October 20th Update

Liz would probably do this normally but since we don't have internet at home yet, the status update will come from me. We left St. Louis at about 11:45 AM last Monday (October 13th) with the back our 24' Budget truck stuffed with stuff, the cab stuffed with Liz, Phoebe and me, and the car in tow. The car was also stuffed with stuff. We had an uneventful drive through IL, IN, OH, PA, NY and MA and made it to Boston in around 23 hrs. We smuggled the cat into a hotel for the first night and bought the house the next afternoon. We got some movers to help unload the truck, two guys names Paul and Lama. Why they didn't name their company Pauli Lama movers remains a mystery (Your furniture and the world in one peace). The only casualty of the move was the handle of our turkey roaster, which Lama, an admitted vegetarian, dropped on the basement floor. Suspicious.

I went to work on Thurs., and everyone here seems nice. It may get a little tougher since my go-to small talk topic lost to the Rays last night. Attempts to hide my glee have been successful so far. Jess, a woman I went to grad school with and who lives a block away from us, showed me an excellent bike path that leads right to my work, leaving only about a mile of Boston roadways to be navigated. I guess if you can drown in 5 inches of water you can get crushed in a mile of road, but that's loser talk. The driving is tricky but we're managing. Helps when you have one person to drive and one to navigate. We may end up taking the advice of some guy we met and--"Get a Gaaahmin."

Liz has been getting stuff put away and scoured. The previous occupants were, we suspect, dirty hippies, as they were musicians, didn't clean any "hidden" areas, and had the whole house painted dark red, pink, and "flesh". Flesh is the worst. We met the next door neighbor and he seems very nice. He offered to mow our ~100 ft2 of lawn for us and told us the Hatians across the street are not to be feared. Liz's cousin Nicole who attends Union College in Schenectady, NY, came to visit Saturday night, so we got out to see some of the town on Sunday. We ate cannoli from Modern Pastry, which is apparently famous. Our cell #s are the same for now. I'll be back to stalk the elusive whitetail in a few weeks and we'll be home for Christmas as well. Out. -Rick