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Cojo: The Face of PKD
A “celebrity” (I use the term loosely) has announced that he has PKD. [I have PKD, which is why I mention this].
Moving, Sort of
The Budget truck rental place didn’t have my reservation on file, and they had no trucks to rent. The guy said I could try calling him in the afternoon. I went to the U-Haul place, the one next to Durham’s prison by the ballpark, the same place I’ve been a dozen times, for my own moves and for Psi U moves over the years. No trucks available, but maybe later, but the sleazeball manager wasn’t too trustworthy, insisting to another customer that the mileage rate for weekend rentals was 79 cents a mile, which I might well be, but the customer thought it was 59 cents, and Budget’s is 49 cents, and U-Haul trucks always suck anyway…
…and I hadn’t really prepared well at all for this move and thought it perhaps it would be better to skip the big-stuff move for now and just try to get some boxes and smaller things moved. If only anyone were available to help me. Jason is ostensibly still raking leaves. Harrison is off on errands. And I told Dave he didn’t need to come over today, since he has studying to do and he did say he’d be available in two weeks, when I now expect to do the big-stuff move.
Aremid is freaking out, since he knows that boxes mean moving, and my being gone five days a week likely adds another layer of confusion to the whole puzzle within in tiny feline skull.
Zellouisa is peeing all over the bathroom. I bought some glucose test strips. Yeah, she’s diabetic, all right. I got her indecipherable records from Park Vet, but I don’t know when and where I’ll take Zellouisa next. She will have to go on insulin, and I’m not sure how I’m going to find someone willing to give her shots twice a day, or two people to give her one shot a day.
November 19, 2004 – Toastie Moves to Raleigh
Signed my lease this morning. I didn’t get my keys yet as they hadn’t made them, and they were replacing the carpet. That’s not exactly a good sign that I wasn’t free to move in the day my lease started at any time I wanted. I have to wait until 2:00. They should prorate my rent for today.
I did reserve a moving truck for tomorrow. I’ll hope that someone will help me out with the $150 refundable security deposit, and then it should just got about $70-80 for the actual rental. I’m getting a Budget/Ryder truck because every time I have used U-Haul, I have vowed never to use U-Haul again, but then I always use them because they’re so cheap…but not this time.
Trying to figure out what objects I should take with me for my first trip over there. Maybe the TV, although I can’t afford to get the cable set-up yet.
I’ve got to get Sirius radio…
And I really need to get to sleep, must be up at 5 to catch 7:55 flight back to Raleigh
I’m over my Sarah McLachlan cynicism. This song, like many others, just kicks ass.
