bjarvis | Packing & Sorting

cuyahogarvr arrives in a few days so we're now frantically working to ensure we have space for his ~~junk~~ precious worldly belongings.

This morning, we rented an 8'x10' climate controlled storage locker at a nearby facility. Various surplus furniture items will be moved there, some

kent4str's, some his family's and some

cuyahogarvr's. I'm also moving nearly all of our square dance 45rpm records offsite for safekeeping and not incidentally to ensure our rental fees become a business expense. The DC Lambda Squares' sound equipment and other supplies will also likely live there, presuming they (and we) survive the Harper's Ferry Hoedown next weekend.

Many of my antique computers are going to the storage locker as well. I love these old machines but there's no need to clutter our home with them, especially as we try to merge

_cuyahogarvr's household into ours.

There are several boxes of materials belonging to the Lesbian & Gay Chorus of Washington DC; we'll be contact them shortly for instructions of where their items may be transferred. In the interim, they go to the newly acquired storage locker.

We have a large number of theater lights and controllers which are going to be donated to the local chapter of the Metropolitan Community Church; they're slated to go away in December but they may go to the locker in the interim to free up the space at home.

A tonne o' stuff is going to Goodwill, including a vast array of old t-shirts and seldom used sweaters, pants and misc household items. Several garbage bags are filled with items too threadbare to be given to anyone else.

I'm finally letting go of an old shirt I've kept for 23 years. Our family home in northern Ontario burnt to the ground February 6, 1984; I came home from high school to find a black smoking crater where my house once stood. I was wearing the shirt in question; it is the only personal item left from my life before the fire. It has been nearly 24 years now and the shirt hasn't been worn in 20. It's time to let it go.

While cleaning out closets and basement storage rooms, we've finally made a measure of our inventories of some items. Thanks to bulk purchases and imperfect remembrance of our household needs, we have 27 rolls of toilet paper, six of paper towels, three packages of 330 napkins, six boxes of 150 sandwich bags, three boxes of 50 quart freezer bags and two boxes of 50 gallon freezer bags. We also have three theatrical breakaway bottles if anyone feels like christening a ship or bopping someone over the head.