Wandering with Tedder and Tamara

Heard from the carpet installers, supposedly they would have the carpet
installed by Tuesday or Wednesday. Well, they are going to come out for
the *estimate* on Wednesday, then they will schedule it. So the carpet
probably won't be installed until at least a week from Wednesday.

That's another week the house won't be on the market, another week to
pay for the mortgage, you get the idea. All because of carpet.

Have no clear idea what to do with the piano, either. A friend will come
and pick it up on Wednesday, and the three of us will take it over to
friend 2's house for storage or whatever. Consignment piano shops will
only give about 30% of its value. If I'm going to do that, I may as well
donate it and take the tax savings.

Tamara missed her dentist appointment this morning. That's rescheduled
for Thursday. Thankfully, she was able to get into the endodontist for
an evaluation type appointment. The appointment for the work was
supposed to be at the same time as our travel medicine appointments- but
by the time she got done calling around to reschedule things, the
endodontist had changed their schedule, so Tamara will be going to the
endo right after the travel med appointments.

In another odd coincidence, the AAA office is literally next door to the
travel med clinic. So we'll be able to take care of those quite easily.
That means tomorrow (Tuesday) is chock-full of medical appointments-
family doctor, travel med, then endodontist. If all goes well at the
endodontist, we'll be on track for medical things by the end of this
week. If not.. well, I have no clue.

The painting front is going slow. Tamara had to deal with some packing
at her apartment, the endodontist appointment, and some errands, so no
painting today. She did some of the spackling and texturing over the
signature wall, which is an incredibly daunting task.

So we still have some things worrying us and hanging over our heads:
- Happy Trails luggage. Will it ship this week? When will it arrive in
Seattle?
- Packing. When do we actually pack the daily stuff? When do we get the
moving truck?

There's tons of little stuff, too. Enough that we are delaying the
moving truck, since the idea is to load the moving truck and not come
back to Seattle after it's loaded. At this point, we'll probably do the
loading and going-away celebration in the evening of Thursday the 22nd,
then drive to the beach on Friday and unload.

My mini-laptop will arrive this Thursday, our maps and books will be
here on Wednesday, hopefully Tamara will be done painting by Friday
(since Tuesday and Thursday are eaten up with medical appointments).

-ted