Aside from going to a gun show yesterday, this weekend has been all work and no play. At the end of February, Storage USA sent me a letter informing me that they were raising the rates on my storage locker. I had just moved my stuff in a month earlier, so I sent them a nasty-gram expressing my dismay at their slimy business practices. I could understand a periodic increase in rent if I had been using the locker for a year or so, but I had just moved my stuff in and gotten settled. I'm not too happy with the storage locker any way. They don't even have any trash facilities, and the one sole dumpster is surounded by a 10 foot stockade fence, concertina wire, and a mine field. They make it quite clear that tenants are not permitted to use their dumpster.

Since the rent hike started in April, and the slimeballs would not restore my rent to the previous level, I wanted to be out by the end of this month. Of course this was complicated by the fucktards at U-Haul who refused to rent me a trailer. Since U-Haul thinks that we Ford Explorer owners are such awful drivers (their employees mock us on their web site), I had to make repeated trips back and forth between the storage unit and my home. I burned up a full tank of gas and drove an extra 200 miles because U-Haul won't do business with me.

The large furniture went to the Salvation Army a few weeks ago, and I sold off my washer and dryer today. I also set the remaining pieces of furniture out by the dumpster here at my apartment complex. I felt a bit guilty about just setting the furniture out there, but most of it has already been picked up by scavengers. My old desk is gone, as are a nightstand and large microwave that I set out there. I also put an office chair out there that was snatched up while I was still standing there. All the furniture and the microwave were in decent shape and in working order. I just didn't have any room for them. I'm too lazy to have a rummage sale, and don't have the time or energy to stash them until the Salvation Army could make another run.

So, I'm pretty beat right now. I did empty my storage locker but there are tons of boxes sitting around my house. I've still got to take the time to go through all the boxes and throw out any junk. Right now my apartment is a total mess, but I've already put the $200 per month savings from my storage locker to good use. I purchased an .30 M1 carbine at the gun show yesterday.