Thursday June 23rd 2016

After a long day yesterday I couldn’t get motivated to commute to the house for a day of physical labor. Instead I used the time at my RV home to research on the internet a lot of things I need to get accomplished in the next few weeks. I can’t believe it’s the 23rd of June already. As long as it was still cool weather, I could fool myself into believing I had lots of time.

I don’t have great internet here, but it’s good enough to allow me to do my research. Some of the things I was looking up were just refreshers while others were whole new topics. Chief among the topics was real estate agents doing business in the Merrimack NH area. There don’t seem to be many small agencies in the area. Most of the agents, or teams of agents have aligned with big agencies. The agencies in turn are aligned with the national marketing “names”. The only way to figure out what agents are doing business in town seems to be to drill down from the agency web sites to the individual agent biographies. Some of those are impressive and others are weak to non-existent. My research combined with input from friends has resulted in a short list.

I also was checking into the consignment shops in the area. They are very much a discriminating group. The premise is show us a picture and we’ll tell you if we are interested in selling it for you and for the privilege we’ll take a high percentage of the selling price. A dining room set and a bed room set are about the only thing I have to get rid of that might fall into this category.

Checking into places that will take donations is equally frustrating. The list of excluded items is huge. If its upholstered or to heavy to pickup don’t even think about finding a group to take it. It is a sad commentary on the society we live in today. Old picture tube based TVs and computer monitors have no place to go. You need to pay to get rid of them. I’m impressed that the NH Goodwill will take computers and electronic stuff, the ones in Massachusetts don’t.

Another thing I worked on today was changing my email address with various vendors and services. For years my main email address was associated with my DSL internet service from the phone company. I need to get all of the email address changed to my service neutral gmail account so I can terminate my home phone service. The challenge is remembering or looking up from paper records the passwords to get into the various sites to change the email address online. For some of them I’m changing the mailing address now, for others I’ll have to go back in a few weeks to change it. So much fun.

The campground is starting to fill up for the weekend.

Here at the campground the place is starting to fill up for the weekend. It has been only sparsely populated during the week. I expect it will be full or pretty close over the weekend. I know it is full the next weekend for the holiday. The two sites on each side of me are still empty, but I’m sure that won’t last.

Tomorrow, I’m back to the commute and the physical labor.