The Force-Air is gone and the wall is down but the noise continues. What lies behind the wall is a 2-story gym and they’re doing some radical conversion there though what exactly I don’t know because, once again, nobody tells people at my level these things. Nadine complains they don’t tell her either but I think they do and she just forgets. People do a lot of that around here. They should write shit down.
The noise from next door has plenty of competition from my own in the form of the constant cough I’ve had for a week now. It started as a bronchial infection and morphed into a head cold and thankfully the worst seems over but my breathing apparatus is left much-abused in its wake. All I can say is thank the FSM for OTC decongestants or I’d be sleepless in addition.
What else? My quarterly check came in on Tuesday at around 70% of what I expected for this time of year, which doesn’t bode well for future mobility. I sold off the composter yesterday which helped offset that at least a little. I joined AAA – didn’t want to, but they have the best maps. (As of next Tuesday I’ll also be eligible for AARP membership but let’s not even go there now, please.) At work I designed and posted the first draft of a site I’d been worried I wouldn’t get to in time.
And that, I’m afraid, is about it. It’s been a surprisingly slow week for one so soon before I leave town; my to-do list for the period ending Sunday is still largely blank, which seems unnatural. Good planning on my part and plenty of time to have already accomplished the important things? Say it ain’t so.
I’ve conferred with both my brothers in New England and they’re expecting me towards the end of June, so no worries there. Some friends along the route ditto, though I do need to contact a bunch more. Before Facebook I wouldn’t have thought much about this because I don’t keep in touch well and wouldn’t have known where everybody was. Now I have a nationwide network, or something like it. Hooray for progress!
Tomorrow is my final acupuncture treatment, then a
swift
drop-by at the AAA office to get maps and camping guides for the entire
country
(except Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi – I want nothing to do
with those states on general principle) and after that lunch with
my friend and former Lilith board-member Sharene. It’s
quite possibly the last time I will ever see Sharene,
who far as I know is going to remain Texas-bound for her life.
It’s odd to find myself considering this more and more: who of my friends here I will ever see again. Audra said the other day we probably won’t, though that’s because she plans to move to Ireland and return to the US only rarely. But of my other peeps, how many of them are likely to ever leave TX? Not bloody many. It’s just that kind of place. For my first four years here I was pretty sure it had me for good too, even if I do wonder now what the hell I was thinking.
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