I have been worried that my new tenant may be some kind of con artist. Since I'm in New York and can't really monitor what is going on out there. Some strange things have been happening I'll talk about later. But after today, I am not so worried. I talked to him and he asked me if I could send him a copy of the lease. His kids got ahold of his copy and tore it to shreds.  He needs it to get his daughter into the local school. It probably was in the same spot on the table where we signed it 2 months ago. Till them dang kids got ahold of it. They're in that destructive age you know.

  But the jokes on him, he doesn't know what a lazy slob I am, I don't even know if I can find my copy!

Homeless

I've been officially homeless now for about 2 months. I stayed at my mom's house in Syracuse for awhile, then i was riding my bike through Canada for a month, now I am at my sister's house in West Hurley, NY. It's a great life without all that stuff. Looks like it will be going full circle soon and I'll be living back in MI for awhile.

Trash Mountain

When you think about it, the term trash mountain literally means "mountain of trash".

Never trust a craigslister

I've spent the day waiting for three different people from craigslist to come get their stuff.
Nobody showed up. The only thing I got real responses from was the old tires I put on the FREE list, then I got 5 calls, and someone was here in 15 min.
I did get rid of my broken washing machine though. I got it as far as the bottom of the basement stairs but couldn't get it any farther by myself. I set the trap by putting a couple of metal items at the curb; a rusty shelving unit and some chicken wire. Then I sat on the porch and waited. Within 30 min. some scrappers showed up and started loading thier pickup. I said "Hey you guys want a washing machine?" "Sure" Wel it's in the basement you just have to bring it up. "OK" !

I'm sorry, the kitchen is closed

I packed up all my pots and pans and threw out all the food. No more cooking here. There are no dishes either because I've been throwing them out every day instead of washing them.

Storage unit is almost full.

I haven't updated in awhile, I plead exhaustion. I rented a 10' x 10' storage unit and have been taking a couple of van loads a day there. Almost done, in a couple of days everything I own will be there or in my car. I was going to leave the window AC for the family moving in (wow I guess I don't even know their name, Sullivan or O'Sullivan or something like that) but I was worried that they would use the AC all the time and run up their electric bill and have nothing left for rent, so they lose, I'm taking it to storage.