Acclimated

06:52 Sunday, 14 September 2025
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We've been back in Florida for about 36 hours and one thing I've noticed is that I seem to have thoroughly acclimated myself to New York's cooler climate. Keeping the house at 77°F here is uncomfortable. I've also noticed how loud the AC is! Since we seldom use AC in New York, and when we do it's just a mini-split and it's practically silent.

More pluses for New York.

We got rid of some furniture yesterday that Mitzi had sold on Facebook Marketplace. One of the buyers was a gent from Palm Coast, originally Nashville, Tennessee. He's been in Florida for only a couple of years, but he's trying to sell his place and plans to move to Memphis. We talked about hills and Florida's terrain, we have similar views. His place has been on the market for ten months.

Here's a question for the folks who saw divine intervention in the attempt on Trump's life, what does it mean that Charlie Kirk wasn't spared?

Anyway, back to moving... I was pleased to find that all my computer history books were still on the shelves back here. That meant they weren't in a box somewhere up in New York. I grabbed a few that I'm carrying back in a suitcase. Boxing up everything else on the shelves was kind of depressing, knowing that my friends won't be accessible to me for a year or so. It's not like I read them every day, but I like knowing I can just go back to "the library" and pull one off the shelf when I want to refresh my memory about something.

We're disassembling the bed this morning and removing the mirror from the dresser. Mitzi has sold the bedroom set and someone is coming by this morning to pick it up. We'll be sleeping on the Murphy bed tonight. Tight!

Once we get everything disassembled, I'm heading out to see my kids. Easier for me to get to each of them than for us to all gather someplace at the same time. Then it'll be back here for more packing and organizing.

The "pod" arrives tomorrow and a couple of guys we've hired several times before will be here on Tuesday to load it all (hopefully?) up. Wednesday we fly back to New York and a week or so later the pod arrives at Winterfell. We're having it delivered right to the house so we can unload the couch sections and the Husky rolling workbench/toolbox right into the house and garage. The toolbox will be the first thing into the pod, because it's going to be the last thing out. It weighs several hundred pounds, so lifting it into the Maverick was never going to be an option.

It occurred to me last night that if I take both of the HomePods and the AppleTV that are still here home with us, we won't have a HomeKit hub. So I'm going to leave the AppleTV and we'll ask our realtor to mail that back to us when the house finally sells. I could "see" the Powerwalls, the hot water heater and the thermostat with just wife and the internet connection, but I don't think I could control the lights. Maybe I could if there's a Lutron app? But we also want to be able to leave a security camera and Apple Home is a better experience than Aqara's app unless you pay them for their cloud storage.

Excited to see my kids, but also to get finished packing everything up and getting it out of here. We can close remotely, so we won't have to return just for that. I'll probably be back from time to time to visit the kids, but hopefully they'll come to see us once we get the new place built. My oldest grandchildren will be graduating from high school in a few years!

Well, better grab a screwdriver and get to work.

As always, the beat goes on...

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