Pagosa time...
Jun. 21st, 2006 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI biked to the store to pick up a couple of checks and drop off some supplies, which I carried in my backpack, and then I was off to Wells Fargo, to create a new account for the LLC, and to the U-Haul place to pick up a truck.
Biking from the store to the Wells Fargo is not that bad, except for the last part, an uphill run to the light at the top of what then becomes about a 4-mile downhill into town. In any event, I negotiated the road without much problem, even despite the construction.
The young man helping me open my account is new at the bank, so the process took about three times longer than you'd expect. As I had some time to kill before getting to the U-Haul place, and as the bank is air-conditioned, this was not particularly a problem.
The U-Haul place is downhill from the bank, headed toward town. When I got there, the place was closed and nobody was in evidence. I figured the place closed down for lunch, and that the proprietor - the "thousand fleas" incantation goes here - simply had not told me about that.
Anyway, between waiting for the proprietor to return (there's not many places that have trucks available), quietly suffering his very slow typing skills, and hanging out while he loaded up the blankets and poured in some fuel, it took two hours to get the truck.
Upon returning home, it struck me that basically, I'll have no time to pack for Baikonur later, so I started to pack today. I'll need to make a separate list of items that can't as yet go into luggage (such as my USB keyboard and mouse) because I'm still using them.
Shortly after starting, Galina came home to pick up some bubble wrap for the store, and I took it there for her and decided to pass the last part of the day in the store, allowing Drew to go home.
Tonight, I need to finish packing for Kazakhstan, make a hard charge and figure out exactly what's going in that wharnkingly small truck, and if I can, how to best go about doing it.
Cheers...
Biking from the store to the Wells Fargo is not that bad, except for the last part, an uphill run to the light at the top of what then becomes about a 4-mile downhill into town. In any event, I negotiated the road without much problem, even despite the construction.
The young man helping me open my account is new at the bank, so the process took about three times longer than you'd expect. As I had some time to kill before getting to the U-Haul place, and as the bank is air-conditioned, this was not particularly a problem.
The U-Haul place is downhill from the bank, headed toward town. When I got there, the place was closed and nobody was in evidence. I figured the place closed down for lunch, and that the proprietor - the "thousand fleas" incantation goes here - simply had not told me about that.
Anyway, between waiting for the proprietor to return (there's not many places that have trucks available), quietly suffering his very slow typing skills, and hanging out while he loaded up the blankets and poured in some fuel, it took two hours to get the truck.
Upon returning home, it struck me that basically, I'll have no time to pack for Baikonur later, so I started to pack today. I'll need to make a separate list of items that can't as yet go into luggage (such as my USB keyboard and mouse) because I'm still using them.
Shortly after starting, Galina came home to pick up some bubble wrap for the store, and I took it there for her and decided to pass the last part of the day in the store, allowing Drew to go home.
Tonight, I need to finish packing for Kazakhstan, make a hard charge and figure out exactly what's going in that wharnkingly small truck, and if I can, how to best go about doing it.
Cheers...
