Logistics Planning, and Butterfly Moments

The enthusiasm over accepting a new job is still there; the reality of relocation logistics begin to set in. I can see My Little Bride, our faithful cat, and me in our living room in our new digs1, having an aperitivo, and watching teevee.

Making the vision come to pass is our pressing task now.

My last day at the current job is 9/5. My first day on the new job, in Clarksburg WV, is 9/8. Three weeks from now. I’ll be living in hotels initially, and the current plan is for me to secure decent living quarters for MLB, and FC2 When that happens, we hired lumpers strip our current digs,the POD people move them to West Virginia, leaving enough behind for MLB, while she turns out the lights on our current WorldHQ, and prepares it for sale.

The blessing of home ownership can also be a curse. With the housing doom and gloom market, I wonder how long it will take to sell this place. We want to be somewhere else; I hope somebody wants as fervently to be here.

Que Sera, Sera.

-k-


1 Wherever they wind up to be.

2 Faithful Cat.

Short Timer

New horizons beckon, a job offer has been received, and I have accepted.

Particulars to follow, before I get to that What have I done with my life? phase that sets in with every change of jobs.

A relocation is in the offing with the new gig; without giving away too much, we’ll be relocating to the only state in the union that starts with “West”.

The excitement begins!

-k-

Dampened Fireworks

Back home, and catching up on news, I see that there were several fireworks accidents here in NoVA last night.

The one that will get the most press is the one on the National Mall; second will be the one in Vienna VA, where SWMBO and I spent many memorable Fourths, before our gracious host and hostess moved to West Virginia, as detailed here.

I wonder how many draconian regulations will issue from these two accidents, probably from the Federal level1. Just wait until next July 4, when we’ll be treated with computer simulations of fireworks on the JumboTron.

Happy Cyber-Birthday, America.

-k-

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1 I’ve been personally involved in fireworks accidents myself. I blame the introduction of $4.99 per case Old Milwaukee, in the days of my misspent youth.

Home from the Hills

The West Virginia trip was a 100% authenticated blast. Our host and hostess are about as laid back as we are; we were shown our room, bathroom, location of such things as coffee, etc, and told to make ourselves at home. And we did.

Last night, we had the traditional beer drinking, grilling, bocce ball playing, fireworks watching experience. SWMBO and I left for the trip back to NoVA around noon or so today, and were one turn from our homestead when work butted in intervened. So I got a half-day vacation, my phone assistance to coworkers counting as an official time at bat and all.

We also broke in our new GPS device, to see how it behaved in semi-familiar territory. The digitized female GPS voice has been named Diana. I didn’t heed her U-turn advice where there was no place nor need to execute such a maneuver, but other than that, she did a stand up job.

-k-

How to Clean up Iraq

From one of SWMBO’s merry e-mail jokesters:

The Pentagon announced today the formation of a new 500-man
elite fighting unit called the U.S. REDNECK SPECIAL
FORCES (USRSF)

These North Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia,
Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia,
Louisiana, Texas and Tennessee boys
will be dropped into Iraq and have been given ONLY
the following facts about Terrorists:

1. The season opened today.
2. There is no limit.
3. They taste just like chicken.
4. They don’t like beer, pickups, country music or Jesus.
5. They are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the death
of Dale Earnhardt.

This mess in Iraq should be over IN A WEEK.

There may be something to that.

-k-

Chipper in West Virginia

West Virginia’s lone potato chip manufacturer is abandoning its low-fat frying recipe after objections from its customers. These customers’ objections translated to a 6% drop in sales.

And the money quote from the article:

But the new chip drew immediate reactions from customers who said if they wanted healthy, they wouldn’t be eating chips.

Very well put.

Good gravy, you can order a three-pound box of these chips for a measly $8.00 delivered. Wonder if they’d be good smothered in gravy? I may have to activate the tbbs-land test kitchen and try that out.

-k-

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