Ghost in the machine, Final countdown

by Duf Anything and Everything

Either my house is haunted or someone/thing is f’ing with me.  Over the past few weeks I have had a couple weird moments where something seemed out of place, clearly where I did not leave it.  I have written it off as perhaps just memory failure on my part, until last night.

When I got home I headed to the bedroom and flopped my backpack on the bed as I always do.  I look down at my nightstand and notice it is pulled away at an angle from the wall, a good 8-10 inches.  Now I KNOW I did not move my nightstand.  The only moving object in the house yesterday was the Neato which cleaned the entire house.

The nightstand table is not heavy by itself but it does have my Sony Dash web appliance on it as well as a number of magazines.  Plus it’s feet sit in little indentations on the carpet, making it even harder to move by something operating a few inches off the ground.  I can hardly believe the Neato has the necessary torque to do this, plus it has a bumper on the front which would normally cause it to avoid the obstacle all together in addition to it’s laser tracking.

I stood there for several moments, dumbfounded.  I walked around the rest of the house to see if anything looked odd or out of place.  Nope, all seemed well.  I have no idea what the fck is going on but I will be paying close attention from here on out. (and turning my web cam back on)

So today I will be attending to all the final details before my early AM launch northward tomorrow morning.  I hope to have the dogs loaded up and ready to roll around 5AM.  I’ll be picking them up tonight.

I am debating how I want to handle my sleeping arrangements on Wednesday night.  I am considering just crawling on the bed in the back of the van and catching a couple hours of zz’s.  I have tried sleeping in that bed before without much success, it is just too short to accommodate my dimensions comfortably.  It would be nice to save the the 75-100 bucks on a hotel room and put that towards the enormous gas bills I will be generating instead.

It should be a fun trip.  I am actually a little bummed out that the temperatures while I am up there are predicted to be on the mild side (for a PA winter).