End of sentence, end of an era

It is now less than a week until my worldly possessions are once again packed into a shipping container and sent 3000 miles away. Actually, this go-around I will be returning lighter. The tri-state area has been put on notice to hand in terms of surrender to me in 2 weeks. I am reachable fairly easily by light rail and PATH train if the selected representatives do not have cars.

On a more serious note, I have gotten rid of a lot unusable, unneeded and otherwise old things which would not be worth sending back. It is less eerie this time to see my property boxed and piled in my living room. Maybe it is because I am going back to more familiar surroundings. I have been getting a perfunctory stream of goodbyes already. I know most of them really do not mean it. I smile and thank them anyway. At this point I am just happy to leave. I have learned many things while out on the west coast or more specifically in Detroit, CA.

• That horrible smell really was because we were downwind from both a dog food and rendering plant


• There is no such thing as a good party which did not involve live ammo


• No matter how many drugs you think a u-tox will turn up positive, there will be more and not the ones you were expecting


• Hemorrhoids in prisoners are not caused by what everyone thinks they are caused by


• Reading on a college level is a liability


• Berkeley, not San Francisco is the source of all evil in the world


• There is no bad time to mix chainsaws and alcohol


• No matter what they tell you , anyone in a bar wearing a corset never has good intentions
  

This time, I am looking forward to moving. I will be overjoyed to be near my family again. I will be ecstatic to be in the awesome presence that is Dunkin Donuts. I am amazed that as ghetto as Detroit, CA is, there is a Starbucks on every block. I am sure I will stay in touch with a few of the people in my soon to be former hospital, but for the most part I am happy to be rid of them. I am beginning to see from what surrounds me that "average" is really a nice way of saying stupid. Mike Judge was entirely right in his movie "Idiocracy". Things may not be much different back east, but at least I will be able to put my life back together. Hopefully there will be another post or 2 before I fly away. 18 Days to go.