Up and at 'em to Chicago

The scoreboard is on and Owen and I are about to head out of this piece and begin our westward migration. One major tip regarding cost free moving is to schedule your move just after a group of friends have moved and then take all of their recently minted boxes. The other takeaway from this experience is that if you put things on the sidewalk, generally people will claim them quickly. Though I must admit my green office chair has been out there for almost two days. Even the used candles went faster than that. Other than whipping up some broccoli and onion pizza (both vegetables are far beyond their normal lives), the only major task left is to shred the receipts of the past two years. Oh all the trips to Costco, Save-A-Lot, Giant, and Whole Foods; how funny it is to look at your artifacts in retrospect and think about the immanence of life. This year's receipts are a much slimmer pile indeed...