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Ha! But I cannot. The landlady will be visiting with someone to look at the apartment in a few hours. I am really dragging bottom. I need to push a little. A shave and shower, vacuuming, dressing, then out the door I go. And I will stay out until she calls and lets me know when they will be here, so I can guess when they will be gone. I will return only then. There is just something about strangers in my cave that unnerves me. It just feels weird. I wonder if people who are selling their house, while they are still living in it, feel the same way. They must. Perhaps even if they have moved it feels intrusive.
I can get some things done today, but I have to stay focused especially while exhausted. The DMV is my first stop, where I will find out if they will even send off for a copy of the title. It would not surprise me if they say, "No, you need to contact...", and contacting ...., he will say, "Oh, no, fill out this form, mail it to this bureaucrat, she will send it to the governor's office, they will stamp, date, and file it. It well then be reviewed, and...". Really, that is how things work here, or do not work as the case may be. This is a very strictly regimented bureaucratic state. Sometimes that is good, sometimes not so much. From my experience so far, it has been trouble and toil. Actually, the first thing I will do is try to find the box with the paperwork (social security card), I need to get my driver's license. I best check what else I need in order to do that as well... hmm, two pieces of mail to my current address, my current driver's license, and a secondary (picture I think) identification card. The V.A. card will work for that. After that, depending on how those go, I am not sure. I could pack a few more things in the SUV to take to storage. That will not really eat up time out there though.
I might have to, finally, stop at the information center. I have an idea for about 3 or 4 hiking trails, but it would be good to see how long those are. I know one is 7 miles, one way, so 14 miles since I do not have someone to pick me up. The others are not marked and I have not been able to find other information regarding them. I had thought about buying hiking boots, but the ones I have will work quite well I do believe. I bought some cheapos, but they have ended up being superior boots. I will not exactly be packing in. A rucksack with some edibles, perhaps some fruit, snack bars, and definitely water. I might take fishing gear as well, to take a break or two along the path. That, of course, will be strictly catch and release fishing. If I can get a bite and land the fish, that is. Anyway, 3 other trails need to be researched, and others if possible.
I could, however, look at new tennis shoes. I ordered a pair that were supposed to be 12 1/2 but feel more like 12. Those are going back. I could get that package ready and send it back. I do not need shirts, pants, slacks, or any of that though. Then again, I have not seen a shoe store. I will not shop at Wal-Mart for shoes or clothes. I tried shoes there once, my mistake. That did not take 100 lashes to figure out. Finding a 12 1/2 is difficult though, and apparently, online stores which offer 12 1/2 are buying from even smaller feeted nations than China! Well, maybe they put the plant more inland where they have not quite figured out what 12 1/2 is yet.
Later. Or good night. When I do return, there is a good chance I will simply crash. Sort of like there is a good chance if you jump, you will have generated kinetic energy, at the start of your upward motion. Yeah, that works.
babble, babble, babble... It is what I have, why do you cast stones down on the heads of the forlorn?!? :p
oh, my...sleep issues again. Me too but my trip to Ohio contributed to that. I think I'd be much better if I made myself stick to a schedule but that is a lazy area of mine.
ReplyDeleteI missed a few posts but it sounds like you quit a medication. Bad side-effects again? sorry, dear.
Keep your chin up, though. You will make it better somehow! d:-)
Yeah, those sleep cycles have never been something I have quite figured out. Some of us are just cat people, anyway, never quite getting up or going to bed at regular times, or sleeping regular amounts. Meow?
ReplyDeleteNo, I have not quit my medicine. I told the medics I was going to run out of medicine the last time I was in to see them. They just shrugged. They didn't care if I ran out or not. No, I have not quit, I simply do not have them to take. They said it would be a week, but if it takes two I will quit and we are into that next week. I hate being toyed with. And the withdrawals are almost as fun as going on them was.
Ohio? I thought they only had mosques in Ohio? Oh, I know, they have industry, farming, and a nuke plant. :p Oh, and you for a bit. I hope that was fun.
I suppose we can sleep when we are dead? Well, maybe not. But if not, we will be far better or worse off, so it won't matter.
The best hiking boots I have ever bought are not hiking boots at all. Brigade Quartermaster had an outrageous clearance sale on boots a while ago, and I picked up a pair of Bates military style boots for something like $35 bucks (normally well over $100) Dayum those are comfortable on a long killer hike! Those were the ones I wore on that twelve mile misdirected hike a couple months ago, and while the rest of my body was pretty dang weary, my feet held out pretty well. I did end up with a couple small blisters, but after twelve miles, heck!
ReplyDeleteThese are the boots I bought, here, http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/timberland-urban-force-high-boots.aspx?a=549523 and here, http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/timberland-jungle-force-high-boots.aspx?a=549522
ReplyDeleteI wish I knew how to embed the links, it would be a lot neater. I got the sand in the short and the dark in the tall. If my apartment gets rented soon, I may buy another pair of each, but in the other colors. I like having a second boot in my pack (in a dry pack), plus to alternate on multi-day things, if I get that far. These are built like tanks as well, and even with my hammer toes, they are easy to go anywhere in (if I get looked at funny in 'some' restaurants. But, I tend to wear things out quickly. The last pair I bought that I loved they simply stopped making. They have gone up $10 a pair since I bought the first ones, I think.
I love surplus, if that is what it really is. I think the order was made too big (that is why I could get a 12 1/2), so the whole lot, maybe several loads(?) was "Rejected". That is, if they are actually special forces boots at all.
It isn't paranoid to disbelieve half of what you actually see and all of what you hear. My grandpa, and dad, told me those things!