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A Long Day's Journey Into A New Place

9/12/2017

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​   It seems like only yesterday that a group of Tommy's awesome friends,
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...gathered to together to help him move from his old space in Gahanna, to a new space,
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​...in a cute neighborhood in German Village.
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     But that move was actually a good year and a half ago, on March 12, 2016, and this past Saturday there was a re-convening of some of the old members of the old Awesome-Friend Moving Crew with one new member: The Awesome- Friend Moving Crew:  Patrick, Tom, Tommy, Thomas, Randy, and Ben,
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...to once again help Tommy leave the old place, for a new one he'll be sharing with Emily,
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...in the nearby Brewery District.
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     Moving day started  early, around 8 am, when Tommy arrived in our driveway with a good-sized U-Haul to pick up some things that Tom and I, in proper parental mode, had been storing.
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​     We then proceeded to Tommy's place,
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...and as the helpers began arriving one by one,
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​...the loading began.
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     Several hours later when the truck was all packed up,
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...the guys headed over to the new apartment to unload while I stayed behind at the old apartment to clean,
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...and say good-bye to this nice little place.
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       Then it was time for a lunch break.
      For lunch those of the crew who didn't have to leave after the first shift headed over to an up-and-coming downtown Columbus neighborhood called Olde Towne East,

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​    (don't ask me why all the "e's" at the end of the words, that's just how it is),
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...where there are gardens planted along the sidewalk,
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...and where we ate at a place called Yellow Brick Pizza,
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...where the decor was awesome,
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...the food was very good,
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...but the service was the pits.  Even though the restaurant was practically empty we waited well over an hour and a half for our pizza to arrive.  Which was probably why the restaurant was empty on a Saturday afternoon.
      By the time we finished lunch - which we hadn't planned on taking so long - it was late afternoon, but we still had the  the second half of the job to tackle, that is, now moving Emily's possessions (Emily, by the dictates of Providence, had to work this Saturday), 
from the room that she rented in  a house in Olde Towne East,
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...to the new apartment.
     Tommy and Emily's new apartment is in a Brewery District complex called Brewer's Yard,

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...with a beautiful view of downtown Columbus,
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​...and, from their apartment, a beautiful view of the pool area.
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     Emily's father Bruce,
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​...and his fiancee Mary,
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...had arrived to join the moving crew, and after everything was unloaded,
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​...Bruce and Mary proceeded to arrange the living room furniture into a homey, if temporary, configuration.
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     By 7 pm the most of the crew had gone home and by 7:30 Tom and I were likewise ready to call it a day.  So we did.
     We arrived home dog-tired, finally understanding what was meant by a hard day's night.


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