This weekend I learned

This weekend I learned that a 17' U-Haul isn't nearly big enough. I also learned how much crap I've accumulated (why do I hold on to decks of cards that are missing cards?), how black the top of the refrigerator gets with dust, the variable meaning of "I've emptied all the cabinets", and that my wife really doesn't like cast iron cookware. I also learned that emptying a truck is much faster than loading one; but oddly, as slow as it takes to pack up all of life's detritus into boxes, it takes much longer to unpack the boxes once they are successfully moved into the garage of the new place. I also have rediscovered the meaning of "sore", I feel like I've been run over by the truck I rented, and I look forward to being able to rediscover all these wonderous things next weekend. But the best thing is, I learned that Home is where you choose to go to have a Negro Modello, sit by the fire, and recover when life has been hard lived.