pre-prep for the noble experiment

It's not like today is the first day I've been really working towards this eventual goal, but somehow, today reached REAL ANSWERS...or something.

Got up and swam laps today for the first time in 15 years, so major accomplishment there. Then, after transporting some boxes, I found out that I've been summoned for jury duty in two weeks. Major suckage.

So I didn't really rally so much from that as I indulged in retail therapy. But first I called my top three apartment prospects and found out that calling in early August seems to be the way to go -- silly 60 day notices have gotten me used to a certain way of doing things. So that part of this looks to be on hold -- hopefully not generating even more hysteria on the other end -- and so now I get to focus on other stuff.

That other stuff being the actual moving of things from Point A to a slightly undetermined Point B. I'm looking at PODS and UPack at the moment, but the really fun part of this is that the common denominator of these "yourself-pack" places is that the pods/trailer has to be parked on actual ground which means that my dad's "lawn" is out of the equation. [Most, if not all of my crap will be harbored there b/c I'm cheap, and I'll be living there for the last prep part of this noble experiment, and also b/c my sister's stuff...or the stuff we're moving up, is also there.]

Hmmm, maybe need the Seabees to come out and lay some macadam.

But I did get a chance to order my new Droid platform phone (cost of which will be covered by the return on my COT electric deposit), and started looking at IKEA bed frames as an alternative to taking up the twin futon mattress.

Maybe not the most productive day ever, but I've got quite a bit less to do to clear out the apartment, and I get to watch some Murdoch Mysteries. Huzzah.