Rainy day in Grand Haven, so working on getting our new home in order. I discovered that each room has one or more hardwired internet connections. Fiber right into each apartment. Wired gigabit internet and they don’t even mention it. Like perhaps 900+ download speed and 800+ up might be important to someone working from…
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May 3rd: Hard Rain
A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall My Electric Insurance guy suggested I get flood insurance as we are on the first floor with a pond right outside our patio. I declined. Last night we had a hard, driving rain. The kind where you open the door to the covered patio and still get a face full…
One journey ends, the new path begins
Finally, this day has arrived. I will be archiving these 200 days and in the coming days blogging our exploration of Michigan. But today, is about our success in our journey to arrive. I have been saving this short clip for quite a while, please turn your speakers up and hit play. Everything has fallen…
T -1 Day: Food
Dinner on the outdoor river deck just off of Lake Michigan… sunny and 70… great food, great company. Tomorrow we start eating mostly at home. Found the kitchen the last two days of unpacking. Costco run in the morning, farmer’s market opening day is Saturday. Our goal is strategic meals out, only going to a…
T -3 Days: Piano death
Boom goes the piano Piano from the basement was heading to the landfill with the movers. Thought it would be a fairly easy task. Except they were one mover short, and the piano is a lot heavier than I estimated, and heavily weighted towards the backend, and slightly soft ground. Dolly wheels hit the soft…
T – 4 Days: Null
My first missed post. Didn’t get back to the hotel room till after midnight. Some problems with the move… 1st world problems… nothing major. Just got the keys to the new place, with movers about an hour out yet. My wife coming separately with the dog is still about 4 hours out. Nervous about where…
T -7 Days: A gift
Today came a Fed Ex package from my friends in Tennessee… what could it be? A Kansas City Royals jersey! What a great present, something I have never owned. My wife has an impressive collection of Royals jerseys, t-shirts, bobble heads and other mementos. She has almost every Mike Moustakas (Royals 3rd baseman) jersey (the…
T -8 Days: Beating the plan
May 1st, 2018 was the goal when I started this countdown. If everything went perfectly, that is the date when we would arrive at the beach in Michigan. We are going to beat that goal by a few days. Three days left at work, movers come in four days, in five days we will be…
T -12 Days: Hate going to work
If you hate going to work, it’s your fault Or so says Sally Illingworth below: She appears frequently on my LinkedIn feed. Love the energy, the insights, the quick hitting posts (I am a believer in getting to the point quickly). I had a different reaction to this one (besides the dangerous driving while…
T -15 Days: Community
We arrive on the 28th, and there we go… a welcoming party on the 29th! Ok, a coincidence. But I believe we are going to love this community even if we are on the older side of the demographic. Sparkling new buildings, a continuing stream of community events, and an almost psychic ability to…