Date: 2009-04-05
To: View Entry
Miles today: 0.0

Another life chapter completed. After 19 year, 4 months, and 23 days it is on to something new and hopefully exciting.   My last week was just as wierd as the past 4 months. People continued to show up to try to buy more furniture and fixtures. We had to keep telling them that it was over.   We spent Monday and Tuesday - moving the big computer equipment out. When I say big - I mean big. The mainframe computer, and lots of servers etc.   The stuff was so big and heavy that it broke the lift gate on the truck that came to pick it up. Tuesday was the crazy day.   They were back with a new truck by 7am. The next one in was some liquidator buying up servers and other stuff.   Couldn't let them take the goods until they wired the money - fiasco.   We filled one roll-off and actually had to call another company to bring in an empty. We hired movers to come and get the rest of the good equipment (copiers, printers, and big stuff like that).   We are storing them until they can be sold. We had to be out of the building by the end of the day.   The new roll-off wasn't delivered until after 5pm.   So, it was a scramble to fill it.   Luckily for us we had staged a ton of the crap so that when the dumpster arrived - we could start to fill it.   I never knew that you opened the door and could walk into one of those things.   I can add that to my resume - dumpster filler.   We filled it in record time and probably could have filled another one. We ended up leaving some stuff in the building just because we didn't have time to get it out.   The team ended up putting up letters in windows from the 3rd floor down to the first - saying good bye. It came out pretty good. By 6:30 - we did a walk through and all gathered in the lobby for one last goodbye.   Very bittersweet.   I will miss the people, but am really glad it is over.The best part of the past 4 months was that one of my youger brothers (PK) has been working with me for the entire time.   He signed up as a temporary worker to help us set up the holiday stores - we did two stores together and then we filed for bankruptcy.   He then was doing a lead/pthalate testing project - testing toys.   Once that finished he got to come to HQ.   He pretty much did everything they asked him to do.   He was doing the crap work while I was actually still doing my real job.   It was really cool to work with him and everyone loved him.   He busted his ass.   It was great to spend so much time with him.Wed - we filled more dumptsers with documents that the court said we could destroy. Thursday - we stacked pallets of documents that we had in archive.   Two short days - and I appreciated the down time.Friday, I went to the new office.   They have a new smaller office that will be used until the last souls are let free (sometime in May).   Said my goodbyes, got some pictures and hit the road.   Hard to believe it is over. At least for me.I was able to get into the Doctors on Tuesday. We discussed some options and decided to go with the shot of cortisone.   He was really good - I never felt a thing.   My foot felt great all day because it was pretty numb.   On Thursday, it was pretty sore again.   But, as of today - it feels pretty good.He gave me a new pad for my shoe - and placed it in the right spot. If you don't get them in the correct spot it kills more than helps.I went for a hike today and it felt pretty good.I booked my flight to Georgia today. I will be heading out on 4/22.   Lots to do in the next 2 weeks.