No Thanks

Lots of dreams last night.  Knocked it outta the park on what was apparently a boundaries test-scenario: a friend (with whom I’ve had a political falling out IRL) was my new roommate, in the dream, but already knowing each other.  It was like in college: a big day when everyone moves into the dorms.  I …

Polar Dips and Cruise Ships

Laramie, Wyoming will see a low of -5 and a high of 15 on Monday.  I think we still have a mobile shower unit there; I was texting with Deb, expressing condolences.  She said the cold wasn’t as bad as having had to work with Ralph and Will earlier this summer.  She’s a tough ole …

YMCA

The port where we dropped off the two trucks for transport to Hawaii was bustling, but LAX is a ghost town. Very unusual. I’ve flown out of the Southwest terminal at LAX dozens of times, in my dealership transport days, and I’ve never seen it so unoccupied, from ticketing to gate. TSA at security was …

Tracker Jacker Venom

So my friend Julie has a 23 year old son who shared a text-meme on his Facebook page that went like this: “Aside from Trump being an asshole and Joe being a bumbling idiot trying to repeat phrases being beat into him by his coaches, the main difference between the two is this: Trump says …

Seventeen

I guess the emotional obstruction of the U-Box in the driveway was too demanding to leave room for much else.  But now that it’s gone, and the house is almost empty, it’s occurring for the first time in this move that I have lots and lots of feelings about this house, through the years.  Initially …

Giant Turtle Blessing

My brother recounted a wonderful thing that, due to time zones, he sent last night but I didn’t read until this morning. He goes down to the beach every evening to splash and play. (Nick and I are seared with jealousy, hearing this.) Last night he went down, and heard a girl say his name. …

Meritocracy and Idiocracy

I love how we’re all just living our lives as if Kamala Harris is a perfectly reasonable person to be on the public stage, and doesn’t need to be chest-kicked into some kind of enormous Sparta pit.  I was watching her grill, or attempt to grill, Amy Coney Barret in a little clip last night.  …

Shifting Gears

I have so much news!  In the last two days, we’ve begun to gain the upper hand on this arm wrestling match with the calendar, as our Hawaii deadline approaches.  It’s crazy how much we’re trying to accomplish before then, and even crazier it’s panning out.   So, two days ago Nick obtained his Class …

Just Kvetching

Hawaii Dep’t of Ag bugaboo permits supposedly in the mail, supposedly overnighted, and supposedly correct.   CDL permit prep going great!  We lounge-studied last night until Nick cried uncle, covering all of airbrakes, all of combination vehicles, and a good chunk of general knowledge.  It’s fun to go over this material with someone who shares …

Worth Keeping

So the other interesting thing about moving to Hawaii is that it necessitates a total, unflinching scrutiny of the things we own, all the way down to the last safety pin.   I’ve done moves before where you start out with good intentions but then you run low on time, and suddenly you’re just throwing …