With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

The great unpacking

2008 April 26 09:56

I'm back. Back home after a full month on the road. I drove out of here March 26 and first set foot back late yesterday evening.

My itinerary was:

Oy. Or perhaps uff-da.

I frankly overpacked, because I didn't realize I was going to have laundry facilities available...and then I went shoppig for gifts right before I left Edinburgh. My plan had been to send stuff back...and then I found out how much that cost. I shifted plans and bought a second suitcase, because I was in the magic window before May 5 when airlines will start charging more for the second suitcase.

And having had four different stops, and shifting stuff around, I have a whole car's worth of bags and suitcases and stuff to unpack. I'm notoriously bad about unpacking, and with this magnitude of stuff I could easily stretch this out three weeks, so I want to get on it today.

The to-do list for today: unload car the rest of the way unpack sort mail pay bills grease car door hinges

And my work schedule has a rare bubble in it, with a paper submission deadline this coming Wednesday. I'm in the very rare position that the most important thing I have to do between now and Wednesday is write code and write a paper about it. Good times, good times. "I love it when a plan comes together".