Home again... and out of the pan!

Drove the entire 1000-mile-plus route home in one stretch (if we don't count the half hour walk at the halfway point). I actually got on the road in Pearland at 5:45 am and found myself in Lubbock around 3:15 pm or so. I crossed into New Mexico (and the Mountain time zone) at about 4:45 and felt I was in the home stretch as I refueled in Ft. Sumner. The last hour or so was the hardest, as I fought to stay alert and watch out for elk and deer on the road.

(Apologies to anyone walking along the side of the road last night between Chama and Pagosa Springs who was surprised by a passing van driven by a maniac reciting The Shooting of Dan McGrew at the top of his lungs out of the open window. That was me, and I didn't mean to startle you...)

The computer at the store apparently sensed my ever closer presence, and decided to crash last night. I got to get up with everyone else and go to the store first thing in the morning to see what I could do about it. Well, what can you do when Windows crashes? Reinstall it, of course.

Reinstalling Windows 95 earned me the cybernetic equivalent of a raspberry, so I still have some work to do in that direction. (Actually, if I could replace the spreadsheet that gives us the ability to do quotes, I could install Linux on that machine and go on from there...)

The dogs apparently sensed that I needed some additional things to think about now that I'm back, so they decided not to return from their morning unsupervised walk. A call to the humane society has yielded nothing, so their whereabouts are a complete mystery as I write this.

Other items, too, vie for my attention, most of them involving money flowing from me to somewhere else, making me so happy to be back home. Unpacking the car was a pleasure, as I didn't have to think of who else we owe money to for a whole 20 minutes. I am in the process of creating a master to-do list for the next week, and it's getting pretty lengthy.

Enough jawing...back to work!

Cheers...