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Today I drove to Fresno for an eye doctor appointment. I’d gotten new contacts a few weeks ago and this was the follow-up visit. One of the things I had planned to do was to visit my mom’s storage locker and inventory the contents. That didn’t go quite as well as planned. First, we had a lot of trouble finding the key. My mom had given me one three years ago, but I have no idea where it is now. She’d sent her key to friends in Fresno who were looking for some furniture a while back. She called them and they found the key and I made arrangements to meet them. Unfortunately, once I got to the locker, it was the wrong key! Fortunately I’d thought ahead and had my mother call the storage place to make sure I was an authorized user and I was able to get them to cut the lock for me. I bought a replacement lock and I’m keeping the key.

The stuff in storage presented another problem. It’s been in the locker for over three years and hadn’t been opened in almost all that time. Everything was coated with a thick layer of dust. I’m talking thick, folks. As in I was still sneezing ten minutes later! I took pictures but the bottom line is I couldn’t even get in there to do an inventory. For one, I didn’t want to get filthy, and for another, everything was piled and stacked so high I didn’t want to unpack and have to repack everything. Then there’s the fact that there’s a lot of stuff there! I didn’t see as much furniture as I was expecting: most of the stuff appears to be boxes. Supposedly there’s a sofa and recliner in there but I couldn’t see anything but boxes and dust. It’s going to be a mess getting that stuff out of there. So much more my idea of loading it onto the truck quickly: we’re going to have to dust and clean before we can do much moving. It’s not going to be fun.