Good morning everyone.
It’s currently 52 degrees and sunny. It’s supposed to cloud up a little and the expected high is only 73. Summer is getting a very late start around here.
I was baptized Catholic but never went through confirmation, as my parents divorced around the time that happened and my mother just never got around to it. So, I only have my three given names; my middle name is the same middle name as my mother and her mother, and I think, my great Oma too.
Well, the trip over to Wenatchee was frenetic. I left here on Thursday morning and arrived there around 1:00 in the afternoon. The drive over the passes was beautiful and relatively easy. There were a couple of folks who wouldn’t move out of the way on Blewett Pass, and I managed to eventually get past most of them. In our state, it’s illegal to hold up more than five cars and you are to use pull-outs to let people pass. One bozo decided that didn’t apply to her and was going 10 miles under the limit. Unfortunately, I was stuck behind her and several other cars until I got out onto highway 2 where I was finally able to pass the nitwit.
Anyway, got to the office, realized I had left my power cord for my laptop at home and was frantically searching stores for one. One of the people who actually works in that office happened to be in AND, thankfully, had the same kind of power source I needed. He graciously allowed me to use it on Thursday and Friday until I left. After that, all hell broke lose with regard to getting funding reallocations, requisitions, and funding documents into the system and approved by all parties. But, I managed to get that all done, while still replying to emails and doing other things. so that’s a win. I left that office and checked into my hotel. It’s right on the Wenatchee River and there’s a nice footpath along there, so I took a good walk and then came back to the hotel for some dinner and a cocktail. I was back in my room by 7:30 and drifted off to sleep around 8:00. I woke up at 10:30, and then went back to sleep until 3:30. I showered, fixed myself up, made some coffee and logged into my computer. I went downstairs to get some eggs and fruit, and then packed my stuff up and headed to the office.
The rep from the moving company showed up yesterday and I have a bad, bad feeling the price will go up for our move. I can’t really exceed a certain amount, but he was pretty concerned about what he saw. And, of course, the folks who work in that office didn’t have stuff packed up which made things look a hundred times worse. I was pissed when I saw the mess. I’ve been telling them to pack since February! FEBRUARY! They’ve mainly managed to only pack their personal office stuff and not even all of that! There will be a come to Jesus meeting with everyone next week. They have one week to get EVERYTHING packed because the movers are arriving on the 18th. I am NOT helping them. I have an actual job to do too and I’m not cleaning that particular situation up.
After I took the mover through soon to be old location, I drove him over to the new location. The building is essentially empty so things should be very easy on that end.
I drove him back to the old location, took stickers upstairs that the mover wants us to use for designating what is moved, recycled, or disposed of, and then hit the road. Once again, the drive through the passes was pretty, so that was nice. I got home around 4:30 yesterday.
I get to make the trip all over again on Wednesday/Thursday for the punchlist inspection and I guess I will need to stop by the old location to whip them into shape if I don’t see movement. For this reason, I’m thinking I will need to drive over on Wednesday. I shouldn’t need to be riding herd on these people.
I think today I will dink around in my yard. It will depend on the weather. But, I’m thinking digging in the dirt and putting some life in the ground will burn up some of my irritation at this whole move.
