s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

Do you know what would be a really dumb way to die ? I mean really dumb and pointless ? (But with the possible side-effect of skyrocketing my Geek rating into Legendary territory.) To be crushed to death by a box of Oracle manuals while trying to find the box that has the copy of Baldur’s Gate in it. I can totally see it. Chris, because he is the conscientious sort, would become concerned that he hadn’t seen me since dinner and come down to find an avalanche of boxes and bins, with maybe an arm or a braid sticking out from under it. He and Stephen would then try to piece together just what I had been after, digging through 50+ pound boxes three columns deep, in stacks higher than my head. And Stephen would consult the manifest and see Box #346 (“Last minute boxes, router, CDs & Baldur’s Gate, garb, bathroom trashcan” — definitely packed in the final What-is-it-never-mind-throw-it-in-a-box stage of the packing process) and, shaking a fist at the heavens, shout “Damn you Baldur’s Gate! DAMN YOOUUUUU!!!”

Or not.

We’ll never know, thank your deity of choice, because I have FOUND Box #346, three columns deep, and I have liberated it (also containing, incidentally, the kick-ass Desert Blues CDs I wanted to play for Chris). And I did not drop a box on my neck, and I did not throw out my back, and I did not, when I found myself in the MIDDLE of the stack completely surrounded by boxes to shoulder height with nowhere to put the ones I still needed to move, howl for Chris to come rescue my sorry self.

Go me !