New Digs

For those of you who have been following the ongoing saga of my search for a new place to live -- and perhaps wondering if I was actually going to be able to pull everything together on the rather tight timetable I have to get out of my current apartment -- here's the new update.

I've actually been farther along than I'd really let on before. I was just not wanting to "get my hopes up" or anything, in case something should fall through along the way. And while I suppose anything's still possible, I've cleared most of the major hurdles. I've found the place, reached an agreement and settled the contract, gone through the inspection with no major issues, and things seem on track for a close in two weeks.

And a quick move in right after that.

Things around current Chez Heimlich are slowly starting to get even more sparse than normal, with non-essentials already finding their way into boxes. I recently started digging through the storage closet on my apartment balcony, finding sealed boxes full of books I haven't missed since I first put them in there three years ago. Some of the boxes are in fact labeled with comments like "e-Bay" or "used book store" or such. So I'll be seeing just what I can get rid of here in the couple weeks I have.

Even if I don't, this is still going to be less of an effort than moving the last few friends I've helped out. Yikes.