Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Things are here
So yesterday was a big day for us; on Tuesday, with no warning at all the movers rang and said “can we deliver your stuff tomorrow, please”. This was a surprise as we’d been told it’d be a few weeks, last time I spoke to our broker, and had no other updates at all. Still,…
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Not being an audiophile.
So, I picked up a slightly sad Technics SL-6 turntable off ebay. It was my post-move treat. A new turntable to replace the two that I’d sold in the UK. As we left I’d been prodding at the idea of a linear tracking turntable, just because it was interesting conceptually. Then I discovered these entertainingly…
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Fun with Bureaucracy
So today I had the fun and excitement of transferring the title on our shiny new (decade old) hybrid from its previous (Oregonian) owner to us. The whimpering you heard was us paying fees and taxes on a decade old car. A trip to the bank and $500 later we had shiny, shiny Washington plates…
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But Monday is the best day of the week.
Can I just share that it’s quite frustrating that whilst we have the new car out front I can’t title it tomorrow because the local DOL (equiv. DMV / DVLA) is closed Mondays. So instead I’m going to take it for an oil change.
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Brrm, brrm.
So, yesterday being Friday, and the scheduled car-purchase day, Kathryn dropped me at the (conveniently close) Amtrak station and I got my first experience of US trains. Yes, it started from the station 20 minutes late, but it was a pretty relaxing ride, and some of the scenery was just beautiful. Despite many promises along…
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How’s it going?
It’s kind of hard for me to judge how it’s going at the moment. I’m still waiting for references to arrive, so each day is kind of blurring into the next one as I trade between couch and dining table, finding little tasks for me to do. I’ve got a record deck on the way…
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In theory
…pyoor.org is back up and running. Of course, that is just a theory.
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As planned, then not quite as planned
Not that there was a plan. But yesterday actually seemed to go okay. Spent the evening offering my nursey services for free. There’s a volunteer run clinic here in Oly, for people who’ve got no health coverage. And I spent the evening shadowing another nurse, although realistically I could have stepped in to start work…
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Making it happen (slowly)
So things are plodding along. I’d like to make things happen faster, it feels bad being at home while Kathryn’s out working. I feel like I should be doing something more productive with my day, but until we make decisions like “long term where will we be living” and “we want our house to look…
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I cannot explain just how much I’m missing my music collection. Every time I go to listen to something on the tiny, tiny collection of stuff I remembered to stick on my ‘phone before we emigrated I either discover it’s not there, or then am disappointed that it sounds like it’s being played on teeny…