27 April 2004
thoughts from the move
Before I get to the real meat of things, let me say this: I don't think I've been bored for many years. What brought that on was Glenn MacDonald's "37 attempts at a morality of joy" line item number 3:
3. The world is big, we are small. Boredom is a failure of imagination. If you don't wake up curious, you didn't get enough sleep.
I just can't think of a time in the near past wherein I sat, befuddled, with absolutely nothing to do. And now that we've bought a house, I don't see any boredom getting slated into my schedule for quite some time.
So anyway, we've almost completely moved everything, save for much of my computer and stereo equipment and our telephone service. Cursed SBC.
Actually, I should not curse them so much as telephone companies in general&0151;but I will. Curse you, Ameritech, for driving me into the waiting arms of CoreComm with their more attractive offers and seemingly better service. Curse CoreComm for assigning me an abnormal dialing prefix, but curse you Ameritech again too, dammit. Curse you for your DSL service which was unavailable to me before as a non-SBC customer and still unavailable to me now because the CO's too far away. Curse you for your inflated rates and lackadaisical support. Curse you for your repetitive hold music. Curse you for not killing the fattened calf upon my return!
Sorry. I just needed to get that out of my system. This moving process has not only been unending frustration, but also a learning experience. I learned to make sure that socks, underwear and alarm clocks get packed in properly labeled boxes. I learned that any number of hand soap dispensers is useless without any hand soap, and I also learned that we won't need to buy toothpaste or toothbrushes for quite some time.
I learned that some people don't always check that the hot and cold on a faucet have any grounding in reality. I learned that some people don't look at what electrical socket they install for a dryer. I learned that if a lightbulb's not in a socket that fixture doesn't get checked. I could go on and on but really, everybody's getting tired of this. I know I am. Just not bored.