Oh yeah... On Saturday, we accepted an offer on our house. Assuming all goes well (PLEASE let all go well), we'll close on July 29th. It's going to be a long 6 weeks, but it's fucking grand to finally be moving forward instead of stuck in place...
Sorry I haven't been updating lately. You'd think that, given all the time I have on my hands, I should be writing up a storm... I just find myself with not much to say, I guess. This is a kind of strange time for me now, a weird limbo of living in a house that's been more or less stripped of all of our most personal stuff and which has to be kept in show condition all the time - I spend my days chasing the dog around with the vacuum and Swiffering as if the Queen were coming over any second to take high tea off my kitchen tiles.
My car has been in the shop for the past three weeks, so I've been sort of stranded here except for the times when my wonderful friends have come and rescued me for a few hours. I've done a massive amount of walking; the resulting fitness aspect has admittedly been a silver lining to the whole experience. It's not exactly the way I'd have chosen to kick-start a health regimen, but I'm (mostly) not complaining. I've also had the unmitigated pleasure of making acquaintance with San Diego's mass transit system. The nearest bus stop is, sadly, 2 miles from where I live (ref: all the damned walking I've been doing), but I survived the trip there and back, as well as a couple more miles of walking once I got where I was going that day. My Achilles tendon is killing me, but my leg muscles are toit like a toiger.
Other than that, my main entertainments have been online poker (I won $90 on my birthday - o Happy Day!) and watching my own little Wild Kingdom episode out on the back patio... A hummingbird made a nest on the Xmas lights strung up around our spa, so I've been checking them out up close and personally. How many people ever get to do that? I've taken a bunch of pictures and putting them up on my Flickr account.
Oh yeah - by the way, we have a Flickr account now! Click to check it out. So far, it's mostly pics of the birds, Indy, our GORGEOUS MUST-SEE PENASQUITOS HOME! UPGRADES GALORE!, and our "going-away" party (if only I COULD go away, already!). I just bought the "Pro" account, though, so I'll probably be sticking all kinds of random shit up there soon.