Transition continues

I worked a half-day today to take care of errands that were moving related.  I combined two of my retirement accounts (four is too many for me) and cancelled my gym membership.  I also reread the POV documents and contacted USAA for information in that regard.  Tomorrow, I'll contact the DMV to keep the ball rolling on getting POV paperwork taken care of.  Wow, that's a lot of acronyms (POV = Privately Owned Vehicle (the term used when transporting one's vehicle overseas), USAA = United Services Automobile Association (the loan company for the car), DMV = Department of Motor Vehicles (state-level car registration office)).  

The basics are simple with POV transport, but there are a lot of details to be aware of...copies of the title, copies of the orders, copies of the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number), letter of allowance by the loan company to transport the vehicle...and then there are the parts about keeping the car clean and empty.  They make a point in that each car is worth thousands of dollars.  I think a lot of people, myself included, lose sight of that because our car's are always there and we tend to take them for granted.  I need to get into that frame of mode.  There is the real possibility that the car could get damaged or lost in transport.

Saint Paul got the weak side of a snow storm that hit the northern suburbs and Duluth a little harder.  Duluth got 16 inches in one night!  Compare that to Saint Paul that got only about 2 to 3 inches of snow and at least 1 inch of rain.  The temperature never got below freezing here, so it's a bunch of watery slush right now.  If it still stays above freezing as predicted, it should all melt away in a few days.  It's damp and wet 30's here, but it still beats below 0 freezing wind.

More news on the Georgia front.  Rifle training continues.  Tomorrow, they will pull almost an 18 hour day so that they can all train on night-vision tracer bullets.  They also have to stay on the range until they pass their firing test.  The downside is that it's quite humid there right now and it's expected to rain during the day tomorrow to boot.  Hopefully, the rain won't last if it arrives at all tomorrow.  My wife's heels are healing very well.  She says about 80% of the skin has healed now which is pretty impressive.  She said things really got moving once she was put on antibiotics, but that also could have been coincidence given how much time passed before she was on the antibiotics.  

She also had blisters under her index toenails that are now healing which I did not know about until now.  The one toenail is back to normal, but the other look like it may fall off.  This has happened to me many times with the exact same toenails.  It only happens to me when I run for a long time in bad socks.  Nothing to worry about.  It will eventually fall off without any notice, the skin where the nail used to be will harden into a mock toenail, and the new nail will grow and eventually push off the hardened skin.  It's actually a neat and painless process.  

She's also making headway on paperwork for travel, so we'll hopefully have more news on that the beginning of next week.