Sink full of dishes and a cold draft on my feet.

Trip Start Nov 30, 2007
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The first real challenge of any trip, or at least any trip I take for more than a few days is the battle on the home front. It gets a little harder for longer trips, but there's just generally a lot of work to be done so that I don't come back to find that my apartment is insect-infested, with a bill collector named Tank standing outside my door.


I'm writing this in my living room, and I just noticed now that the air conditoner isn't taped over, for instance. I've never used mine - I can't even figure out how to set it to "cold", actually, but every winter, it's an open hole to the outside, and if I don't want to live through the joys of frozen pipes again, I need to tape a garbage bag over it - which is incredibly decorative.


As a nerd/nomad hybrid (nerdmad?), I need my tech toys working, which means pulling movies for the plane, and loading my MP3 player, and putting maps on my GPS *sigh*
*sigh*
 . Which is the worst part, since Garmin's software is horrible - at least the serial-port version that I have is. (Seriously, serial ports? I needed to buy a serial-to-USB converter to hook it up to an actual modern computer. At least the software didn't come on 5 1/4" floppies.) The GPS software is a fussy beast of a thing, crashing if there's anything else running - I have to reboot my computer and set the priority to "high" to download a map, and even then it crashes around 80% of the time, which is frustrating because I'm sending the map at 9600 baud - again, with 1986 technology - so it takes a couple of hours.


So anyways, I'm mostly just trying the blog software out, while ranting about trip prep and putting off the things I should be doing, like washing my bathroom floor.

Maybe I should go do that now.
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