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12 years ago
This isn't something that just started, it's something that's been going on for a few weeks now.
As some few of you may know, my contract at my current company is up in April. While I have signed on for another six months, I also requested and received two and a half months off w/o pay. I'm going to use this opportunity to go home and search for a job because I'd really rather not come back here. I miss my friends. I miss my godkids. I haven't seen either of my parents in what, three years? Haven't seen my dad in five. Travel is fun, but it's long past time I went home for a while.
As for jobs I've got a few prospects, one of them solid and very promising, but one never knows with these things and actually, I didn't want to write this journal about that.
I wanted to write about packing.
I've done probably more than my fair share of packing over the years, but this time it's a bit different because I've been here and slowly accruing crap for the past two years. I knew that it'd take a while to pack properly if I didn't want to just give it all up (and I've done THAT before too, but that's for another time) and having spent the past two weeks packing and shipping and packing and shipping... ugh. I used to pride myself on packing light. What the hell happened here? How did I get so much CRAP, and why am I bothering to keep it?
Well some is nostalgia and some is stuff I've found I quite like and use often. Some is just the fact that I buy too many fcking cigars and there's no way I could smoke them all before going home. 3 humidors is probably a bit much. That Keurig is coming with me come hell or high water. Why would I leave these dvd's? I bought em, I'll keep em. How on EARTH did I get so many sata ribbons, usb, camera wire, SPEAKER CABLE? how many sets of headphones do I fcking need and where have THOSE been for the past year and a half?!
And so on.
Half or more of my crap is now state bound and this place is only JUST starting to look like something's amiss. All the same stuff that's been floating around the room for the past year is still floating around the room (albeit recently moved) but the drawers are empty, the closets bare.
I'm absolutely dreading the dismantlement of my computer system. I'm running a hybrid air and water cooled system (I wanted to see if there was a performance gain through watercooling. Thinking seriously about upgrading the system when I put it back together to be completely watercooled not because the performance is that much better, but because it's that much quieter, but we'll see.) and taking it apart without making a mess will be a fun science project. That's next week though, when I get within the seven day window for shipping out of this dump. Even then I'm not looking forward to living through a netbook for a week.
Here I am so looking forward to getting home and then what... oh joy. I get to go looking for a house. >.<
This is why I stayed here when my contract was up LAST year... not because I liked it, but because I was too lazy to do all this packing.
As some few of you may know, my contract at my current company is up in April. While I have signed on for another six months, I also requested and received two and a half months off w/o pay. I'm going to use this opportunity to go home and search for a job because I'd really rather not come back here. I miss my friends. I miss my godkids. I haven't seen either of my parents in what, three years? Haven't seen my dad in five. Travel is fun, but it's long past time I went home for a while.
As for jobs I've got a few prospects, one of them solid and very promising, but one never knows with these things and actually, I didn't want to write this journal about that.
I wanted to write about packing.
I've done probably more than my fair share of packing over the years, but this time it's a bit different because I've been here and slowly accruing crap for the past two years. I knew that it'd take a while to pack properly if I didn't want to just give it all up (and I've done THAT before too, but that's for another time) and having spent the past two weeks packing and shipping and packing and shipping... ugh. I used to pride myself on packing light. What the hell happened here? How did I get so much CRAP, and why am I bothering to keep it?
Well some is nostalgia and some is stuff I've found I quite like and use often. Some is just the fact that I buy too many fcking cigars and there's no way I could smoke them all before going home. 3 humidors is probably a bit much. That Keurig is coming with me come hell or high water. Why would I leave these dvd's? I bought em, I'll keep em. How on EARTH did I get so many sata ribbons, usb, camera wire, SPEAKER CABLE? how many sets of headphones do I fcking need and where have THOSE been for the past year and a half?!
And so on.
Half or more of my crap is now state bound and this place is only JUST starting to look like something's amiss. All the same stuff that's been floating around the room for the past year is still floating around the room (albeit recently moved) but the drawers are empty, the closets bare.
I'm absolutely dreading the dismantlement of my computer system. I'm running a hybrid air and water cooled system (I wanted to see if there was a performance gain through watercooling. Thinking seriously about upgrading the system when I put it back together to be completely watercooled not because the performance is that much better, but because it's that much quieter, but we'll see.) and taking it apart without making a mess will be a fun science project. That's next week though, when I get within the seven day window for shipping out of this dump. Even then I'm not looking forward to living through a netbook for a week.
Here I am so looking forward to getting home and then what... oh joy. I get to go looking for a house. >.<
This is why I stayed here when my contract was up LAST year... not because I liked it, but because I was too lazy to do all this packing.
God, even just living in a college dorm I accumulated so much crap that I ended up throwing a ton of it out when I realized I didn't even NEED it, and I didn't even live there full time!