I considered quoting M-People, but decided that Curtis Mayfield was a better match. ;)
I have now moved all but 20 or so of my books, as well as all but a handful of CDs. I'm not tracking my CD collection as closely as my books, but there were enough for two large plastic crates, a slightly smaller plastic crate, a big box and two smaller boxes. I always remember that books are heavy in bulk, but for some reason I'm always surprised at the heft of large numbers of CDs. They look like they should be so light...
Adding all my lists of books together, I see that I own a bit over 1,600 books. (This is one of the reasons why I felt it was important to get a head-start on packing.) Oh, and I don't think I'm tracking role-playing books - but they'd only add thirty or forty at most, so they wouldn't make that much of a difference. In case anyone's interested, here's the lists of my fiction, non-fiction & humor, current as of now. As Chuck noted, there are a bunch of obvious gaps, but filling in the holes might have to wait until I've paid off my mortgage; or at least until I've whittled my unread-books pile down a bit. :)
Fiction books (1100+)
Nonfiction and humor books (400+)
This means that the two biggest of my... uh... things-that-are-essentially-similar-groupings are done. The other TTAESGs (clothes, DVDs, and kitchenware) should be much easier; and then it's just a few boxes and bags of random stuff. Oh, and furniture, which I'm dealing with separately.
What's a better name for those groupings? Collections? Agglomerations? Crashes? No, that's rhinos...
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I was thinking about how it was odd that I was startled by swearing on other people's blogs. I mean, I can swear - I just normally choose not to. I've certainly been teased at work for saying "bother", "argh" and "crap-a-doodle" where others would express things more strongly; but my philosophy is that if you use up all your swears on minor things, then you won't have any left over for when you're inarticulately infurated by the idiocy of whatever you're getting all het up about. One consequence is that cursing is pretty much an all-verbal thing for me.
I should say that I don't mind it, particularly. It'd be pretty difficult to work in IT if I did, the genteel environs of Victoria's CompSci department excepted - there's some sort of "informal == tshirts, jeans and swearing" equation going on. Then again, I don't tend to wear jeans, either. ;)
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Just booked Cool Moves to come over on the 4th (at 4:15pm) and move my big furniture. I'd've preferred to do it on the weekend, but they're completely booked for Saturday, and aren't working Sunday; they've said they'll give me a call back if they get a Saturday cancellation. So... pretty much done on the whole moving-out thing, except for tidying the garage so that a bunch of my furniture has a place to go. I also got around to paying for the building inspection, so I just have the valuer, the mortgage broker and the lawyer to go, as well as organizing insurance, getting a time to go over to the new place and find out security codes and stuff, and possibly setting up a family trust, wills, powers of attorney, etc.
Okay, maybe I have more to do than I thought.
But only 18 more days to go! :)
Posted by svend at January 27, 2005 7:35 AMCan I ask? The swearing on the blog? Was it mine? I've used 'bitchy' and 'crap' recently and I'm not sure where your tolerance lies.
Yours in paranoid anticipation,
Steve.
P.S. Do you need a hand with the move at all?
Posted by: hix at January 29, 2005 9:43 AMme swears like an illiterate-yet-verbose young sailor... slap me if it annoys you :)
As regards names for groupings of objects involved in moving house, how about a "murder"? I know that crows, but it *should* apply to moving house, darn it!
Swearing (in the context of people's blogs) doesn't *annoy* me - it *disconcerts* me, which is a very different kettle of tea. Anyway, I wasn't thinking about the level of "crap" or "bitch", though the second might make me blink if used in certain contexts - I was thinking more along the lines of calling someone a "felching fucktard arse-hat". Not that the blogs that I was reading were quite at that level anyway; from wha tI remember, they were all just using "fuck" to indicate a hightened level of emotion.
Anyway, I noticed that I did a double-take when I saw some people's blogged swearing, and was trying to work out why. This wasn't intended as a request for anyone to change their behaviour. :)
(Okay, who would have thought that all I needed to do to get comments would be to talk about swearing and cats? :)
Posted by: Svend at January 29, 2005 11:02 PMAs for the move - it's almost done, from my point of view. Apart from the things that Cool Moves will shift for me on Friday, I've got about a boot-full of stuff left, plus kitchen stuff; call it a car-load. So as far as moving goes, I should be fine. :)
Posted by: Svend at January 29, 2005 11:06 PMhuzzah! getting movers to move your stuff is very smart. I might try to remember that next time, rather than abandoning heavy objects to the Sallies.
(hey, you want to carry a $60 fifth-hand fridge down four flights of stairs, be my guest)
Posted by: phreq at January 30, 2005 10:15 AMMy parents owned a van while I was at university, and I lived in Wellington - you think that I *didn't* move that fridge, or its spiritual brother? :)
Hm. I know planes and ships are traditionally female, and cars often are (though I tend to think of mine as male). But is there any such tradition with whiteware?
Posted by: Svend at January 30, 2005 8:50 PMAny unpredictable appliance that blows hot and cold and weighs 600 pounds has gotta be female, I say sexistly :)
Posted by: phreq at February 2, 2005 7:23 AM