Raven’s Range
Blather around a virtual range

Sunday, 18 May 2008 21:13

18 May 2008

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At the Sanctuary today I was handed a new name-tag. Visitors get a temporary hand-written one; now I have a lovely printed welcome-home kind of one. (Warm fuzzies are included.) The service was all about libraries and reading and I heartily approved. I talked to a school librarian and got a contact name for a high school librarian to whom I could offer a set of books I want to (a) not gather dust in the storage shed and (b) remain a set.

This week I have felt a bit in limbo, as we are lingering again between two lives. I’d say just as we were last year in Sunnyvale, but it’s not the same–not nearly as bad. But still, I dislike the whole amorphous feeling of floating and waiting.

Right now we are working on a contract to park our RV long-term in a beautiful, beautiful place. I’m also working on not counting my chickens, not getting too excited, and yet trying to sort out the things that it would be easier to sort out while still here.

I have had the exciting rediscovery of feeling a particular way and then picking up a book that seems to answer my questions and give me enough food for thought to take me out of myself. This used to happen to me a lot and I think I have become less open to it. So this is a positive thing. I don’t know if you know this phenomenon, but it’s about the tools being there to answer need if you only let them be there.

Even though this week we have potentially picked up another Sword of Damocles–and how utterly, thoroughly sick I am of external factors messing up my flow–I’m in reasonable spirits. I’m also processing a lot of stuff on the back-burner…passive soul-searching, you might call it.

As to events, we got back from our road trip on Monday. On Tuesday I attended the last Armchair Travel lecture with Amber and afterwards we all went out to a late lunch/early dinner and pogged at a neon-lit pizza/pasta/salad bar.

Then we had a huge heat wave and I stayed indoors most of the time. When the air rushing past your bike is not cooling you at all, it’s too hot. Today though the air conditioning didn’t go on until 9, and the heat trend is slowly downwards. I have been trying to burn disks of photos but the CD burner is not cooperating.

I did manage to process a lot of pictures so that I can post photo essays and log my own snarfs, and we did hit the 100,000 landmarks in the Markeroni database. That’s an amazing achievement, it really is.

I had promised myself a visit to the chocolate factory in Clements before we left the area and that’s exactly what I did. I went an looked at the ladies making chocolate dipped strawberries and apples while the rich warm scent of chocolate and sugar wafted out.

Don is preoccupied with the new satellite internet antenna and fixings. I am not best pleased with the sudden influx of earwigs the RV has acquired (they used to live inside the tripod’s tube), but we are getting closer to having a working system. It is pretty much a necessity for us, if we move where there’s no high-speed internet.