Tag: Moving
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#26: Receive Your Life: Pack-In
“Anytime you reach out to someone for assistance in this organization, it’s going to seem like the first time it’s ever been asked.” – Common federal government credo Two seasons had passed since I watched my belongings being hauled away in an 18-wheeler through a process known as “Pack Out”. Similar to the way the…
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#12: Leaving D.C.
“I think the tough times are finally behind me. There will always be bad things, but my life is good. It is as I want it to be. It’s good.” -Sera, played by Elizabeth Shue in the 1995 film Leaving Las Vegas. What is your travel style? I know men who refuse to check a…
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#8: Sold!
“I’ve always felt very temporary about myself.” -John Cusack, portraying the character of Martin Blank in the 1997 dark humor film Grosse Pointe Blank. Several years ago one evening I was at the local grocery store after work, quietly debating with myself the importance of the word “organic”, when I received a call informing me…
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#4: Move Your Life: Packout
The doorbell rang at 8:00am sharp, but I didn’t need to look at the clock to know it was the movers. I could hear the massive 14.8-liter Detroit Diesel idling under the hood of the sparkling clean 2016 Freightliner Cascadia semitruck parked in front of my soon-to-be empty house. After the veteran driver gave me…
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#3: Measure Your Life: Preparing for the Move
“And you’re really spread out now, you’ve got s—t all over the world! You’ve got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets; supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.” -Comedian George Carlin at Comic Relief in 1986 They say you don’t realize how much…
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