The Car's All Packed, And I Stand in this Empty Room

Sometimes moving is easy, like the time I helped my then-girlfriend-now-wife move into this jerry-built apartment building in Superior. We spent eight hours pulling out wayward nail heads, disinfecting everything visible, trying to get the whirlpool tub to work, and eventually moving everything in. We hadn't even unpacked the first box when we heard a car being broken into.

"You're not living here," I decided. When she first chose this place, she didn't think she'd have a choice. It was getting tough to afford the nice place in which she lived until hours ago. Three hours in this wasteland changed her mind. One way or another, we were moving right back out.

Indeed, she couldn't afford her current place - but the top-floor apartment of the same complex opened up a month later and we moved her into that. Happily ever after.

So what does this have to do with your showing up here and finding this story instead of ... I don't know, something else? Where are the archives? Why don't any of the widgets work anymore?

I told as many people as I could across as many avenues as I could. If I didn't get to you, I apologize.

I've moved.

If you read my announcement at the end of last month - Look! I just sent you to the new site! But if you're still here, it came to that point where a name change was in order to 1) let folks know what they were really in for here; and 2) avoid any trademark tizzies my name might have brought on down the road.

This move wasn't easy. It's going to take some getting used to, similarly to how a long-time homeowner may accidentally drive back to the wrong home after changing addresses. I'm sure I'll have to make some new friends in this neighborhood, and I'm getting set to sign up for new coffee groups. We miss what we left behind, but it doesn't stop us from building on the new foundation.

And so it is, my new website is minnesotaskinny.blogspot.com. I promise, if the stuff you came for in the past is what you wanted from me, you'll get plenty more of the same at my new address. In fact, I'm hoping to give you a little more - but there are intricacies to be worked out. A little at a time.

I want to thank you for tuning in, and I hope you come join us at the new house. If you don't, I won't hold it against you - it's a big Internet, I know, and there are billions of cats you could be looking at right now. I'm grateful you stopped by.

But for those who do, get ready ...

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