We’ve kept up steadily with finishing all our digitizing projects, and have been reluctantly sucked into a few technology update projects during the last few months as well. Our massive photo-scanning project is finally finished with thousands of pictures now in digital format and carefully filed in directories. The only remaining desire we have is …
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If we thought making the decision to sell our Czech Republic furniture was emotional, it didn’t hold a candle to the grief in finding new homes for our beloved cats. We’ve loved those cats ever since we carefully and thoughtfully picked them from a litter of kittens at our neighbor’s house back in May 2002. …
One thing we can say unequivocally, dismantling our lives has been a process, and not a quick and easy one. At the beginning, some things were painful to sell or give away, but we quickly realized the necessity or wisdom of doing it. Some things we just didn’t care so much about. Some things we …
One of the most emotional decisions of our entire downsizing project has been putting our Czech Republic furniture up for sale. Back in 1998 we bought eight or nine very old pieces of furniture when we lived in our castle down near the Austrian border. We’d gone from five years of living in eight-hundred-square-foot apartments …
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Once we’ve successfully sold our items and done our little high-five-happy-dance, there’s still the shipping with our eBay and CrazyGuy postings. We have to find the right box and packing materials. It’s got to be sturdy, but it has to be as light and small as possible, so we spend a fair amount of time …
Though the last three months have felt interminable, our never-ending saga of downsizing is at long last coming to an end. Unlike the magician’s hat when he keeps pulling rabbits out, we are finally running out of things to sell or give away. The house is so empty it looks like some of the hostels …
Chelsea and I are always looking for foods that suit our high-activity lives. Over the years we’ve come across some doozies, but along the way we’ve discovered some solid additions to our repertoire of food ideas. Recently we’ve added a few more to our line-up and we like them well enough that I promised my …
Accessories If you’re going to have an e-reader, you’ll need a case for sure, unless you rarely read and then only at home. I had quite an education doing the research on cases. The same holds true with having a light to read at night. M-edge Latitude cases What a find these were! I searched …
Finding books and other resources Once you’ve got your e-reader, how do you find books for it? At first we simply logged onto Amazon and looked for books. I could see in a heartbeat that we definitely did not have the budget for buying books, not at the rate we read, so I checked out …
Using the Kindles We’ve been using the Kindles extensively for the last five months, and we’ve come to realize that we would prefer the newest version of the Barnes and Noble e-ink reader. We wish we had waited. Our biggest irritation is how truly awful the navigation is on the Kindle. Granted it’s a bit …
