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Lazy Sunday CCCXLXIX: Moving Weekend

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By the time you read this post, dear reader, yours portly should have all of his worldly possessions (and Murphy) relocated to the new house.

I’ve come to realize how much I despise moving.  It’s not that I’m not good at it—as a big dude, manhandling boxes is what I’m designed to do—but it is tedious and exhausting.  It also seems to take forever.

I’ve opined on this many, many times lately, to the point that I’m sure all of you are tired of reading about my quotidian problems.  But I write about what’s going in my life, and right now, moving is the major theme of it all.  Indeed, I’m offering 90% off my Bandcamp music with the promo code that sums up my life right now:  moving.

It’s shocking how much crap I’ve accumulated over the years.  I’m finding clothes I haven’t worn in nearly a decade (which tend to get donated to Goodwill).  For some reason, I’ve saved weird gift bags and empty tins (and not cool, decorative ones).  Having lived in a relatively small house of roughly 1000 square feet, most of this stuff ended up shoved into closets or cabinets, never to be seen again—until I’ve had to sort through them.

It’s a Sisyphean task.  Now that everything is (God Willing) moved, I have to unpack it all.  At least this process can take its time to unfold.

With that, I’m subjecting my readers once again to posts about moving:

  • “Midweek Moving” – This post details how I rented a massive truck to move a tiny recliner from my in-laws’ house.
  • “Moving Pains” (only on SubscribeStar) – My devastating takedown of the moving broker SafeShip Movers (do not use them).
  • “More Moving” – A quick post featuring my car packed to the gills with junk (see below) before the piano mover arrived.

The sad thing is, these are only some of the posts I’ve written about moving.  I think I’ve tortured my readers enough!

Happy Sunday!

—TPP

 

Bandcamp Friday Returns for 2026 with 90% Off!

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Everything on my Bandcamp page is 90% off with promo code moving.  That means my entire discography is $9.21.

That means an individual album, like the popular Spooky Season IV, is just $1.

That’s thirty (30) releases for about $0.31 each.

Again, use promo code moving to get anything and everything for 90% off.

Today (Friday, 6 March 2026) is Bandcamp Friday, so Bandcamp waives their usual sales commission on any purchases.

Sure, streaming is great.  But we all know that what’s on a streaming platform today could disappear tomorrow.

Short of physical media, the best option is a lossless digital download that you own forever.

Also, most of my releases come packed with bonus material:  videos, original artwork, handwritten scores, finished scores, and more.

Those scores have real value:  a copy of the score for “Eight Chorales: Semicircles of Fourths” sold earlier this week for $4.99.  It’s included free when you purchase Math: And Other Delights (just $0.70 with promo code moving).

If you’re interested in supporting independent musicians and original composers, consider supporting my work with your Bandcamp purchase.

And don’t forget to use promo code moving for 90%!

Happy Bandcamp Friday!

—TPP

More Moving!

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Moving is the gift that keeps on giving (or the ancient witch’s curse that lingers forever). Dr. Wife and I are back at it again.

The piano mover is loading up the piano and some larger furniture, and I’ve loaded tons of incidental stuff in my tiny 2017 Nissan Versa Note SV:

Loaded like a Baked Potato 🥔

SubscribeStar Saturday content is coming soon!

Happy Trails!

—TPP

SubscribeStar Saturday Post Coming Soon

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My apologies to readers—I’ll have a SubscribeStar Saturday post up tomorrow (God Willing).

We have been working nearly around the clock to get our respective houses packed and cleaned.  This past week I was routinely putting in five or six hours each night after work getting stuff packed, moved, trashed, donated, cleaned, etc.

My pastor has a new carpet and general cleaning service, and I had to the age-old task of preparing for the cleaner:  cleaning.  I was able to clean enough to allow him access to the deep stuff.

It’s amazing how filthy a house can get when inhabited by a busy bachelor over the course of seven years.  Yes, I take out the trash, clean the counters, wash the dishes, do the laundry, etc.  Dusting is my enemy, though, and when you have as much inherited and acquired bric-a-brac and furniture and just plain junk as I do, there are thousands of surfaces for dead, shed skin cells to fall.

