We're here

It took about 11 hours total, pretty amazing with a toddler and two cats, but we made it to Norfolk. We may have a house tomorrow, I hope.

Cats were SILENT almost the whole way down, which isn't like them. Theo was an absolute angel, because he always is. Bedtime for me. Walkthrough tomorrow morning...

Dear users of the Craigslist "Free Stuff" section

The proper response to a listing under "Free Stuff" is "When are you available for me to come to your house and take these items off your hands?" The proper response is not "Hey, call my cell phone."

Let's think about this -- from the moment I decide that something in my house that has been sitting in a closet since I moved in 3.5 years ago is worth so little to us that it must be given/thrown away, I'm doing YOU a favor. From the moment I pressed "publish", I stopped having an archaic music box in my house, and started holding a piece of YOUR property until you can come here and pick it up.

I might give partial credit for "Call my cell phone to give me your address and I will come straight over," but chances are that I'm going to get three responses in the first couple hours a listing is online, and whoever makes me do the least work is getting the goods.

And yes, I realize it would've taken me less time to dial a phone number than write a blog post. Shuddup.

Now begone, before we taunt you a second time

I put up a link to this at right, but man oh man there's nothing finer than the reaction in the Cuban press to the US Navy sending an amphibious ship full of doctors, dentists and aid workers to the Caribbean as part of an ongoing series of humanitarian missions.

I'm looking at this line in particular:

The USS Kearsarge will remain in Latin America for four months and will land in five nations of Central and South America and the Caribbean after landing in Nicaragua.

Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago are the other nations that will soon feel intimidated by the warship before it returns to its base in Virginia.

one note

Although she's busy in school all day and has 200,000 other things to do, and didn't have a car, my wife made sure I had half-and-half in the house this morning. She obviously realizes her husband is a simple man, and she's dreamy.

Home, if you can call it that

Theo and I arrived back in Newport from our extended roadtrip yesterday afternoon.

Of course, with just about a week and a half until the movers arrive, this place is barely home anymore. The hiatus may continue, aside from a snarky comment or two and maybe some reader items posted.

Blogging from the road never even occurred to me. Too busy living, or just busy, I guess.