Out in the West Texas Town of El Paso…
Well, we made it. We actually came in at about 1:00 Wednesday morning, and have been trying to get situated ever since. Just a hair over 33 hours from there to here (well, the car was running for 33 hours; it wasn’t all drive time).I learned one very important lesson: California is too damned tall. Seriously. It took us an entire day to get from Redding to Riverside. And — with apologies to anyone reading this from the area — Central California is just damned boring to drive through. Oregon was nice. Arizona was, well, at least the scenery changed. I was too damned tired to pay attention to New Mexico, but I know it’s about the same as Arizona.
Come to think of it, once you get past the windmills around Indio, you can’t hardly tell by the scenery whether you’re in California, Arizona, or New Mexico. But at least there’s mountains and the road curves a little bit. Maybe I’m a little harsh — there were some olive trees (an orchard? a grove? what the hell do you call a field of olive trees?), and we saw a couple of bi-planes crop dusting, something you don’t see much of in the city.
Anyways, I’m starting back in at work today, and I’m a little anxious; I haven’t even thought about programming in over a week, let alone done anything with it. That’s a long time for me. Always thought it’d be good to take a break from it, and maybe it would be if it hadn’t been such a long one. Just haven’t really had much of a chance between moving and getting set up and taking care of things.
Okay, I need to run so I can start getting ready. And to smoke – always got to smoke. (If I think of anything else worth posting about the trip, I might add it tomorrow; but for now I think this is about all that’s fit to print.)
Lots to Write
Well, this is the last Friday I’m spending in this house — we’re moving sometime either Sunday or Monday. I haven’t written a damned thing in here in a long time, but here’s a quick over view (and it’s going to be about all I’m going to write for now):New job, working for Philips Electronics back in El Paso — actually, they bought out a company I used to work for, and I’m going back to work there.
I went back there for a couple of weeks a while ago — well, I got back this past Sunday — and it’s amazing what a difference two weeks of sunshine makes in your outlook. Anyways…
The job’s pretty cool; lot of work, and long hours, but it’s good stuff with lots of room to grow.
Got a long road trip coming up — hit I-5 down to L.A., turn right on I-10, second star to the right, straight on til morning. Planning on hitting somewhere around Sacramento for the first night, then Phoenix the second night. Should be able to have lunch (or an early dinner) with the family back home by Wednesday at the latest.
Right now everything’s a mess though — still trying to pack, trying to clear crap out, trying to get a moving sale set up so we can get a little bit of extra cash on hand for the trip. Or at least get rid of stuff so we don’t have to go through the trouble of loading it up and haul it somewhere ourself.
Anyways, I’d like to say I’ll be posting lots of cool stuff from the road, pics of cool places and lots of little stories about riding with my wife, a dog, and a cat. I know myself though; don’t hold your breath.
Got to go for now though — long day, need to crash.
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