Greensboro I'm a coming

Well I hope that you all had a very good Christmas holiday. Mine was very good. Good times with my grandmother and her friends. Way too much food, as usual. She is very sad I am going to Greensboro. But she understands I need to do what I have to do.

So I fly up this afternoon, get my car and hotel and get an idea of the area. If I have time I am going to go by the store and visit them. If not today I will go there tomorrow morning. Since none of us have ever met each other it might be a good idea. One of the ladies who works there did work for Law Enforcement Supply when I was there, however she worked in the Panama City office so at least we know each other through talking on the phone. Once I get that out of the way I while begin looking at apartments. I have a list I am bringing with me. I hope the first place I look at turns out as decent as it seems from what I have seen on the web. If it is then I am going to take that place and be done with the whole thing. That way I can get the utilities and all set up and have the rest of the time to get my bearings around Greensboro. Since I am one of those people who am pretty damm good about directions and figuring streets out I should know where things are pretty quickly. It should leave me time to take some pictures of the area. So maybe I can sneak in a little roadtrip and see what my photography future has in store for me. This whole area is much more suited to my style of photography as you would expect.

I am going to run. Have some loose end to tie up this morning. Have a great week.

Merry Christmas Happy Christmas War is Over

Over the blacktop and through the tollgates to grama's house I go. The Gps knows the way I go today through no white drifted snow.

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas. Eat some good food, enjoy the time with family, friends and anyone else you chose. Hope you all receive some peace and harmony on Christmas day. The pagans would want it this way.

Maybe one day the leaders of the world will embrace this song as the rest of the world does. We can all hope and pray in our own way.

Goodbye dust collectors

Well I sold most of my "collectibles" and some furniture yesterday for $500.00. It was what I expected, but less than I hoped it would be. I never could have received that much at a yard sale unless I put many hours of work into getting it all ready and then doing all the right advertising to get as many people as possible. The guys will be here shortly to take all the stuff away. After all of that is gone then I can start to pack. First clean and then pack. Everything will getting a good cleaning, dusting and so on before it gets wrapped and pack. There will not be a whole bunch for the movers to take with them. Then I can start to use the "Florida" room as thee main room to store everything. I also sold $100 worth of some other items the other day and have sold about $350.00 worth of goods on Ebay. So at least I have a little bit of cash.

Gotta run for now the guys are here to clean out the goods.

Merry Christmas from the Family Robert Earl Keene

This is one of the best non traditional Christmas songs there is. In fact it may be my favorite. Hope you enjoy this. Robert is great and if you have not heard of him you need to check him out. You know there are many families out there that have a day just like this.

Turn the Page

Tammy, thanks for helping me figure out what to post today. This is great song. I love both versions. Bob's is classic of course and I love the gritty feel of the Metallica version.

So far my version of the GAN, Great American Novel, has been pretty cool.

I put the final touches on all the things I am going to sell. It will be very easy for the guy to look at it all and give me a price.

Yesterday I replanted my lemon balm into a much bigger pot. It now has room to explode with new growth. My friends from Fort Myers came up yesterday and we did some messing around in the afternoon. Then we went to Sam Seltzers Steakhouse for dinner.
We all ended up getting there bbq rib all you can eat special. I ended up getting all their ribs when we had seconds. I have lots of ribs in the fridge. Thank you.
When we came back here we sat outside and I stoked up a nice big fire in my chimnea.
We just sat around and bullshitted until they decided it was time to get back to their hotel. It was a good day.

Today I need to call and confirm everything with the estate guy and then I am free. I think I will take a little trip to Tarpon Springs one last time and then head down to the usual Sunday football bar for the last time. I also need to head to the post office and mail some Ebay items.

Have a great Sunday and get in the holiday spirit.

Sorting the junk

Well I have pretty much finished sorting out EVERYTHING I have. The only thing that is left is my clothing. I might as well go through that and get rid off what does not fit anymore. I usually do that on a regular basis anyway how. Its not like I shop for clothing a whole bunch anyhow.

There is a whole lot for the estate guy to buy. I hope I get something close to a decent price for it. After all that is gone then I am going to start packing. That will be fun. Actually that should go fairly quick. I hope.

I am taking the rest of the day off from the moving process except for doing laundry. I am going to wash all my blankets, sheets, towels and then move to the clothing I am taking. That way it is all clean and fresh when I move into my new place. It is all clean now. However since some of that sits in the closet for so long I might as well freshen it up before I move.

Have a customer from the old job stopping by today. He is actually a friend now. It ended up that we actually grew up in the same area of Ct. as kids. We are going to go have a few beers and maybe some wings at Hooters. Seems a good way to say goodbye until he gets a chance to come north for a visit.

