So Tired

So Tired was Originally Posted on November 8, 2003 by

Are y’all tire of my “I’m still packing” blogs?

Imagine my side of the story :-) Perhaps I should go back and delete out all of the “I’m still packing” parts.

Well, I would if I had the time. As you may not be aware… I’m still packing…. :-)Don’t worry, these blogs will get shorter and more to the point over the next few weeks.

Last night, a neighbor asked me to stop by, at about 9:30pm (that’s when he gets home from work). I took some Kona Coffee over and he, his wife, daughter and I talked about the island. They want to visit the islands, but it appears that the sales only come up when his daughter is in school.

Last weekend I went to a hamfest (a swapmeet for Ham Radio Operators) and sold about $330 worth of stuff. One item I wanted to sell was an oscilloscope (scope for short) which was on a rolling cart. everyone wanted the cart instead of the equipment. I sold the cart and brought the scope back home. Yesterday I had a mini garage sale. One guy came up and asked about the scope. It is so heavy that I decided to give it to him, rather than cart it to the dump. As he carried it to his car, another guy cam running up. “Do you have another scope? I have been looking for that model for years…” Sigh! I wonder how much money I could have sold it for?

I am waffling back and forth over whether to ship my boxes via DHX (a shipping company) or the Postal Service. The postal service is easy and nearby and takes weeks to get my stuff to my post office right near my new home. DHX has an office near the airpost here and my things will arrive in Hilo, the town on the other side of the Big Island. I would ahve to rent a truck here and there to get the boxes to and from DHX.

So far, the only DHX costs I know for sure are the minimum ocean charges and until I get all the boxes ready, I can’t tell final costs. I suspect DHX will be cheaper. We are still talking less than $1,000 to ship the last of my “worldy possessions”.

Atlanta has turned cooler the past few nights and it will be in the 40’s at night soon. At the moment, it is about 33 degreese on Mauna Kea on the Big Island, and before long, snow!

My webpage is coming along. I’ve also contacted the printer to start work on the labels. Here is a trivia fact, the forn (typeface) for the website and the font for the label, may differ :-)

I have to set up my desktop computer to work without a monitor. When I leave Atlanta, I promised my current big monitor to a friend. In Hawaii it may take me a while to find a good deal on another. It is too much hassle to ship monitors and this one weighs a ton. I think I’d like to try an LCD one out there. Less heat and less power draw. The current monitor (an HP C5211B) has served me well over the years and has great color and resolution. It also has RGB and the VGA subminiature plug so you can hook it up to multiple types of computer video cards.

Only a week left before I leave.