7-plus years is a long time.
I just saw the first DHL vehicle with my stuff in it off for New York. Due to a miscalculation they sent a van that wasn’t large enough to fit my first round of boxes. I’m waiting for the second DHL truck of the night to pick up boxes with my dining room table, chairs, stereo in ‘em.
Moving is a reflective time. A time to look back at the things that one’s done while one was living in San Francisco (in rough chronological order) - having roommate mishaps and misunderstandings, working at the world’s best video store, getting involved with a nice lady, moving into the Mission, doing robot research stuff and then crappy contract work during the Internet bubble, riding bikes, writing and testing computer on the release of - ummm - a bunch of commercial software releases, getting hit by a car while on bike, falling in love, reviewing records, re-starting my blog, starting my own sourdough starter, baking a lot of bread, making tofu and cheese and mock-chicken from scratch, getting bored, playing a lot of guitar, quitting my reliable (but ultimately not challenging and therefore unfulfilling) job to go work at a cool startup, getting doored while riding bikes, writing and recording a full album, playing a rock show where mostly my friends showed up, playing music with a bunch of rad people, playing a rock show where people other than my friends showed up, getting ready to move to New York City, some rain, some sunshine. A lot of good times. Not so many bad.
Now I’m sitting in a half-furnished apartment, surrounded by half-filled boxes, rolls of bubble-wrap, three piles of stuff - SHIP, SELL OR GIVE AWAY, NOT SURE. Items move from pile to pile - music and most music instruments are in the SHIP pile. Same thing with art that I haven’t looked at in a few years but is too personal to give away. Books mostly go in the SELL OR GIVE AWAY pile. While they’re full of information and may be linked to memories, they’re relatively replacable.
It feels good to look through this stuff, even better to get rid of most of it.
Now if anybody wants to buy some furniture…
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