I am moving

Great. So just let me know when you have my ticket reserved. I could use some time without weather.
Oh. Please - if you think of it - I'd like the vegetarian meal for the plane. Pasta or rice and a roll with butter would be ideal.

I mean, there's the smell, but there's also the sheer power in having a roll of that 3-inch wide clear tape on a hand-held roller. The control. You run it over every surface you want - twice, if you like - and then, with a flip of the wrist, it's cut.
And all the while (even in the midst of the headiest of odors coming off the tape), you think: whoever carries this package is going to KNOW - now there's a man who knows how to seal a box.
And your heart goes out to the poor box, battered, perhaps, at the end of the voyage the corners are going to be flattened and the sides ripped to hell - but the seams where you taped them are damned well going to still be in perfect shape.
And then... you run out of tape and pull off the roll, and the cardboard support is so thick it takes two fingers and a thumb to mash it down flat for the recycling. And at the end, it always takes off that little triangle of the cardboard support with the last piece of tape... which is when you know it's time for a nice cold glass of tap water.