Guilty as charged. I am one of those guys who likes my stuff; it’s one of the main reasons we are not full-time RVers. In order to get the garage and library ready for Darryll, and not trash the house in the process, we checked online for portable storage units. We decided to order one from 1-800-Pack-Rat. They were slightly less expensive than PODS, but the main factor was their ability to deliver a 16-foot long unit on Wednesday this coming week. That will give us Thursday, Friday, and Saturday to clear enough stuff out of the garage to store the materials for Darryll and give him the space he needs to work.
Linda got a call from Butch at Service Motors to let her know they were back home from the Crosley Automobile Club national meet in Wauseon, Ohio and to see if she was available to come down tomorrow to finish up some critical accounting tasks related to the sale of most of their businesses assets. The purchasers were in Wauseon for the rally and arrived at the business as I was chatting with Butch. They plan to load all of the stuff they have bought into the five vehicles they brought with them and leave sometime on Tuesday, so Linda will be there mid-morning tomorrow and probably be home by 9:00 PM. It will be a 15 hour day for her; 8 hours of driving and 7 hours of accounting, but she can/will do it. I would normally go along, if for no other reason than to keep her company and share the driving, but I expect to have landscapers here tomorrow (and the rest of the week) and need to be here to interact with them. Besides, there isn’t anything useful I can do at Service Motors at the moment so I would just be in the way and twiddling my thumbs.
We were both tired this morning and slept in a little later than normal. That meant a later breakfast, which meant we skipped lunch and had an early dinner. That, in turn allowed me to have dinner before going to our monthly Ham radio club meeting in South Lyon.
The morning overcast gave way to scattered clouds and blue skies on pleasant northwest winds, bringing cooler temperatures and lower humidity. It was a perfect day for sitting on the (north facing) deck and doing sit down things, and that is exactly what we did. Linda spent some time reading Veganomicon while I finished up a couple of blog post drafts and reviewed the SLAARC/WP website in advance of having to demonstrate it this evening for the ham radio club. The site still needs work. Some pages still need content, I found a few spelling errors, and I still need to resize photos so they take up less disk space and load faster. The login feature is still working and the roster/database still displays correctly, if somewhat inelegantly. But it’s functional enough to give the club members a preview and I will only demonstrate one photo gallery with a limited number of images so it shouldn’t be too sluggish.
By mid-afternoon it was warm enough that I decided to work in my office and get a few more blog posts uploaded to our WordPress site. Linda made a “pasta e fagioli” recipe from Veganomicon and added some chopped dark leafy greens she had on hand. She needed a dry white wine for the recipe and opened our bottle of Semi-Dry Riesling from Chateau Chantal, a gift from our daughter’s recent trip to the Traverse City area. It was a little dry for my taste as a before dinner wine but paired very nicely with the meal.
I got to South Lyon just ahead of the 6:30 PM start of our South Lyon Area Amateur Radio Club (SLAARC) monthly meeting. The business meeting was short. We then had a lengthy presentation/discussion of our ARRL Field Day participation followed by a short preview of the new WordPress website. It was generally well received and I got a few good suggestions during the discussion.
When I got home around 9 PM we had chocolate cake (vegan, of course) with raspberry sauce and relaxed for a while before turning in for the night.