The Packing Olympics

--- Lorna Weaver wrote:
> Can't seem to get away, huh?
>
> You'll be back! It is your curse for hating it. You
> might as well like it or you'll never get to leave.
>
> I have finally come to appreciate the area. There
> could be worse places to live, like Fallon.
>
> Lorna

Yeah, VERY FUNNY Lorna! ;o) Actually Perth, Australia was ... well, the city itself was just fine but the suburbs, Gawwwd, don't get me started about the dimly-lit, in-bred 'burbs of western Australia. They don't even have Mall-Worts, or Asda or anything and the locals just sit in their Fords and drink. (I really, really miss 17% alcohol wine).

Well, folks, it's been a mind-numbing 27 days in Reno, Nevada. That's 17 business days my Toyota was sitting disembowelled while Glen of "Blazing Wrenches" (I'm NOT making this up) cursed at it. Now, FINALLY it appears to be running quite smoothly. WHAT A GOAT FUCK!!!

Tonight I packed over half my stuff in the Toy, excluding my antique kitchen table, my newly recovered mtn. bike and a half-dozen boxes of books and misc. If packing were an Olympic event I'm sure I could get at least a bronze. I can pretty much fit a three-bedroom house inside a Honda!!!

Tomorrow is the 750-mile run to Seattle. Just in time too, as the rental share I'm looking at on Friday was about to be rented to somebody else. Then job hunting, filing for a little U.I. with the U.S. Forest Circus, and maybe seeing a doctor about filing against them for my screwed-up right foot and knee which the bastards should have paid to fix way back when.

Bon jour,

-- Mz M.

P.S. I'm just bustin' with pride over thoughtful Londoners so had to add this. I really hope the Guardian doesn't sue me.



George Bush's state visit to Britain in November 2003
Two anti-Bush protesters make their feelings known.
Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA