A few stories on recent moving surrounding me.
(a) Today one of the lab members was leaving. We had a send off party with a cake. She accepted a job offer from a biotech/medical research company in San Francisco and will be working on immuno-oncology project there. The project will be a good fit for her specialties. Good for her.
I'll be participating in an interview for someone who may be filling in the position tomorrow.
(b) Speaking of moving out, a nice neighbor lived in a house on my walking/jogging course. We greeted each other. She even gave me some vegetables from the garden. The neighbor also seemed to have moved out a few days ago.
(c) This past Sunday, my sister was moving our mother to a care facility closer to her home. I pledged and sent Biden's $1,400 to my sister to help the moving. Thank you, President Biden.
Then there was a moving in.
(d) There was a house on the same walking course. The house had been empty for a couple of years under somewhat gruesome circumstances.
On a summer day two years ago, I was walking down the road. Then there were police cars, police tapes surrounding the house, some cops in and out of the house, and several neighbors watching.
There was unmistakable stench of rotting meat in the air. "Someone must have died there", I thought.
Later, local news told me that they found a man who was shot dead in the house. The man in his late 20's did not show up in his work, so his workplace sent police to check on, and they found the man's body on the floor. Certainly, I could see a bullet hole in the window. The shooter sneaked up and shot the victim from outside.
In the following months, local news reported some follow ups. They caught the shooters. The shooting was due to some sort of triangle relationship.
Come to think of it, death is a form of moving out, too.
The house was cleaned and repainted. There was a "for sale" sign in the front yard earlier this year, then the sign was gone.
Recently I saw someone moved in the house. The house is occupied again.
Any old house would have a resident or two who died there. I would not panic to know death, unless ghost horror movie stuff /paranormal activities actually occur.
I didn't know if real estate agents are mandated to tell these dead people circumstances to new house seekers. Quick search educated me that in most states including Oklahoma, they don't have to tell buyers about paranormal activities or death. Hmm.
I say nothing bad will happen. But, good luck to the new residents.
