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Apr. 30th, 2005 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI'm not going to take pictures of our stuffed-to-the-gills vehicles because I've already started unloading them, but I am becoming more and more convinced that we warped time and space to fit everything that we did. I just took our full-size, stand-up vacuum cleaner out of the back of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wooisme's station wagon and, having done so, cannot figure out how I could possibly put it back in if I needed to. The hole left after the extraction is about a fifth of the necessary size.
At the end of out packing session it came down to leaving a few things behind, but they were just things like cleaning supplies and assorted other easily replaceable stuff. The only thing I really wish could have fit were the two eight-foot clothes-hanging bars and related support hardware. All in all though, we did exceedingly well. I think this trip may well have had the lowest wasted space quotient yet since, as the day wore on, we stopped boxing stuff and just started hauling it out and tossing it in the car. We went shopping at Salvation Army and Goodwill on our way here (yes, I'm afraid we are entirely incorrigable) and were concerned about buying a few record albums because we were honestly not sure we could find a place for them in either car; they were that full. I drove all the way here with boxes falling on my head (finally I jammed a pizza box on top of the offending package which wedged it against the roof so it couldn't fall) and a guitar case that I had to keep pushing off of the steering wheel. It was quite a trip.
I'll write about the rest of the moving experience once I get to it (it's all kind of a blur to me so it will probably be highlights) but, speaking of trips, I'm already tentatively planning another one; here are my thoughts:
Please read the following road-trip related message from the star-struck doggy:
I've always wanted to see a space shuttle launch in person. After the Columbia disaster, I started entertaining the notion of trying to get out to see the next one. The Columbia hit me pretty hard and I thought that, as well as the fulfillment of a childhood dream, making the trek to see the next launch would be a wonderful way to pay tribute to the space program, to Columbia and her crew, and to everyone (and everything; let's not forget the animals...) who's sacrificed their time, their hearts, their souls, or their lives for the space program. Listening to NPR on the drive, I heard that the launch has been delayed again, this time until the middle of July. I'm thinking that, since I'll have been working at my new job (which, again, I will write about later) long enough to take some vacation days, I might road-trip down to Florida to watch the launch.
The idea got me so excited that I started thinking about all the music I'd want to take with me to listen to on the way. Among all the other things I'd take with, I'd bring a copy of Minus Ten and Counting (classic space exploration filk if you're not familiar with it) to listen to as we're pulling up to Cape Canaveral. Still have to figure out logistics and stuff, but I'm seriously going to try to pull it off.
Therefore, I want to see if anybody reading this, or any of their friends who are good people to be stuck in a car with for multiple days (why do I think thatanarchist_nomad might possibly be interested?), have any interest in accompanying me. There must be a few space fanatics out there and I would love to have company to share the driving with. If I end up going by myself I'd probably just sleep at truck stops in the bed of my truck, but if I have people with me that's certainly negotiable. I'd love for people to respond and let me know what they think or whether they're interested in going. No commitments necessary; I don't even know if I'm going. But if anyone thinks it might be even a remote possibility, let me know!
wooisme's station wagon and, having done so, cannot figure out how I could possibly put it back in if I needed to. The hole left after the extraction is about a fifth of the necessary size. At the end of out packing session it came down to leaving a few things behind, but they were just things like cleaning supplies and assorted other easily replaceable stuff. The only thing I really wish could have fit were the two eight-foot clothes-hanging bars and related support hardware. All in all though, we did exceedingly well. I think this trip may well have had the lowest wasted space quotient yet since, as the day wore on, we stopped boxing stuff and just started hauling it out and tossing it in the car. We went shopping at Salvation Army and Goodwill on our way here (yes, I'm afraid we are entirely incorrigable) and were concerned about buying a few record albums because we were honestly not sure we could find a place for them in either car; they were that full. I drove all the way here with boxes falling on my head (finally I jammed a pizza box on top of the offending package which wedged it against the roof so it couldn't fall) and a guitar case that I had to keep pushing off of the steering wheel. It was quite a trip.
I'll write about the rest of the moving experience once I get to it (it's all kind of a blur to me so it will probably be highlights) but, speaking of trips, I'm already tentatively planning another one; here are my thoughts:
I've always wanted to see a space shuttle launch in person. After the Columbia disaster, I started entertaining the notion of trying to get out to see the next one. The Columbia hit me pretty hard and I thought that, as well as the fulfillment of a childhood dream, making the trek to see the next launch would be a wonderful way to pay tribute to the space program, to Columbia and her crew, and to everyone (and everything; let's not forget the animals...) who's sacrificed their time, their hearts, their souls, or their lives for the space program. Listening to NPR on the drive, I heard that the launch has been delayed again, this time until the middle of July. I'm thinking that, since I'll have been working at my new job (which, again, I will write about later) long enough to take some vacation days, I might road-trip down to Florida to watch the launch.
The idea got me so excited that I started thinking about all the music I'd want to take with me to listen to on the way. Among all the other things I'd take with, I'd bring a copy of Minus Ten and Counting (classic space exploration filk if you're not familiar with it) to listen to as we're pulling up to Cape Canaveral. Still have to figure out logistics and stuff, but I'm seriously going to try to pull it off.
Therefore, I want to see if anybody reading this, or any of their friends who are good people to be stuck in a car with for multiple days (why do I think that
anarchist_nomad might possibly be interested?), have any interest in accompanying me. There must be a few space fanatics out there and I would love to have company to share the driving with. If I end up going by myself I'd probably just sleep at truck stops in the bed of my truck, but if I have people with me that's certainly negotiable. I'd love for people to respond and let me know what they think or whether they're interested in going. No commitments necessary; I don't even know if I'm going. But if anyone thinks it might be even a remote possibility, let me know!
