guitars, shipped!

i took today off to get some work done.

so, the tenant's nephew (who lives out of state) said that all he wanted (besides family photos, which i'm keeping an eye out for) were the tenant's guitars and the electric keyboard. so i packed everything up in guitar boxes (big thanks to i_leonardo for picking them up for me and providing some packing materials) and shipped it all off today. yaaaay! this is a huge thing off my list of things to do to deal with the apartment.

i also found a couple of organizations that will take housewares and furniture and give them directly to people transitioning from homeless to a residence and thus need housewares and furniture. (my first preference is to put the stuff to work directly helping people when possible. from there, goodwill or something like it. after that, craigslist and the curb. i'm avoiding the salvation army because it seems an inappropriate place to send the belongings of a pagan gay guy.)

did some more cleaning, which resulted in me being inspired to take this picture of myself -- myspace pose + respirator. it's a look. *grin*