The alarm went off at 6:00 Tuesday morning, but somehow I made it out to the levee before the 6:15 group left (luckily, they were running a little late too). I think this was the first post-K long weekday morning levee ride I've done. The legs felt fine and we had a good sized group that did the whole ride. Afterward I once again loaded up the car for the trip back to Jackson and by noon we were in our little basement office again. The move of the Psych/Neuro office to our house is definite now, but there wasn't much time on Monday to think about it. We did go over to the hospital and get the annual flu shots for free, and then had a nice dinner at the house. After more than one glass of wine, I hit the sack pretty early, but was soon awakened by the ring of my cellphone. It was the sister-in-law who was, then wasn't, going to be staying at our house. As it turned out, the place where she had ended up staying, which was an apartment in a building that a friend of hers had recently bought down near the French Quarter, didn't have any electricity when she arrived, so she bailed and was calling to let us know she'd be staying at our place that night. I have no idea if she's just going to stay with us or try the apartment again.
When I went to sleep Tuesday night I had already decided to take Wednesday off the bike. I was dead tired for one thing, and I knew it would be foggy for the other, so it was an easy decision, especially since I had gotten in four days of good rides while in New Orleans. So Wednesday morning I went over to the Jackson Post Office and filled out a "change of forwarding" form to cancel out the temporary change of address form I had submitted when I arrived in Jackson. Then I did another change of address form so that mail that did get addressed to the Jackson location in the interim would be forwarded back to my home address. I guess it will be February before my mail gets finally straightened out, if I'm lucky.
So today we realized that the hospital will be closed on Friday for Veterans Day, so we will have to move our stuff out of the office tomorrow. I looked around at all of the computers that we had there, and then looked around at the house and the amount of stuff we had accumulated during our two-month "displacement." Then I looked at the car which suddenly looked quite tiny. Hmmmm. It looks like we'll be making two trips back and forth to Jackson in order to get all of this stuff moved. I guess we'll make one trip Thursday, and then another on Friday or Saturday. Then over the weekend I'll hopefully get the DSL connection set up and we can rearrange things to create two or three offices. At any rate, I expect I will at least be able to make the Sunday Northshore training ride again, and I should be able to get out tomorrow morning for a short ride if it's not too foggy. I am not at all sure where my lights are right now. Hell, I'm not at all sure where anything is right now!
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