If ever buying steel shelving units, either for too many books, or for a garage, I'd suggest you only get the strong steel units that you bang together with a hammer. Don't get the ones with nuts and screws....yech. There is something very satisfying about assembling something just with a hammer, and it is equally satisfying to bash them apart when moving house. Now, John...There is the shelving unit, & here is the hammer...get to it....bash bash bash. Clunk. Very satisfying indeed. With one more day before we head off due to the Big Twuck being delayed, we both just fell apart for a few hours, which was also very satisfying. Clunk. Didn't even need a hammer. So because of the delay it gives us one less day to clean up the place After we pack the stuff into the Twuck, so this afternoon I will be shovelling stones from the balcony (it was set up with artificial grass and stones etc, and it worked pretty well)...into a big bucket and taking them downstairs to the grounds...moving them around on the niftiest little trolley thing I bought for $45 from Super Cheap Auto...its a gem.

Aleppo, Syria. Insurgents now only control 1% of the city. They are pretty well surrounded by Syrian troops and being pulverised by Russian jets. America's idea: "Hey, Syria, why not set up a corridor to let the insurgents run away?" Syria: "Are they going to surrender?" US: "Oh, no, they can't do that. We've given them too many weapons for them to surrender." Syria: "They are radical Islamic Terrorists." US: "No, they are...moderate Islamic terrorists." Syria: "If they are not going to surrender, then they will be killed in war. That's what happens in war, if they don't surrender. If they keep fighting and killing us, they will be killed." US: "But that's not fair. If you do that, they can't regroup and we can't fund them to kill you anymore." "Yep, That's right." US: "Doesn't seem fair. Don't you think that's kind of nasty?" Syria "Well, um, let me think.... ....no."

Aleppo, Syria.
Insurgents now only control 1% of the city. They are pretty well surrounded by Syrian troops and being pulverised by Russian jets.
America's idea: "Hey, Syria, why not set up a corridor to let the insurgents run away?"
Syria: "Are they going to surrender?"
US: "Oh, no, they can't do that. We've given them too many weapons for them to surrender."
Syria: "They are radical Islamic Terrorists."
US: "No, they are...um....(pause)...moderate Islamic terrorists."
Syria: "If they are not going to surrender, then they will be killed in war. That's what happens in war, if they don't surrender. If they keep fighting and killing us, they will be killed."
US: "But that's not fair. If you do that, they can't regroup and we can't fund them to kill you anymore."
"Yep, That's right."
US: "Doesn't seem fair. Don't you think that's kind of nasty?"
Syria "Well, um, let me think.... (pause) ....no."

DAY ONE + or - One, as the big Wiggles WEMOVALISTS Twuck is missing somewhere between Melbourne and Cairns, maybe just having a nap. There remains bed number 2 to be dismantled and some shelving units to be hammered apart. The Mighty Nissan Utility is being serviced.

Most human ventures, including house moving, have a zenith at its uppermost point and a nadir at its lowest ebb. We reached our nadir this afternoon, even before the sun set, and so I went and bought a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. I could tell that our venture had achieved its nadir when, upon returning home with the bucket, and standing in the kitchen, my wife phoned me from the bedroom asking for 2 pieces of chicken.

Most human ventures, including house moving, have a zenith at its uppermost point and a nadir at its lowest ebb. We reached our nadir this afternoon, even before the sun set, and so I went and bought a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

I could tell that our venture had achieved its nadir when, upon returning home with the bucket, and standing in the kitchen, my wife phoned me from the bedroom asking for 2 pieces of chicken to be delivered to her.

I will miss Far North Queensland, when I think of all those times I randomly tied down other folks cattle on the Tablelands and lifted them into the ute to sell for steak and smoked Jerky at Yungaburra market...sigh. Good times. Won't be able to do that so often in the suburbs of Melbourne, I guess. Still, the future is unmapped, maybe opportunities will arise. You never know, Johnny Fitz, you never know. There be drop-bears there, I hear, and even fresh clown meat to be had, if you look carefully into the shadows at night. Goodness me, I just disturbed myself.

I will miss Far North Queensland, when I think of all those times I randomly tied down other folks cattle on the Tablelands and lifted them into the ute to sell for steak and smoked Jerky at Yungaburra market...sigh. Good times.
Won't be able to do that so often in the suburbs of Melbourne, I guess. Still, the future is unmapped, maybe opportunities will arise. You never know, Johnny Fitz, you never know. There be drop-bears there, I hear, and even fresh clown meat to be had, if you look carefully into the shadows at night.
Goodness me, I just disturbed myself.

Mrs Fitz is the other good looking one

Mrs Fitz and I live very happily together and travel a mile or 3000 miles extremely well together, but this box-packing-moving-house-business is a trial, for sure, perhaps as it should be. Now, I'm not going to talk about the defined precincts within the new Melbourne abode for her mandarin language teaching area and my OCD writing area etc...but that will work out just fine too. Now all we need to do is finish the packing up, not talk about those things now...and get there. All these things will work out okay and the only trial in the future I can see coming is when we actually arrive at the Melbourne address...the first out of the car will decide what goes where, which is fine because I will have hand-cuffed her ankles to the car seat well before then anyway. The Nissan Navara D22 2015 Dual Cab Ute has specific hand and foot cuff points fitted to the front passenger seat, and as she does not drive a manual vehicle...well...and, anyway, It is my job, as a man, to be rational and to think ahead...

Mrs Fitz and I live very happily together and travel a mile or 3000 miles extremely well together, but this box-packing-moving-house-business is a trial, for sure, perhaps as it should be.

Now, I'm not going to talk about the defined precincts within the new Melbourne abode for her mandarin language teaching area and my OCD writing area etc...but that will work out just fine too. Now all we need to do is finish the packing up, not talk about those things now...and get there.

All these things will work out okay and the only trial in the future I can see coming is when we actually arrive at the Melbourne address...the first out of the car will decide what goes where, which is fine because I will have hand-cuffed her ankles to the car seat well before then anyway. The Nissan Navara D22 2015 Dual Cab Ute has specific hand and foot cuff points fitted to the front passenger seat, and as she does not drive a manual vehicle...well...and, anyway, It is my job, as a man, to be rational and to think ahead...