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An eleventh-hour grant will allow this website to continue unabated. I thank you, and the Planet thanks you. Potential readers, however, may not *stifles guffaws*
We’re moved into our new digs, across town from the old place, and are unpacking and settling in nicely. All of our fellow travelers are alive and well. Special thanks to [...]

Jobhunting, frankly, sucks. Most everyone knows that. Unless you’re part of an in-demand industry like healthcare, you’re gonna be a while looking.
Right now, I don’t have a car, so I’m limited to establishments along the bus route. Fortunately, the public transportation in this part of the country isn’t too bad. The job market, though, is [...]

Sooooo, where was I? Oh yeah, leaving New York State. Good idea.
I have visited NYC twice…hate it. Makes Chicago look and sound tidy. The rest of the state revolves around the city and its needs…Albany being a haven for suckerfish and other percentage-shavers, as well as clueless current Governor David Patterson. Rochester politics are a [...]

New York, I never loved thee. Most of the time it was quite the opposite. Even when I was younger and my family spent a summer in Avoca, trying to get established, I didn’t like you much.
This despite the rolling hills, the foothills of the Adirondacks, which I loved to wander. I wasn’t unconscious of [...]

Well…we made it. The trip officially started October 27 at @4:30 pm EST and ended 10/30 @5:00 pm MST. It covered all or parts of the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, and took a little over 48 hours actual driving time.
I had to drive a little [...]

…but then Orthodontia isn’t my field. We’re getting ready to once again sally forth and roll across this country of ours, a journey that I’ve enjoyed immensely in the past.
This will be the first time we’ve employed outside movers, and easily the largest-scale move of the three we’ve accomplished. We humans, the pets, and various [...]

Having just paid the deposit on the movers and rental car, I can safely say that our move is official. On my 48th birthday, October 29, we’ll take possession of the premises in Arizona and start moving in our kit and kaboodle.
Her youngest is coming along to help with the move and to vacation for [...]

It looks like a move is in my immediate future. Due in part to the problems with this complex, the condition of the rented space, and the management thereof, we’ve elected/been invited not to renew our lease. The ceiling falling in was a big push in that direction, and the lack of care afterward was the [...]