[Current Mood | blah ]

Good morning, world. The new week is here. It’s sunny, and the back door is open for Pippin. Podrick is on the table beside me, snuggling up to a mug of coffee.

We went out to Shady Acres yesterday afternoon to help move boxes out of the house. They’re downsizing, and the realtor will be there this afternoon to take some pictures of the house. They have a lot of things packed up with the expectation they’ll be moving out sometime soon, and a lot of stuff for the town yard sale that’s happening in a couple of weeks. Shawshank‘s mom thinks they’ll have one yard sale with the rest of the town, then a second one after a move.

Naturally, as the ones actually doing the pick-things-up-and-put-them-down, the two of us get first dibs on anything in the SELL boxes. Shawshank found a bin with his childhood Gameboy, plus a few of its games. There was also a bin with a Wii, and no less than 3 Nintendo DS systems. We left those. As much as they’d be fun to play with, neither of us would play with them for more than a couple of hours. Shawshank‘s going to try to sell them to one of his coworkers.

I left the house with some embroidery hoops, so I can make my own shit. His mom gave me some of the little plastic things to wind my thread on, which will be super helpful with the next kits. She offered a few cross-stitch kits from Gran’s stash, but I declined. I can’t be constrained by a graph.

Shawshank is closing all week. I’ll be running bean streams all week. The last time I promoted a full week, all the systems updated, broke my stream, and I was offline for 3 weeks.