Legal Commentary

Coming Up for Air and Open Thread

By Jeralyn

If you missed our earlier open threads this week, you may not know I haven't been blogging for a few days because I'm moving.

I am finally in the new place, 3.5 miles from the old one, and everything is still in disarray. If you're in the mood for details, click on "more" below:

Despite downsizing two times in the past four years, this was the most inte nse move yet. I spent days throwing stuff out. It still took three movers 8 hours Thursday to pack me and four movers 13 hours to move me. Not to mention $4,000.00 That doesn't include the 6 hours the electronic people spent here Thursday putting in new cable outlets and installing a house-wide wireless network.

The TL kid came over with food at 10:30 pm. I got up at 6am to start unpacking and I still haven't found my computer cords and components.

I also have jury service Monday and pleadings due.

So I doubt I'll be around before Monday night, unless I can blog from the courthouse while waiting to be excused by lawyers who would never put me on a jury. (That's all of them.)

As for why I moved, I'm a perennial renter. The owners of the last place had one of those sub-prime loan that came due...you can guess the rest. Despite my three year lease, I had to go.

The good news is I'm in a brand new house -- the first person to occupy it. I have another three year lease and the owner is a pretty big builder with, he assured me, "deep pockets" so he won't lose the place.

And no, the experience hasn't made me want to buy a house. At this stage of my life, it's far too much responsibility and more of a commitment than I'm willing to make.

Okay, I'm off to search for my computer cords. Have a great weekend everyone, and this is an open thread.

Update 6:45 pm MT: Thanks to the TL kid, my home office is all hooked up.... computer, printer, fax machine, an external hard drive and external dvd burner, Fujitsu scan snap scanner, stereo speakers and subwoofer ...,he also hooked up my kitchen Apple Macbook with the 23 inch monitor and speakers. What he got: An HP LaserJet printer, a leather notebook and some dishes. What a great kid. He even offered to come back in a few days to hook up the dvd recorders to the cable boxes.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).