Packin’ and Preppin’

Short update today. Both Chris and his cat made it to Oregon in one piece. He’s currently sitting around an empty apartment, waiting for his stuff to eventually show up and hoping his car ever shows up. But he’s there. We’ve talked to him a few times since landing and he’s tired and ready to just get settled and be done with it already. He’s good.

This week I’ve been a royal pain in the ass to live with. I don’t do vacations – even working vacations – very well. I spend a lot of my time neurosing that I’m missing a deadline, or about to miss a deadline, or won’t be here when a client really needs me to pick up the phone, or won’t be here when that once-every-five-years megaproject calls happen. So I’ve spent a lot of this week fighting to clear my desk and get deliverables out the door, and Kristi’s spent a lot of this week trying to refrain from smothering me with a pillow.

All’s good now, though. Desk clear, email parked, neurosing down to a minimum. Now’s time for pack and prep.

We’ve got a long list of things – some big, most small – to do before we leave. And we’re knocking the list down. We have someone sitting the house, the pets are arranged for, the car’s tuned and oiled and fueled, and supplies are mostly laid in. Early Monday morning, we take Tuck over to the vet for kenneling, and then we hit the road for Oregon for a nine hour drive.

Been a while since we’ve had a really good road trip. We’re both looking forward to getting out of town for a bit and seeing Chris.

We’ll take photos, and if Internet access is to be found, there might be an R&K entry while we’re up there. Stay tuned!