Leaving Philadelphia Today
Sunday, December 16th, 2001Brothers-in-law Richard and Roger, and good friend Joe, drove here yesterday to load up my things and move me back to Altoona for the second time in as many years. However, there isn’t enough room in the U-Haul truck for me to ride home with them. So I’ll be leaving Philadelphia on this morning’s Amtrak train, and they’ll meet me at Mom’s later today, to unload. I’m here at the bus stop now, awaiting the 58, to take me to the Frankford Terminal.
I don’t want to be leaving Philadelphia. It killed me to move away from here the last time, in January of 2000. Even now, I’ve not yet accomplished what I came here to do; to form lasting and close friendships with one or more beautiful women. But this apartment at Red Lion Road is simply too noisy for me, and I need to live a lot cheaper now, as my future as a software engineer contains dark clouds. I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be working for my current employer. But I sense that severance is coming fast, whether initiated by them or me. So leaving Philladelphia is one big step I must take to prepare for that other departure, which will probably occur in the next few years.
I wish to write. But I don’t know if I’ll ever make enough money at that to afford housing in which I can live comfortably here in southeastern Pennsylvania. Certainly, I’ll be quite poor in the early years as an author. So I’m returning home once again to live with Mom, until such time, if ever, that I can duplicate my current income, while working in my own writing business.