Kenny ://

I guess you could say I made it

I finally made it to Charleston and instead of boring you with words and clever witticisms about the journey, I'll narrow it down to a handful of bullet points and some pictures.

• Loretta Lynn's Dude Ranch is more of a buffet than a ranch. 
• Zack can get you kicked out of ANYWHERE - go ahead, try him 
• East TN has some of the most beautiful mtb trails and scenery to be found 
• Joe's Liquors has the best sign in the world 
• Olivia and Hudson are pretty hard to beat when it comes to cute niece and nephew awards 
• Taco Boy in Charleston has unbelievable mahi mahi tacos 
• SATCO in Nashville on a pretty afternoon can't be beat   

I'm lucky to have such good friends.

I will not be updating for a few days. I'm sitting in a parking lot waiting to get served on the trails with Jason and then headed to the woods for a few days. Stay tuned for some cobbles together bee ess about the journey. I think I'm halfway to Charleston in just over two days. Yay me.

It's the details where the devil lives

I usually hate the project managers lament "the devil's in the details" but it kind of rings true for me this week.

I've been kind of lollygagging around waiting for the packers and movers, painting here and there, keeping the house neat and clean and going about my usual business except that I've been eerily calm about the entire move.  I should have known the other shoe was going to drop and here it is:

I need to throw away everything I don't want to either send with the movers or carry myself to Charleston. There's a ton of shat in the basement that I don't want. The gist is that trash-pick-up-day is Wednesday and the movers are coming Thursday. I am hitting the road Friday.  

Think about that.

The movers will clear out the day after trash pick up day and I'll clear out two days after trash pickup day. If you've ever moved, you know there's bound to be cleaning to be done after the movers have cleared out and I'm not going to be here next week to take the trash to the curb and take it back to the back yard.  Do I ask the neighbors to do it and hope they do? Or do I throw every single thing away that I can think of now and hope that there's not a lot left over after they're gone? 

I think I'll do a little of this: throw everything away I can and then just put my trash in with a neighbor's one night, late.  I mean, seriously, do I want someone messing with my trash can when they're going to take theirs to the curb anyway? Are they really going to dig through trash to see who put theirs in with it?  I hope not.  If they do, I'll have to make sure I either don't leave anything with my name on it or that I leave anything in there I want, and cover it with something nasty, like dog poo, so they won't go through it.

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Would you eat this?

Here's a picture from our break room. What you don't see is the 13 large pizza boxes that are empty. Of course, those two cream-based salad dressings were sitting in the sun, too. I took this pic at 4:20 PM - the salad had been sitting in the sun for at least 4 hours at this point. 

"Uh, sure, someone will definitely still want to eat that. Leave it out another hour."