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Moving day gets a bit more real
Eventually I'll probably post the rest of the entries about our recent vacation but I thought an entry about me and my life might be in order. No doubt in future years I will enjoy reading back through it.
As the title of the entry states moving day has gotten a bit more real. Not that I ever doubted it would happen. Heck, we already own the house we're going to move to and this past twelve months I've spent more time there in Mississippi than I have in Florida.
Last night Connie made the reservation to have a POD delivered the day after Christmas. I've been moving one pick-up load at a time for the past year and the result is a house in Mississippi that is liveable and capable of having guests visit. As a matter of fact we've already had friends from Orlando visit and just recently Connie's mom spent a week with us. The good news there is that we got the "Mom seal of approval". She thinks the house there is perfect for us...and she's right.
One kind of amazing thing is that both houses are now perfectly liveable and we only bought one piece of furniture for the house there, a futon for the living room. There are some things here that would be difficult to move in the pickup and that are kind of bulky. Those items will be the items moved in the POD. It's cheaper than a mover and should work just as well. Loading and unloading is not a problem, it's the transportation that I wanted taken care of. It appears that the price of a POD is going to be the same as, or probably lower than, a U-Haul if you figure in gas. Also come January when the POD goes so do both cars. Connie will be following along and Caylith goes then too. It should be an interesting trip. The plan is she will ride in the truck with Connie with food and water and her litter box behind the truck's seat. We'll break the trip up as I've been doing anyway by stopping for the night in Biloxi. That makes for a 9 hour drive one day and a 5 hour drive the next. Beats a 14 hour one day drive all to hell.
When we moved from the house in Orlando that Lee is now renting from us (long story and in my opinion a failed experiment) to the one we're living in now which is my Mom's old house we tried hard to take only things we really needed or wanted very badly. We were partially successful. Now we need to do that again with the move to Mississippi. Hopefully we will not over stuff that house. Time will tell on that one but I have my fingers crossed.
Right now my life is in a bit of upheaval. Poker has been going horribly, bad enough that I've played only very sporadically for over a month now. I'm actually finding myself dreading when I feel I should play. Hopefully that will change. Connie, who knows enough about it and is good enough to probably be able to judge, says it appears to just be bad luck. Luck IS a large part of it of course but to this point I'd managed to always be able to apply enough skill to still make at least a LITTLE money even in bad luck times. Not so lately. I've taken some horrible losses and my bankroll is looking very anemic. Of course in part that is because I've had to spend out of it to get things for the MS house. Basically though I've had to scale back poker and am scrambling to fill the void with other things.
I'm trying hard to NOT make feeling sorry for myself one of them but that doesn't always work. I'm starting gardening again in MS and that will be nice. I have lots of plans on that score and it will be nice to get back to it. We eat a lot of fresh fruits and veggies and growing my own will really help out a lot and be very satisfying. I used to do pretty good when we lived in Cocoa and gave it up after moving to Orlando and a house with a homeowners association that was not veggie garden friendly (hell they weren't friendly or neighborly at ALL...unless of course you were part of the in crowd). That won't be a problem in Mississippi. There are plenty of gardens around our new neighborhood.
I'm also doing more woodworking of various sorts. Some of that is practical, bookshelves and so on, and some will be fun and/or decorative. As long as it keeps my mind off watching my poker game crash and burn it will be good. Of course I have hopes that poker will pick up but I'm a bit afraid that it's a fundamental shift. Luck is going to be too much a part of it as I think skill is equalizing. For many reasons I won't go into I think the really bad players are finally getting out. I can hold my own against good players the problem is that if that is all there is then the game is unprofitable if you play in a casino because of the casino's rake of each pot.
Time will tell on that. If I seem quieter than usual it's because I really have not felt like talking or writing much. I don't have anything I really WANT to talk about. I did think it was time for an entry about my life though for myself in later years if nothing else. If anybody is out there reading and interested then that's just a bonus. If you're out there I hope you're having a grand life. (lol inside joke with the "Grand life" thing...you have to live in or near Tunica to get it)
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Hope you have a Grand Day. things will get better.
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I don't get the Grand Life joke, but I think I have had it since I retired thirteen years ago. Now if I could only get thirty more yards on my drives I would be happy, Bill
7/26/08 2:50 AM