Delays, Delays
Yep, we’re still in St. Joe. It’s a long story, but to avoid tedium I’ll just mention the high (low) spots. When we took the RV out of storage, we noticed that the tag had expired, so we stayed over till Monday (which was a good idea anyway since I wasn’t finished cleaning out the fridge and doing all the last minute house-closing-up things), and I took all our paperwork to the license bureau. Well, it turns out that they had no record of our ever getting the plates 2 years ago (it was a 2-year license — we weren’t that late renewing!) and the title is still in Kansas. So, rather than ask someone here to go get tags and mail them to us once the title arrives, we decided to just stay since the clerk said it usually only takes a couple of days. That meant moving into the RV park, since we didn’t really want to impose on WalMart’s parking lot for more than one or two nights while we moved stuff from the house to the RV. The title still hadn’t arrived as of today, so we will stay here another two nights, and hope it arrives tomorrow.
So, the Travel Calendar has been adjusted to show the newly revised schedule. We still hope to get to Palm Bay in time for Thanksgiving, but we won’t stop in Nashville as long as we’d planned. The good part of all this is that we’ll be in the Joplin area over the weekend, so have a better chance of seeing more cousins there who work during the week.
At least the weather is decent, if cold. Today is clear and bright and crisp — a perfect Fall day.
Since we’re staying put for longer than originally planned, I’ve dragged out my big computer to work on. Here’s a picture showing the difference between the size of this big iMac and the little netbook I’ve been using for the past couple of days.
The little guy is fine in a pinch, but for serious work of course the big machine is much nicer, and has all my favorite apps on it. Getting to my data isn’t a problem since I keep most of that on an external hard disk I can plug into Phil’s MacBook Pro, and access from the netbook over the local network, but since I’m running Ubuntu Linux on the netbook, the apps don’t work there. I try to save whatever I can in cross-platform formats, like OpenOffice and JPEG/PNG, but there are a few things I really have to do on the Mac, like mindmapping. But that’s a story for my techie blog, not here. It’s enough to say that the netbook works quite well and I’m really happy I got it, especially since I got quite a deal on it from Woot.com, which had them on a one-day special for just under $200! (Full retail price was about $300.) Besides, their website always has some really funny copy, anyway.
So, now I guess I finally need to finish that refrigerator and turn off the water at the house. We’ll get out of here some time, I’m sure!
