Tickets in Hand

Finally, I have my tickets in hand and my hotel reservations made. Already, I'm setting up a trip to Beijing to perform some training for one of our partners. Truly amazing how quickly things are moving now that the logjam is broken. I'll take another round of pictures of the house before I leave.

Today was bulky item pickup day. I had a mattress, two large pieces of sheet metal, a dead microwave, and a Nordic Track that were sitting around. No charity wants them, partly because they are too big, too hard to sell, and too hard to clean. I sure hope they are gone before I get back to the house. The last thing I want is to have to deal with them again.

I also had to take my Honda into the shop to get it smogged. California requires a recent (within 90 days) smog certificate in order to sell a car. I found this out the hard way when I took the car into a smog station and found out it had been modded improperly. Which prevented me from selling the car. So, off to the mechanic today to get them to deal with getting the thing smogged. A few hours and several hundred dollars later, it is smogged. Problem solved, and I don't care how.

I'm packing up my desk and shipping it off to Australia today. More details. I'm overwhelmed, but also determined to get all this taken care of before I hit the road.

Onward!