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[Alkarii]

Just finished watching the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It's really good, focusing on Captain Pike and set before Kirk's command of the Enterprise. A couple of the episodes feel like the script could have been adapted from the original series (except with better acting, directing, and an obviously larger budget).

A common phrase in regards to Trek shows, is "growing the beard," meaning a Star Trek show has managed to hit its stride and the quality has improved... SNW had it from the first episode, in my opinion, though there is one episode where a single character just didn't sit right. Not sure, but I hope something bad happens to them in a future season.

I'm gonna look into getting Paramount+ soon so I can watch all the Trek not currently in my possession, as far as physical copies go.

[Alkarii]

Well... mom ended up going to Ohio today without telling any of us she was leaving until she got to Indiana. She's not been holding up very well over dad, and she hasn't been talking to me about it.

So it looks like I'm going to spend another week and a half alone in the house.

[Alkarii]

Well... it seems that in a few months, I will likely end up moving to Ohio with my mom. It will be the first time I've moved since the first week of July of 2005. I don't like this house, or the area, but, well... there's been so much of my life in this one house, more than half of it. I've buried so many pets here, more than at all our previous homes combined. We've had burglaries happen. We've had one of our own carried out of our house in a body bag on a gurney.

This house doesn't feel like the same place it used to be, and it will never feel like it used to.

I'll be able to get a transfer, and I may be able to take a leave of absence from work to do the complete move. The biggest concern is going to be moving the cats on a 12 hour drive.

[Dave]

This house doesn't feel like the same place it used to be, and it will never feel like it used to.

It's a cliche which is literally thousands of years old now: you cannot step into the same river twice. It's no longer the same river, and you are not the same person you were.

All you can do - all any of us can do - is move towards, as best as we can, in the world in which we find ourselves.

I'm sorry that your move is being brought on by such unhappy events... but perhaps making the move will help you find a new center of happiness in life.

[FreeFlier]

You might try not feeding that cats the day of the move until you're almost ready to leave . . . cats tend sleep after eating.

And putting butter on the top of their feet after you arrive is reported to help them adapt to their new home. Apparently it inspired a full-body bath that removes the scent of the old home.

--FreeFlier

[Alkarii]

It turns out that I may have an option that doesn't require me moving out of state. A few years ago, my parents bought a pole barn as a storage building, and it seems like we're going to move it to my brother's. We can have it turned into a tiny house, and I could live there. Most of my belongings would fit in there, and I wouldn't have to go far for familial company, since I'd be in the backyard. There wouldn't be as much paperwork that I would have to do, and it wouldn't mean the end of our D&D group, at least for now.

As for the cats, we could get a pet door installed on the shed, as there's already one on the back door of my brother's place, so they could follow me if they needed. The neighborhood is also cat friendly, as there are cats all over the place. Granted, I'll have three cats with me, and my brother has four of his own, so it'll get pretty crowded with fuzzies, but I'm sure we can adapt to that.

This house wasn't really that great of a home, to be honest. It isn't the best area, and there's too many bad memories, even if we've lived here longer than any other home we've had. In my case, I've lived here longer than all the other homes I've had combined. We moved into this house five and a half months before I turned 18, and my father died just a day or two after we reached 18 years in this house.