Today I fly back to San Diego to help with the packing and loading. Next Wednesday we all come up to Silicon Valley, leaving behind an empty house and with our household goods following somewhere behind. It’s going to be really nice to get this part of the process behind us.
Here’s one of the items I had saved up. This one is from my trip to Seattle a couple of months ago. This troll hides under one of the local bridges, not too far from Ivar’s Salmon House, another local institution. I forgot my camera that trip, by the way. The photo is courtesy of Carol Eidt.
Well, let’s try again and see if I can get a regular flow going here. It’s not really that I haven’t had time to write, though I haven’t had much spare time. It’s more that I haven’t had the gumption to sit down and do it.
I’m living in Cupertino now, in the apartment that will be our temporary home. Up until last weekend, I travelled to San Diego each weekend to continue with the packing and sorting tasks. Next weekend, I’m flying down to help prepare for the movers, who start the packing on the second. They expect to be done loading on the fourth, and we can travel up here to supervise the unpacking. We got them to guarantee they’d do it by the eighth, because on the ninth I have to fly up to Redmond Washington for some meetings. I’ll say one thing for Microsoft; they didn’t hesitate to authorize overtime so I could get to those meetings, just like they don’t hesitate to pay a little extra for a non-stop connection to save a couple of hours.
Last weekend I had nothing particular scheduled, though I did have a todo list. I got the list done, but the rest of the weekend turned into naps as I played “sleep camel”. I hadn’t realized just how tired I’d gotten. I was planning on writing something last night, but I ended up going to bed early instead.
I do have some things saved up, and I’ll write about them over the next day or so. Things should regularize when we actually get both of us up here. I’m really missing Flo, and yes, even the cat. Talking on the phone just doesn’t substitute for real contact.