too. We’re down to less than 20 tarantulas.
But this is still a pain in the ass, particularly since we want to move a minimal amount of stuff down to a furnished apartment in B-field (temporary housing until we close escrow). We have a Camry and a Miata. So, as far as storage space for moving is concerned, we have a Camry. Into the Camry goes a carrier for the ferrets, a carrier for the cats, all the tarantulas (each in separate sta-in-pet enclosures), our luggage, our printer/fax machine, assorted files, assorted backpacks with laptops and other goodies we can’t live without, and last but not least, a desktop computer.
Yeah, I don’t see it happening, either . . . not unless the Miata’s trunk turns out to be a lot larger than I’m thinking it is.
Karen and I just did a count: this will be our 12th move together as a couple. Twelve moves in 25 years of marriage just doesn’t seem fair. Whatever happened to settling down?
D.
Moving would be a breeze if it wasn’t for the STUFF we all accumulate. I can’t even stand my own stamps anymore (almost).
Come on – you can fit a laptop (without its case) in the Miata trunk. That’s got to help.
I fit two small file boxes into the Miata’s trunk. No room for much else.