Balls and Walnuts
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It all fit!
I didn’t get to sleep until after 4 AM. Kept thinking about space-filling with irregular units, each shaped like file boxes, luggage, backpacks, computer components, and assorted Sta-in-Pet tarantula cages. Oh! And don’t forget carriers for the cats and ferrets. Honestly, I couldn’t imagine how it could all fit into our Camry, not unless I stuffed things to the ceiling, and that can’t be good for visibility.
And I had to wait most of today to get down to business. Couldn’t load up the car in the hot sun, so it had to wait until past sundown. We had dinner at a French bistro in downtown Santa Rosa called Rendezvous, had a decent if pricey meal, then came home and I got down to business.
Surprisingly roomy, these Camrys. I might even be able to fit Jake’s gaming computer, though that might be pushing our luck. I’ll see how things look once the rest of our bags are in the car, come morning.
The plan is to be on the road by 9, which means B-field by 2:30, 3 at the latest. Then we need to hope that our landlords for temporary housing don’t spot me loading up the apartment with about 20 Sta-in-Pet carriers containing arachnids of various temperaments. Karen likes the nasty ones, what can I say.
So begins the next phase of our lives. I miss the cool weather of the North Coast, and I’m even going to miss the relative cool of Santa Rosa (we’d have to move to Vegas or the Mojave to find something more hellishly hot than Bakersfield). But I like the idea of being able to retire by 65 which, sad to say, probably wasn’t going to happen back in Crescent City*.
Now, if only I can get this idiotic tune out of my head . . .
D.
*There’s a reason why solo practitioners are a dying breed, and it’s called $$$. Or should I say, .00000$$$.
The Beverly Hillbillies tune?
Exactly.
I remember you had written previously that you needed a cooler climate, so I was surprised to read that you were moving to Bakersfield. Isn’t that like right next door to Hell? ;o)
I hope you like it there and wish you the best always.
I hate moving. I like being in a new place, but I dislike the packing and the moving and the packing and the moving and the packing and the…
Good luck with your move. May it go as smoothly as a move may go.