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Aug. 26th, 2003 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pseydtonneI finally moved the last carload of stuff from Somerville to Melrose. I'd taken a good fortnight of hiatus, then ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chaggalagirl and I hauled a carload yesterday and I hauled a load this evening.
I still don't have proper places for most of the stuff. The filing cabinet will go here in the office, but only after I clear some more space in the office closet.
I'll need to clean sooner than later, most likely tomorrow evening. I need to find my spare Linux drive so that I can transfer files. It's buried somewhere in the office closet. Most things in the office closet will soon sit in a drawer... I hope.
I was talking to my mom this morning. She says our old neighborhood has been declared an historic site by the city and thus making mods to the house are now almost impossible.
Let's review: I grew up just outside the Cornhill section of Utica. There is NOTHING historic about this neighborhood. All the old trees that lined the boulevard (Genesee Street) caught Dutch Elm Disease back in '58. The place is older than a strip mall, but it's still not relevant to the unique culture that defined A DYING PART OF CIVILIZATION. Ain't nuthin' there. Oooh! An abandoned supermarket and two abandoned drug stores. Gadzooks! Homes burned for the insurance money. Wow! Police frisking a crack head! Lookie heah -- winos that started their addiction right around the end of the Volstead Act! Call the preservationists.
My parents' house is the newest house on three blocks -- it was built in 1915. Thus the house is the same age as the War to End All Wars. Confusing age with historical value sounds like something Californians would do. "Wow, this is older than I am. It must be special..." No, it just expired.
Did I mention nothing happened there? The most historic event in that part of town was the building that housed some of the Univac corporation. Other parts of the town had things happen. The region from Oneida Square to the Parkway had nothing happen but arson.
I can't even find evidence of this online. I want some facts. I also want to know what made my cereal taste seriously bitter. The milk hadn't gone bad, the various cereals seem fine alone. Maybe I didn't clean the bowl properly.
-picking up some bleach, Dante
chaggalagirl and I hauled a carload yesterday and I hauled a load this evening.I still don't have proper places for most of the stuff. The filing cabinet will go here in the office, but only after I clear some more space in the office closet.
I'll need to clean sooner than later, most likely tomorrow evening. I need to find my spare Linux drive so that I can transfer files. It's buried somewhere in the office closet. Most things in the office closet will soon sit in a drawer... I hope.
I was talking to my mom this morning. She says our old neighborhood has been declared an historic site by the city and thus making mods to the house are now almost impossible.
Let's review: I grew up just outside the Cornhill section of Utica. There is NOTHING historic about this neighborhood. All the old trees that lined the boulevard (Genesee Street) caught Dutch Elm Disease back in '58. The place is older than a strip mall, but it's still not relevant to the unique culture that defined A DYING PART OF CIVILIZATION. Ain't nuthin' there. Oooh! An abandoned supermarket and two abandoned drug stores. Gadzooks! Homes burned for the insurance money. Wow! Police frisking a crack head! Lookie heah -- winos that started their addiction right around the end of the Volstead Act! Call the preservationists.
My parents' house is the newest house on three blocks -- it was built in 1915. Thus the house is the same age as the War to End All Wars. Confusing age with historical value sounds like something Californians would do. "Wow, this is older than I am. It must be special..." No, it just expired.
Did I mention nothing happened there? The most historic event in that part of town was the building that housed some of the Univac corporation. Other parts of the town had things happen. The region from Oneida Square to the Parkway had nothing happen but arson.
I can't even find evidence of this online. I want some facts. I also want to know what made my cereal taste seriously bitter. The milk hadn't gone bad, the various cereals seem fine alone. Maybe I didn't clean the bowl properly.
-picking up some bleach, Dante
