Kudos on the move! Just hope your new place is bigger than my little studio thing here in Seattle that I started outgrowing several years ago. I haven't even gotten around to a bamboo dishrack yet. Then again, I used to work in contract archaeology, traveling all over the country in my own car, living out of a suitcase in cheap motels and campsites, etc. Tends to strip away vestiges of civilization. On my first dig (in western Wyoming, fall of '88), I actually washed my hair in a rancher's cow pond one time. I'm probably still washing amoebas off of my scalp.

By the way, some of my mother's relatives came from Lucerne, MO. I, unfortunately, have had almost no contact with that state, aside from the St. Louis and Kansas City airports...