Enjoy your day in your lovely weather.

Repent from having too much crap

Repent from owning too many things.

So I am into sorting all my "stuff" and all I have too say is #$%^$#. Too much. I found a guy yesterday who has a junk shop/thrift store who buys out estates. I talked with him for a bit and he is going to come over Monday and give me a price for all the items I am not going to take with me. I'll never get what it is worth and I will get more than I would at a yard sale. Believe me when I say that not much is going. I will still be more than enough for one person.

I have always dreaded this day. I knew at some point I would have to clean out. Oh well that is life.

Off to more purging.

Lookout Greensboro, The Pez is coming

For good or bad, better or worse, and all other things that apply in this situation I am making the plunge and moving to Greensboro, NC. The exact date is still to be determined but in the first or second week of January I will be living in North Carolina. It looks like I will head up on the 28th and head back on New Years eve. Those couple days will be spent getting a place to live. I hope that is enough time to accomplish everything. If that goes well I guess I will move up sometime the following week.

So that means I have a whole ton of things to do the next few weeks around here. I have plenty to pack and plenty to throw in the trash and what I do not trash or pack is going to get sold. There are a few places near my house that will come in and buy whatever you have that you are getting rid of. I doubt you get a whole bunch for those items but any cash will help at this point. The less I have to move the better off I am and I suspect it will also cost a little less.

This is going to be a massive change for me. I have lived in Tampa longer than I have lived in any other town in my life and the house I live in now is the second longest I have lived in any place outside of the house I grew up in. So it will all be a bit overwhelming for a few weeks.

One of the big advantages is I will moving closer to Bluefield, Asheville and Ken's house. :)
It will be good for my photography. This area is much more rich with the things that I like to photograph. It should be a little cheaper than Tampa. Not much, but any amount helps.

So I am happy, glad, scared, nervous, excited, and so on......................................

That is enough for this morning. My brain is swimming with chaos.

Rock n Roll Breakfast

Here are two of the greatest live performances of all time in my humble opinion.
Queen was such a killer band. They were so different than any thing else that was out there in the world of rock.

The Queen song was for the Live Aid performance in 1985. All you have to do is watch and you will know how damm good this is. Perfection.

The George Michael song where he is singing with Queen at the Freddie Mercury tribute is amazing. He does such a fantastic job here. I do not think there is anyone better would could sing and sound so much like Freddie.

Weekend Review

Saturday in an attempt to save money I did nothing except take pictures of items that I am going to put on Ebay today and tomorrow. I did however locate some very good friends on Facebook. When I was a kid a family from Vietnam moved into a house next to my grandparents, who lived the next street over from me. There were five kids all around the same age as myself. During junior high school and high school I practically lived at their house. Ahn, the middle son was the same age as me and we hung out all the time. Their house was like my second home. There many many crazy things that happened at that house and for the most part his parents let us get away with whatever we did. One time we caught a squirrel in a live trap and we brought the trap into the house. Well Ahn's youngest brother was checking it out and decided to open the cage. Naturally the squirrel bolted out of the cage and proceeded to tear around the house in total panic. Their Mom freaked at this scene. She was so afraid of this thing. She jumped up on the coffee table and frantically jumped around and screamed in a total panic. All us kids thought this was the funniest darn thing and fell on the floor laughing like a bunch of stoned fools. She was screaming Vietnamese so of course I had no clue to what she was actually saying. After several minutes we were able to get the squirrel out of the house and back into freedom much to its delight. Outside of yelling and screaming when the scene was over their Mom did nothing. This was all too typical. When all of us stoners, and there was a large number of us, started eating too much food their Dad put locks on the cabinets. Being the industrious stoners we were we would take the screws out of the hinges and get out munchies that way. Our primary source of munchies, ramen noodles. This was way before ramen noodles were a mass market thing like they are today. His parents would take roadtrips to NYC and do the massive shopping trips at an Asian market there. These events were so common that they did not seem out of the ordinary. So anyhow I located three of the five kids on Facebook this weekend. Reconnecting will be great. All the kids live in California now and I have not seen them in over 20 years.

Yesterday I went to my usual Sunday football hangout and watched the Bucs get hammered. I think this was one of the worst games I have ever seen them play. Totally pathetic. One odd thing yesterday was the sea fog. It was just right along the beach and very heavy. It did keep the temps down quite a bunch. After the game I went to the beach and took a few shots. A couple look like they may have come out quite well. If so those will be tomorrows posts.

I think I am going to go to the Webster flea market this morning. Then come home and do the EBay stuff and take some of the plants out of the starter pots and put them in the garden.

Have a good Monday my friends.