less than three weeks

[mmegaera]

So.  I’m still on schedule to hit the road on May 28th.  We’ve had the inspection, the things they wanted done that I can do or have done are done, and the condo association handyman will be here on Thursday to take care of the things that he needs to do.  The appraiser will be here on Friday.  And after that, it’s less than two weeks before closing.

I’ve begun buying traveling gear I don’t have already (not much, actually — I needed to replace my sleeping bag, among other things), some online (all of which should arrive by next week) and some in the store.

Oh, and here’s a picture of Merlin:

Yes, that’s his name.  If I ever have him painted green, then a Merlin is a small falcon.  In the meantime he’s named after a wizard 🙂   He’s a Ford Transit Connect, the short wheel base cargo version, which means he has two bucket seats and a 4′ x4′ x6′ space behind them.  He’s actually more fun to drive than you’d think he would be.

And my condo is filling up with boxes, which are gradually filling up with my belongings.  I packed up a good chunk of my sewing room yesterday, and I’m going to finish that today if I can.  My best friend’s daughter’s SO and another friend both work for grocery stores, so I am not hurting for packing boxes.

Nerves are starting to get to be a bit much.  Seventeen more days till closing, eighteen more till the movers get here, and nineteen more till I have to be out of the house.

Eep!

Mirrored from M.M. Justus -- adventures in the supernatural Old West.

Comments

[thnidu]

I can't see the emoji, because it's not in my font— it just appears as a box with the hex digits
01F
642
Not your fault, to be sure.

But that tells me it's Unicode 1F642 SLIGHTLY SMILING FACE.

[mmegaera]

Yeah, some things don't copy over when I mirror my posts. I guess that's just the breaks, because sometimes emojis are just necessary [g].

[thnidu]

Oh, it's not the mirroring. The fact that I got the Unicode point and looked up the corresponding emoji, and it was the right one, proves that the mirroring went OK. But I didn't have a font with that Unicode page, so my browser could only display what I tried to show: "I don't have this character, boss, but here's its hex value."

[mmegaera]

Ah. So it's your issue, not mine [g]. Which I believe you said in your original comment.

What sorta baffles me is that the way you phrase things seems to imply that you expect me to fix it.

[thnidu]

I'm sorry. I did say "Not your fault, to be sure," but plainly it wasn't sufficient.

[mmegaera]

Somehow the fact that you bring up these things you know aren't my fault to begin with makes me feel like you expect me to fix them.

Anyway, I think this horse is ready for the glue factory.

I'm starting to collect phone numbers for people I hope to get together with on my Long Trip, so if you'd like to email yours to me, I'd love to see you when I get to Philly. Email me at mmjustus at mmjustus dot com.