I Have Become, In The Parlance of Sailors, a "Dirt Dweller!"

SHIP'S BLOG:

     Well, not really.  But it is true that I have a place to call my "own" and will no longer be homeless during the winter months. I now have a studio apartment in the Crocker House in downtown New London about two blocks up State Street from the train station. It has a little more space than ABISHAG but actually probably not all that much, just arranged differently. One thing it does have is heat and for an old fart like m that is a welcome winter pleasure. And unless something changes radically, like Publishers Clearing House finally finds me, this will be my home. It is basically "just down the road" from TYC and so far, it seems "ideal."

     One thing I have noticed is that there is a "lot' more noise living in an apartment than living on a boat. It is an old building, having been erected in 1873 and though it was renovated in the recent past, they didn't really get into "sound insulation." It has very nice hardwood floors which though beautiful, make wonderful sounding boards for the transmission of  noise down to 10 decibels which is about the level of sound made by someone folding a paper towel. But I will adjust and get use to it.

     I have to head off to the TVCCA, an organization that helps "us" poor and elderly with rent and heat and food and the like. A few extra bucks here and there will do very nicely.

     I have to "decorate" the place. I got a bed, a big step as sleeping on the floor would have been a drag. I also purchased a set of folding tray tables and a rack to hold them when not in use, a folding wooden chair, a TV, and a host of domestic products like toilet paper, pare towels, knives, forks and spoons, coffee mugs, plates, tea pot and fry pan,sheet, a trash can, etc, etc, etc. It is amazing what you have to get when you don't have anything(shower curtain and soap!).  But when I think back, it took a good two years to outfit ABISHAG and I am in no rush. My sisters will be by buy in a day or so to see what they can help out with from their storage units. But no too much as I don't need a lot and don't have a lot of room anyhow. But the truth is, I have "swallowed the anchor!"