packing.

It's down to the wire now. I'm in the midst of determining what stays and what goes on my move to Ann Arbor. The Subaru is packed with everything I'll need when I get there. And the moving gorillas show up next week to gather everything I'll need when the dust settles.

The last time I moved back east (in 1994), I had an entire box of CDs and stereo speakers. Now I'm down to a single iPod with 5,000 songs.

It's a tricky thing, moving from the land of sunshine to the land of snow and mud. Those flannel-lined khakis from LL Bean, so useful in Vermont (and so utterly useless in San Jose), are about to make a return to prime time.