On Shipping Coals to Newcastle

[dr_phil_physics]

Whew

A crew of four gentlemen from Nelson's (Wendy's boss) church based residential rehab program have just left, along with a couple of Wendy's friends, transporting a whole U-Haul and a small trailer of furniture and boxes and gear to the Salvation Army. From 10-3 much of the apartment has been emptied. Given Wendy's proclivity to gather tons of Christmas decorations, craft & sewing supplies, books, CDs, records, DVDs, kitchen gear and every Tupperware™ product known to Man (some of it brand spanking new)... there are going to be some very happy people who will be able to have things. We'd asked the apartment people if the washer & dryer were theirs or Wendy's -- they weren't sure. But today they got back to us and they weren't theirs, so someone will be able to have a nice washer & dryer as well.

Mounds Of Data

I had planned on going through Wendy's CDs, but there were too many. We pulled all the DVDs, since I knew she had who sets of things like Babylon 5, which we don't have. But there are a lot of those. And so many books...

I pulled some of the ones I knew were signed. And the yearbooks that Wendy and Paul worked on. But the four guys from the Covenant House were a riot. They couldn't believe the range of books that Wendy had. I told them they could take any and all they wanted. So all the Star Wars tie-in novels. And Robert Jordan and David Weber and Michael Crichton. I think the Twilight books went with them, too. (grin) As well as some of the books on Watergate (!!) and politics.

And when I told them that they could take any CDs they wanted, too, they were thrilled. And when the two big boxes of vinyl showed up, the one guy who has his mom's record player from 1972 snatched those all up. "Do you think there's any Led Zeppelin?" Perhaps. Definitely The Beatles, though. And Jethro Tull. And other amazing things.

Adam, one of the SF fans, was impressed that I wrote SF. So when I found a stack of printouts of stories of mine, mostly unpublished, I added those to their haul. I wasn't going to bring those back to Michigan or North Carolina, because we have those stories. And I didn't want to throw them out, after all. (grin)

All in all, a good day's work.

Dr. Phil

Comments

[aloysius7.livejournal.com]

It's good to see that out of sadness can come a little joy. That had to have been very hard, but I'm glad that there were people there to help and bring a smile or two.

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

If it had been anybody but my sister, going through all the belongings would be creepy, but this was stuff I knew -- either by sight or reputation, so to speak. And I was able to tell some stories about some of the things. And yeah, there's going to be some amusement out of the whole thing at times, too. (grin)

Dr. Phil

[tracey gouraud (from livejournal.com)]

reminds me of when we had to clean out my Father-in-law's house. A couple things we learned was to have their mail forwarded to you so that you can then cancel any thing that needs to get canceled and let others know that don't know. Also, get a more copies of the death certificate then you think you will need.

On all the different people coming at different times both expected and unexpected, sounds like you have some good info for a new SF story.

my thoughts are with you and all that you're going thru.

Love,
Cuz Tracey

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes. Unfortunately -- and here's a tip for all you folks out there -- while I can get the mail stopped, until the Probate Court finalizes the paperwork, since there is no will, I can't get the mail forwarded yet.

Dr. Phil