Great page Jim, and nice insights. Altho my retirement move wasn't as large
as yours ( just 1 17' U-haul and an 8' trailer with limited amount of furniture),
it rings a bell. 2500mi. bus ride to Toronto, immediate 24hr load-up with my
son, and leaving after loading Saturday, 2500 mi. saga back here with a
misloaded truck that would periodically go into a shimmy and visions of
turning over, straight thru with occasional naps in the truck to save on motel
costs, unloading myself with a 2 wheeler on Tuesday, returning the truck and
trailer on Wednesday, and hopping on the bus for a 2500 mi. trip back to
Toronto in order to retrieve my car. Then another 2500mi. back here straight
thru. My son said it took him a week to recover just from loading. I avoid
thinking about how nutso I am and wonder how I survived. I told him us older
people have more stamina. What-tha-hell I'm not going to stop living on the
edge just because I'm at retirement age.
What is it about bowling alleys and new starts. A friend of mine returned to
Canada after spending a good part of his life in a NGO aid project in Africa
with his 2 children who were born there, and bought a bowling alley in Ottawa.
His sons had never seen snow before and were more used to veldts than
urban NA culture and became quite exotic personas to their schoolmates.
At the time I met him, some 20 years ago they were struggling and hoping
that bowling alleys wouldn't go the way of drive-in movies. Oregon to Kansas
must be almost as much a relocation. Hang in, the gods do smile on us
madmen, altho not easily, and not always in the way we expect.
Lawrence
To paraphrase another sig:
Live life as if you were never going to die.
Love as tho you've never been hurt,
Sing and dance as tho no one is listening or watching.
> Greetings;
>
> After spending the last few (nearly 4) weeks sorting out the carnage from
> a Windoze induced system disaster... I'm getting back to being not
> significantly more behind than I was before the whole thing blew up in my
> face...
>
> Of course in the interim, I missed VCF 5 (snarkle, ramfle, mutter) and who
> knows what else...
>
> Most people who have claimed items from the Computer Garage 'Garage Sale'
> should have received them by now, thought the most recent three or four
> are still awaiting transport to the post. (my bad)
>
> And... still trying to remain above water, there are some new updates on
> the 'Garage Sale' page.
>
> http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw/Gsale
>
> And, since some of you have asked... There is also a link from the sale
> page to a 'State of the Garage' page, which attempts to detail the current
> state of affairs in my world.
>
> Note that I am still writing on this, so consider it to be in flux for the
> time being.
>
> Regards;
> -jim
> ---
> jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com
> The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw
>
>
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