status update

[unicornduke]

tomorrow is my last working day of work, I'm taking thursday and friday off to use up my vacation time. I'm teaching class tonight. tomorrow will consist of getting rid of all the work stuff here at the house and dropping off keys, travel cards and electronics

Today, my boss and local coworkers took me out to lunch and the food was delicious (mexican at a place I've never been before) and it was a lovely time. My boss also gave me a cake, hilariously stuck in the pan, so I'm prying it out and giving the pan to my coworker tomorrow to get back to her. One of the folks down south that I'm handing tasks over to only just started asking me questions about one of the tasks and I just can't bring myself to care much. I suspect those tasks will get dropped as soon as her boss deems them too busy, he's a jerk. ~not my problem~

I feel like I'm 98% packed, which is alarming and good. After I finish typing this up, I'm going to start packing the last electronics box, which is my extra monitor, extension cords, power strips, that sort of thing. I did some staging work this morning and I'll do more this afternoon. That's mostly shuffling things into coherent piles to be picked up when the time comes. I keep waffling between "oh there's plenty of room if I pack everything into the vehicles well" and "oh my god why do I own so much stuff and it'll never all fit"

it doesn't matter! I'm coming back in april for a doctors appointment and can get anything else left then.

I'm slightly irritated about a thing, not too much because I can see the reasoning behind the decision. We helped clean F's mom's garage out of F's dad's stuff, so hand tools and some other things since we would use them and her mom wanted them gone. In the two years or so since this, F has never once used any of these tools, mostly woodworking stuff. I checked with F before I started packing up the shed if she wanted them, expecting her to say no, she's never used them. But she said she wanted to keep everything. On one hand, they are her father's tools. On the other, she's never used them and probably never will and she's got a stuff problem. As far as I know, none of it is even sentimental stuff. Whatever. Most of it I can pick up at an estate sale at some point, but like, come on. Multiple things she didn't even know we had she still wants to keep.

The weather is not looking favorable for the weekend, but right now we're hovering at 50% chance of rain saturday, so that's the day instead of sunday with 80% chance of rain. Tarps. Tarps are good. When I get down there, I'm leaning towards shoving the trailer and truck in the barn and unloading everything after the rain on monday. I haven't decided if I'm going down and back on friday, load and leave saturday or go down friday, back, load and leave saturday. depends on if my dad comes I guess.

I thought I had been eating down the stuff in the freezer. Not even close. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that, but hopefully I can get the little freezer down there and running before stuff defrosts too much. I can use the church freezers as well. I did find calzones in the freezer which I've been eating.

I still need to get my 50ft ethernet cable out of its annoying configuration through the basement. arg

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[unicornduke]

probably not, a lot of what I have in the freezer is gluten free stuff, fruit and processed veg plus meat. She'd probably only want the meat and I also want the meat. I just think she can't bear to have anything leave her possession if it was her dad's, even if she never uses it. She has a stuff problem, the upstairs is a disaster zone that is super not my problem. 2/3 of my stuff fits in the small freezer of mine and I'll make it a goal to use some of it when I get down to my parents. Plus there are a few things I can toss.