Termites

Here's a little bit of Odd Fate.  MY home (I live in a rented duplex) is being tented for termites in two days and I'm packing up to move out while the place gets gased and then move back in again.  Yikes.  Sure, I must take out the food, the medicines, the opened boxes of oatmeal, but what about my hard drive that contains all the footage of this project?

Of course, I realize I am being ridiculous.  I leave my place every day to go to The Day Job and I never worry about leaving the hard drive.  I never worry about a fire or an earthquake.  And as a reward for my sanity the hard drive is always there when I get back, ready to have me download more footage from each interview I shoot.  I even go away for weekends on occasion.  I never worry that the hard drive will get up and walk away.

But termite tenting?  I can't explain my paranoia.  For such little guys, they carry a lot of power.  Plus, moving out and moving back in again feels major. 

Of course, I will take the hard drive with me.  I will sleep with it under my pillow.  I will carry it like a purse.  I cannot take a chance that something could happen to Two Years of Work.

So today I feel like a nutcase. 

But if I am a nutcase, I do not forget what a LUCKY nutcase I am.  At least I have a home to move back in to.

Thanks again for reading.