You know what’s inconvenient?

MOVING.

Moving is a true and mighty pain in the arse. Especially trying to “eco-move.” What is “eco-moving,” you ask? Well, it’s moving without boxes (as we know how wasteful cardboard is) and without any vehicles. Fortunately, we moved only one mile across town, so our difficulties weren’t nearly what they could have been.

I wish I’d taken pictures of how things played out. My partner-in-crime, Andi, found a neat website called RentAPorter.com (since removed due to labor suits but I swear I didn’t know anything about this) and we hired two dozen porters from Cuba, Mexico, Utah and Senegal to move our goods. Back and forth they went, forming a line nearly a block long, all of our belongings either in their hands, strapped to their backs, or both. We even had them carry us to the new house after we tired from directing their efforts. Little Healdsburg hadn’t seen a procession like that in some time!

All in all, we made the move with almost zero carbon emissions (unless you count the emissions related to the food intake of the porters, whose appetites were rather sizeable) and in record time. I’m surprised more people don’t hire porters for their moves. It helps with the economy, employs those who need work, and reduces emissions.

After the move, in going through our various decorative effects, I came across the pictured stamp which we had framed in an old p.o. box door. At the time, I had selected it for it’s graphic design from among the stacks of random stamps left behind by my pop. Today, I realized the profundity of the message and timing.

Forty years ago, it would appear that someone got the memo. The memo that said, “These suburbs are going to be the end of us. No, seriously.” At least someone at the U.S. Postal Service got the message.

We’re still waiting for the rest of the inept gang of Dems and Repubs to read it. Don’t hold your breath folks. That’s why we have third parties. That’s why we have general strikes. Oh, wait. . different post.

Song o’ the Day is one that, if you’re producing a foxy new indie-hip movie, you should use as part of the soundtrack. It’s a track that puts most of the stuff on the Garden State soundtrack to shame. With that, here’s Rogue Wave’s ‘Postage Stamp World’.

[tags]andi, brad-pitt, carbon-emissions, garden-state, lester-brown, poor-old-pop, porter, post-office, random-stamps, rentaporter, rogue-wave[/tags]