Now my house is at a level of cleanliness worthy of selling, and I hope to get it listed this upcoming week (after Winter Storm Fern wreaks her havoc).

Needless to say, my planned piece about the attack on the Minneapolis church is on the backburner.  Dr. Wife and I had another busy day today, and after dinner and errands, I realized I didn’t have it in me to slam out a rant about evil Leftists.

That will come tomorrow.

Stay warm, my friends!

—TPP

Midweek Moving

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Dr. Wife and I continue our gradual moving process today with another big load.  This time, we’re heading from her current residence in North Carolina to our new house in South Carolina.

As part of this stage in our moving process, we stayed overnight at her parents’ new house in another part of North Carolina to dog-sit their precious pug:

Her parents gave us an[other] awesome recliner, so I decided to rent another U-Haul in their town to take advantage of our visit.

However, we ran into a bit of a logistical problem:  how do we get two cars and a moving truck down to South Carolina?  Alternatively, how do we get vehicles where they need to be without necessitating a six-hour-roundtrip drive to and from Dr. Wife’s place?

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Moving Saturday 1 of X

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I’ll have some classic SubscribeStar Saturday content up soon-ish, but Dr. Wife and I just got back from the first of what will likely be several days of moving furniture and such from our respective houses to our new home.  We managed to get all of the furniture her parents gifted us this summer, as well as some furniture I already had.  Additionally, we managed to unload some items at Goodwill.

We’re taking a minute to catch our breaths before indulging in some much-needed protein at the steakhouse.

Stay tuned for more!

—TPP

P.S.—We had a nice Christmas card from regular contributor Ponty and his significant other waiting for us at our new home!  It’s now festooning the mantle in our new living room.

Phone it in Friday CI: YouTube Roundup CLXI: Hoarder House

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As readers know from my epic “Ululations for U-Haul,” I had to move a significant amount of heavy and large furniture from my future in-laws’ house to my humble abode.  My house is not large—it’s roughly 1000-square feet—and already stuffed with my junk.

Fortunately, I’m excellent at Tetris and the grandson of a furniture store owner.  I also grew up in a Victorian house that my mother crammed so full of knick-knacks, bric-a-brac, and gewgaws that I know how to maneuver around tight spaces overstuffed with furniture.  As such, I’ve adapted well to my new hoarder-like conditions.

I documented the state of my home post-move, mainly for my future in-laws’ amusement.  Then I uploaded it to YouTube, where it somehow managed to rack up 1,469 views (at the time of writing).  Let’s get that to 1500, eh, dear readers?

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Ululations for U-Haul

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This past weekend I had to move a bunch of furniture from my future in-laws’ home to my little house.  They are downsizing to a smaller home, and have been donating, selling, and/or rehoming nearly twenty years’ worth of accumulation to whoever will take it.  That means a great deal of their goods have made their way to Dr. Fiancée and me.

The move itself was not terrible, although we had the brutal task of moving an elliptical machine from their second-story rec room to their first-floor garage.  I recruited two former Music students of mine (quipping, “you didn’t know when you signed up for Music in the seventh grade that it was a lifelong commitment”; one of them rejoined, “I should have signed up for Drama”) to assist in the hurly-burly, and we got it all done.  We’re in the midst of a severe heatwave here in the South, so all three of us guzzled down water.  One of my guys got a bit lightheaded from the heat and exertion, but still managed to assist admirably.

In the process, we moved a recliner, couch, nightstand, dresser, and queen-sized bed (with mattress, boxspring, frame, and headboard) into my little house.  I also received a Husqvarna riding lawnmower—quite a gift!

The idea is that I will live like a hoarder for the next nine months or so until Dr. Fiancée and I purchase a home together—one that will, hopefully, accommodate all of this furniture (it will).

But moving all of this nice furniture (thanks, Dr. Fiancée’s mom and dad!) meant getting a truck and trailer large enough to pull it off.  That meant making a reservation with—groan—U-Haul.

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