We finished moving, finally, this past weekend.  That is 5 big rental trucks in 3 months.  This is, as I truly trust, my last moving truck rental while moving my own stuff.  We have moved two sets of everything into a not nearly big enough house.  How can two people accumulate so much stuff?!  We are in the process of selling and throwing out and giving away and donating and wishing I had a transmogrifier (note:  see Calvin and Hobbes).

For the first time in my life, we are going to have a pool.  The pool guys came out and dug a hole in the back yard today.  I felt like a child again watching the man with the “steam shovel” dig out the sand and muck (that’s dirt for you non-Floridians).  He nearly dug out the shape of the pool himself with his big digging device.  Such graceful movements for a large piece of machinery.  We don’t appreciate how hard it is to do such simple looking things.  I give a hearty thank you and well done to the many people who do outstandingly good work on so many mundane things.  You don’t appreciate a good weather tight roof until you live in a house that leaks.  There are so many men and women who do things every day that we all take for granted and wouldn’t want to do ourselves.

As we have been in the moving process for 4 months (don’t even ask) I have had a lot of “lasts”.  The last night in our Kentucky house, the last time driving a big truck from Kentucky to Florida, the last power and water and telephone bills, well, you get the picture.  But a lot of firsts as well:  the first night in this house, the first time we docked the boat in our own dock, the first time I saw a heron fishing from the back of our boat, the first time I saw “our” hawk sitting in the oak tree out back.  Moving is almost always bittersweet.  The Internet has made leaving your friends behind a little less hard to bear.

I wanted to write a little firsthand experience with iOS8 on my iPad but it has been downloading for over 4 hours.  I don’t usually get the new iOS release the day it comes out.  Just once, though, I thought I’d be one of the fanboys and adopt early.  Cross fingers y’all.

I have not had a lot of time to use any computer of late, too much work with moving and Windows (Microsoft not the glass kind) problems.  Why don’t the new versions of Office just remove the old versions and/or play nice with them.  If I ever upgrade MS Office again I am going to go nuclear on the old version first.  Errgh. I think I have used every version of Office since it came out and mostly it seems all they do is move all the menu buttons and change the colors and locations of the options and decide they aren’t going to be backwards compatible with previous releases.  That is mostly me ranting with no real proof to back anything up.  Thanks, Bill Gates.

My last post delved into some theological issues that I don’t write about in this blog.  I have been wanting to write some “theological” ramblings for a while and now I am doing it.  I am starting a blog called “The Drunk Theologian”.  I will write about all kinds of spiritual issues, probably not the things we were taught in Sunday School back in the Age of the Dinosaurs.  I am not your usual brand of theologian.  If you read the blog, I am not responsible for your starting to think for yourself about what you believe, that is all.  The first post will be available later tonight.   (thedrunktheologian.com or The Drunk Theologian on WordPress)

I’m gonna go and refill my water glass.  See y’all soon.