Wandering with Tedder and Tamara

Personal: I've discontinued an antidepressant. It has a couple of weird
side-effects- the main one I'm having is called 'depersonalization'. I
feel like the puppeteer or something- absolutely no connection to life.
I'm sure some of it is due to being laid off and such huge life changes,
but I think the vast majority is from this antidepressant.
http://bipolar.about.com/cs/antidep/a/0207_ssridisc1.htm

Tamara's last day of work was today, she has a bunch of travel medicine
appointments for us for the next week. For instance, final teeth
cleaning and repairs, shots (yellow fever, anyone?), prescriptions for
medications, and spare eyeglass lenses.

Bike: got my Wilbers shock, and got it installed. Took a couple of
hours, a sledge hammer, a large lever (4ft chunk of 2x2), and
head-scratching. I noticed it immediately- I sat down on the seat and it
didn't squish and squat. Wow. It felt low, so I kept adjusting the
preload to compensate. After a quick ride I knew I needed to adjust the
compression, and the rebound was getting really annoying. Well, I found
out I was adjusting the rebound, *not* preload, so I had the rebound
maxed out. Oops.

House: The woodshop is completely bare- everything is off the walls and
ceiling, packed or moved out. We found someone who will work on the
french doors for the downstairs big room. He'll be coming out to start
the work tomorrow (I hope!). He has a helper who is great at drywall
repair, so they will be handling all of the patching. This construction
will define a lot of our schedule- once that is underway, we'll get
carpet scheduled, and can start painting, etc.

The biggest factors, at this point, are as follows:
- get the construction done downstairs, including new paint and carpet.
Once this is done, we can get the realtor photos taken and the house can
be listed.
- finish packing. Once the construction and packing is done, we'll move
it into storage at the coast, the house will be totally empty, and we
will be done in Seattle.
- get the Happy Trails rack for the DL650. This will probably determine
our schedule more than anything, since it is about two weeks out. Can
always have it shipped to somewhere in our trip, or go to Boise for it,
or.. well, I don't know.