Still Not Dead: No connectivity for a week while on vacation
I hope everyone had a great, not overly stuffed Thanksgiving. After a week driving from San Diego across the Mojave, Joshua Tree National Forest, Owens Valley, up through Death Valley, around Mono Lake, and home (1113 miles on the rental car), I am back at Jen's house in Rancho Cordova for a really terrific Thanksgiving. Duncan is home, which is also wonderful.
I made the drive with my brother-in-law from England, Doug, who is here in the States for a marked-change-of-pace November - he spent the last week of October, approximately, with Clifton in East Lansing (escaping just before the snow), went down to stay with my friend Glee in San Diego (arriving just after the fires got under control), and then he and I drove up here for Thanksgiving.
We'll drive a largely empty little rental truck from Cameron Park to Mountain View Saturday, unloading the last of my personal stuff out of the house in CP into my apartment storage locker*. ___I am looking for volunteers to help, if anyone local wants to spend an hour helping, followed by ice-cream or some other snack. Contact me at 916-718-1982 if interested!!___
This will enable Jen and Bryan to move into the CP house the first weekend in December. (after a between-tenants thorough cleaning and carpet cleaning!!) I go off to DC on work travel on Tuesday and he goes to San Francisco for the last part of his trip, a few days in SF indulging in walking, music, and art.
(*I will have stuff stored in the garage & basement in CP, as I don't have room for everything in Mountain View. We did fill a 6-cubic-yard dumpster and sent 5 pick-up loads of stuff to Goodwill, out of the stuff I had left in the house when I moved, "To be sorted out later." The folks living in the house moved everything that wasn't theirs into the unused Master Bedroom, and if I had taken a picture you would have seen that the room was filled almost waist-high, with one narrow path to get to the bathroom where the litter-boxes were. When we leave Saturday morning it will be completely empty.
Jen and Bryan are remarkably heartless but kind assistant sorters and pitchers-out. Bryan's mom, who manages an apartment complex in Rancho, let us put 2 or 3 pick-up loads of recycling into her apartment complex's bin, as it's usually mostly empty. So much goodness happened even though probably a metric boatload of stuff got carted away.)
More later, when real life is sorted a little better and I actually have real connectivity more often!
I made the drive with my brother-in-law from England, Doug, who is here in the States for a marked-change-of-pace November - he spent the last week of October, approximately, with Clifton in East Lansing (escaping just before the snow), went down to stay with my friend Glee in San Diego (arriving just after the fires got under control), and then he and I drove up here for Thanksgiving.
We'll drive a largely empty little rental truck from Cameron Park to Mountain View Saturday, unloading the last of my personal stuff out of the house in CP into my apartment storage locker*. ___I am looking for volunteers to help, if anyone local wants to spend an hour helping, followed by ice-cream or some other snack. Contact me at 916-718-1982 if interested!!___
This will enable Jen and Bryan to move into the CP house the first weekend in December. (after a between-tenants thorough cleaning and carpet cleaning!!) I go off to DC on work travel on Tuesday and he goes to San Francisco for the last part of his trip, a few days in SF indulging in walking, music, and art.
(*I will have stuff stored in the garage & basement in CP, as I don't have room for everything in Mountain View. We did fill a 6-cubic-yard dumpster and sent 5 pick-up loads of stuff to Goodwill, out of the stuff I had left in the house when I moved, "To be sorted out later." The folks living in the house moved everything that wasn't theirs into the unused Master Bedroom, and if I had taken a picture you would have seen that the room was filled almost waist-high, with one narrow path to get to the bathroom where the litter-boxes were. When we leave Saturday morning it will be completely empty.
Jen and Bryan are remarkably heartless but kind assistant sorters and pitchers-out. Bryan's mom, who manages an apartment complex in Rancho, let us put 2 or 3 pick-up loads of recycling into her apartment complex's bin, as it's usually mostly empty. So much goodness happened even though probably a metric boatload of stuff got carted away.)
More later, when real life is sorted a little better and I actually have real connectivity more often!