Now this is a truly splendid idea! My life has been less than what I would have liked it to be since our daughter disowned us in May. We redid all of our legal end of life documents to reflect the new family situation. Last week, I was de-friended on Facebook. That turned out to be quite liberating.
Last night, Carlton said that we must accept the fact the one of us will die alone. One of us will have to be sure that by the time we die – everything is taken care of and anything that is left should be stored in 4 cardboard boxes. One will contain legal papers. The other 3 personal trinkets that can be delivered to the dump or Goodwill. This is a little scary, but also liberating. There is not going to be a Peg and Carlton Presidential Library anywhere. Relatives are not going to fight over our “stuff”. No one is going to say “Now, this belonged Peg’s Grandmother”. So, use it. Enjoy it. Or get rid of it and have less “stuff” to take care of. Nobody will care about my junk after I am gone. No one will even care that I have gone – if I am the last to go. That is OK. It is all sort of a Buddhist impermanence thing. We are both good with that.
So what is the TRULY SPLENDID IDEA? I have wanted to change hosting providers for years. But, it always seemed like too much trouble. After the last four months – how bad can it really be? And, I can save enough money to rationalize replacing my Snail Internet with something better. I am sure that Verizon will cut DSL service to me within the next year anyhow. They spent a bunch wiring for FIOS. They will try to force us to buy it.