congratulations to my children for managing to move from idaho to wash dc over the past few days dodging tornadoes and winter weather traversing some of the same terrain as the doomed donner party in 1846 and that was in the summer and fall.. 

a huge u-haul truck now sits on my driveway probably spurring gossip among some of my less mentally endowed neighbors.  having had experience from new jersey challenged humanoids i can imagine the created news to be:

"the u-haul arrived in the middle of the night."

"i was sure they would leave before the sun came up today but the old man probably couldn't load their meager possessions that fast."

"i was wondering when that old couple would move or die."

"they must be in foreclosure and are escaping."

"glad they're leaving because i'm tired of paying for birth control for sluts and welfare for the indigent."

"i'm definitely voting republican."

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