People keep asking me how we plan to actually get me moved and I smile sweetly and tell them I’m not a bit concerned about it. Lol!
I've been known to buy a beater (in even worse shape than what I normally drove) for a multi-state move, then sell it afterwards. But I routinely carried about 70 pounds of tools wherever I went
.
Couldn't tell you how many trips I made from my current city to North Carolina in a vehicle
that had a hole in the engine block, back in the day. Turns out you can fit over a hundred gallons of water in a 1979 Pontaic LeMans station wagon...
...which lasts about 50 miles
.
You’ve met me. Did you notice any victim mentality?
Nope; you strike me as someone who'd be perfectly willing to approach a lion to see if you might help with its toothache.
Unfortunately, a lion with a toothache will still kill its food, even if it is completely unable to actually eat it.
Some people, OTOH... Are not nearly as nice as lions with toothaches.
I was thinking about looking for a senior class on self defense. I think it’d be neat to learn simple but effective methods to deflect an attack. It’s a class I’ve wanted to take for a long time.
That'd be a real good idea, Susan. Some clown with a $25 Saturday Night Special isn't going to stop to consider whether or not you look like a victim. Unless it's a question of whether or not he decides to mug you (if you do look like a victim) or simply shoot you and then claim your possessions afterward (if you do NOT look like a victim).
Cops don't, as a rule, look like victims, right? One got shot (not fatally, though) down there in April. The one that got shot last October wasn't so lucky. And I'm not trying to pick on your future home city, here - this can (and does) happen in many cities of a certain size. Even (albeit very occasionally) in some smaller ones.
A
good self-defense instructor does more than just teach a person how to use an aggressor's strength against them so as to be able to handle opponents several times their size/strength. They also cover things like knowing, when someone aims a pistol at you, whether it's best to run away dodging, to run
toward the attacker and disarm them, or to roll over and hope for the best. It's about distance, positioning, reading the attacker, et cetera. In other words, things that everyone should know (but that the vast majority of the population does not). Additional benefits include ending up in better physical shape (which never hurts).
Not trying to scare you here (and I do not know if that is even possible
) . But, between random miscreants and alligators, I'd rather hang out with the 'gators.
They'll pretty much ignore you if they have a full belly (and aren't antagonized). Actually, IIRC, they don't even
like to eat people, as a rule. They're "lazy hunters," not really wanting to expend a lot of effort in hunting their meals (more the stalk / ambush from the water kind of thing, IIRC) - and they prefer food they can swallow in one gulp. (
Starving animals have a tendency to eat whatever they can, though - I've seen deer (vegetarians?) eat
fish before.)
Most of what I’ll be moving is lights, tents, and all of the accompanying paraphernalia that goes with this deliciously obcessive hobby we all love.
I suddenly have this mental image of you driving South, the entire truck packed wall-to-wall with growing equipment... and a sack of clothing jammed between your lap and the steering wheel. And I'm thinking, "
THAT'S MY GIRL!!!" LMFAO.
It surprises me what I’m willing to let go of thinking, “It’ll be easier to replace that than it’ll be to pack and move it.”
Depends. Up until I lost 99% of them, I'd cart around old tools, appliances, and the like. Figured I might find the same type of items at the local ChinaMart - but they wouldn't be in the same
universe in terms of quality or durability. For example, my battery charger was manufactured in either
1955 or 1956. I'm
pretty sure it'll outlast the average new one, though. Err... Especially after it went bouncing down the highway one day after it fell out of the back of a pickup truck at 65 MPH and still charged up the fishing boat's trolling motor battery like it'd just been completely refurbished, lol. Think that was roughly 30 years ago. It'll still charge up to five 12V batteries at a time, just fine.
Just jabbering. Trying to blow off enough stress to eat sometime today. You know how it goes...
Hey rik
I’m moving into a house in New Orleans. I’ll still be growing in my tents, but I may have options for some expansion. What I’ll definitely have is a landlord who inspects, not to catch me doing something wong, but to admire the grow and see what we can learn and improve on. That’s a whole new world for me.
Lol, honest word! (Best old-fart hillbilly voice) "I'm here to inspect the place, because I heard a rumor you were growing dope. So...
How're they doin'?"
I wouldn’t think poorly of you if you left none Bode. I’m a little touched that you think enough of me to think I’d be confused by their absence and so came here to explain.
