So many things to say I didn't in the last diary. Still strange for my mother to say to me, lets get in the elevator. Stranger still all the stuff they have. As I've said about a step above hording. What I find most odd, at least to me, is within stuff worth really nothing are items that might be worth tens of thousands if maybe priceless for my family.
I am a III. My grandfather, my father, and myself in most instances are very similar and different. The same we loved to read and study. We'd give you the shirt off our back. We are never too happy or too sad or too mad. I do smile a tone more in a day then either of them might in a year. I also talk about myself, they NEVER did or do :)!
Maybe most of all where we are the same is we are set in our ways even in our early 20s. This is how things are done and we never cottoned much to do them another way or liked those that didn't agree (clearly taught through generations). I've found this charter trait only gets more extreme as we get older. I am 48. Dad 75. My dad is to the far extreme of me right now on the concept of change. Note this for the next few graphs.
So today he allowed me to reorganize his entire dinning room in his house, not the house his grandfather built, but the one across the street for his "books' and "stuff"
Put up a 70 inch TV I stream fro my laptop. My "charging station" for a Bluetooth headset, speaker, headphones, you name it. Card table for my cloths, which I can really fit in a large duffel bag.
Cleaned out the cabinet in his bathroom, where I found Asprin that expried in 2001. Put my stuff in. Went to work on the kitchen.
Stunned me he let me do this.
For my office I only had to clear off a 100+ year old dinning room table that could sit 12-15, and looks like it is brand new. Mom came to see what might in the future be called the "uncluttering of 2017" and asked if I'd like it. My large table was lost in the fire. I said it looks brand new. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Said she tried to give it to my younger brother a few months ago when he moved his family to a new house and he laughed at it. Said Jeff thinks anything not new, is worthless. I don’t think that. This table flat out rocks. Mom was like "good" I know you will respect our stuff when you are gone.
She started to walk me through the house to point out expensive items. Almost before she did I knew the items. I am like mom I might mock you for all the "shit" you buy, but you didn't raise a fool. I know there might be hundreds of thousands of dollars in your two houses many people will walk past. I won't.
So settled in.
A little over a week in almost feel at home. Home in a place I know I'll be for at least 2 or 3+ months as my house is rebuilt.
BTW: I live in a much, much smaller rural town and I got 100mbps for $49 a month cable connection. Dad has Verzion DSL. It is like I am in the stone age here. We as liberals need to promote better, faster, cheaper, rural Internet access for all.