Getting Ready to Be Moving Along

Almost. Going into the last two weeks of the job; my last day here is the end of the month. I'll still be available virtually by remote connection, but next month will be using up all the leftover vacation and sick leave time.

At the office, working on finishing up several projects, including documenting settings, etc. It's unclear who will be supporting things, but I want to leave all the necessary information to get them started. And I am slowly cleaning out 23 years of stuff out of the office, along with the same amount of disk files that need to be deleted or saved.

On the home front, our house sale is waiting for the final underwriting of the buyer's loan. They seem to be a bit backlogged, so it's taking a few days longer than we thought. As for the new house, the builder has accepted our offer, and we've locked in the financing at 4 1/2%, which is a pretty good rate.

So we've planned on moving day to be the first week in June. Have arranged for a truck (from the www.u-pack.com guys, and some bodies to load it). We've made arrangements to give away some unneeded furniture to friends and relatives. Just about everything is in boxes piled high in the garage. A bit more packing is on the agenda tomorrow.

We're making progress in the move. Exciting times.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Lots of changes. Our house is sold, and closes the middle of this month. We're staying there (with the permission of the new owner, of course) until the end of the month.

We went back to Utah last weekend, and found a nice house close to the Jensen's (daughter's family). It's actually a ten-minute walk away. A nice one-story 'rambler' with a full basement; three bedrooms upstairs, and two downstairs. One of the two downstairs bedrooms will be transformed into a nice scrapbook room for Pam (and visitors), the other will probably become an office area for me. The basement also has room for a family room that will be finished later.

Pam and I turned in our retirement (that's a funny word in my mind -- retirement is supposed to be for old people) papers yesterday. We've arranged for the moving truck and a couple of strong bodies to pack it neatly. The new house is going through the usual escrow stuff (inspections, loans, etc).

And there are boxes everywhere in our current house. We are about 80% packed, I think, but Saturday will be another packing day, including (probably) the rest of the garage and the office.

Trying to wind up some projects at work. Some are progressing well, others are just time-consuming.

Lots of changes.