Pollywogs!

My final blog entry. (I can’t tell if I am jinxing myself or not)

(aka Wed. afternoon open thread)

Kelley is on strict orders to wait at least 3 months to re-marry.

Nice that Immix uses GSM phones, and the V180 is a quadband. I’ll be able to get a prepaid card at a 7/11 in NZ and have basic communications.

We finally have a hard copy of an abridged version of our manual. It has taken so freaking long. (Imagine me speaking very slowly, deliberately, and with a feverish gleam in my eye while you read that last sentence…) No wiring chart, no schematics, no operating instructions beyond the PLC, no schedules, no FAQ…(sob)…Staples printed it, they did a reasonable job for $30 a piece I guess…

I need to find a converter in the airport, at least changing the plug. I’ll be traveling about 24 hours, 19 in the air, through State College to Washington, DC, to LAX, to Aukland, to Christchurch…and on the way back I get to do it by myself as my parents are having a one week layover in Hawaii…you know that show Amazing Race? It sums up everything I hate about traveling. If there is one thing I hate worse than horses, its probably traveling. Something about not knowing exactly where to go, what to do, how you are going to do it…makes my stomach do somersaults…I feel like I’m going to be playing the Amazing Race…

Its hard trying to shut down a business for two or three weeks. Its amazing how many loose ends you collect, how much you have to remember…its also sorta liberating, making a short list of ‘things I have to worry about when I get back’. Knowing I don’t have to think about them for two weeks at least is great…

I guess I’ve run out of nervous energy. Heading home soon to pack. Like I told Kel, the most dangerous place and time to fly is takeoffs and landings, especially with smaller airplanes and airports. Meh, knock on wood, let the good spirits out :) (and here I thought touch wood was just a dirty phrase that I found amusing as a teenager…)

Excuse me there for a second, the power went out, had to troubleshoot some shit…turns out my m0n0wall box (looks like something you’d find here) had a keyboard come loose, and I didn’t tell it ‘halt on no errors’ (meaning, fuck the keyboard), so I sat here on my thumb wondering why my internet didn’t work.

Ok thats it thats all he wrote!