And now back to the hurry-up stage...

Wow!  The hurry up stage has arrived!

After work yesterday, I received unconfirmed dates for the HHG (household goods) and UB (unaccompanied baggage) moves to Germany.  Those dates are the 17th and the 21-22nd of this month!  This was nice information to get as it helped everything seem a lot more real, but it sadly directly conflicted with my flight to Chicago that my lovely wife scheduled for me not 24 hours earlier.

I didn't put two and two together until this morning.  I immediately called the airline to see if I could reschedule for a later flight.  I also got contacted by the HHG movers, based in Chicago coincidentally, who were calling to confirm the 21st and 22nd move dates.  However, I really needed the UB confirmed so that I could reschedule the tickets, so I proactively got their information through the moving coordinator and contacted them to get a confirmation.  After I got that, I contacted the airline and rescheduled my flight...sadly to the evening.  We will unfortunately lose most of the Friday together in Chicago, but the moves are now set to go!  Wow, that's going to be a very busy weekend for me...17th-UB and Chicago, 18th-Chicago, 19th-Chicago, 20th-Chicago, 21st-HHG, 22nd-HHG.  On top of that, I had to cancel a regularly scheduled singing weekend.

I would also not be surprised if someone wants to schedule a showing for the house that week, simply because everything else under the sun in happening :)

When it rains, it pours.

My new task is to get my accompanied baggage put together.  The trip to Chicago is a perfect excuse to help me sort out what to keep.  I have to sort out what will hold me over until I move to germany.

Oy!  AND once all of that is sorted out, I have to immediately rotate on to getting taxes, the car, med stuff, and the dog sorted out.  The dog's items are almost completely taken care of.  The car items are in line.  I just have to know when to bring the car to port.  The med stuff is in order, I just need to call about not switching you to Tricare standard and select a german endocrinologist.  Taxes...well, I haven't had a chance to start much beyone organizing the relevant paperwork.  I should have time to do that between now and when I leave.

I was going to work on some genealogy stuff last night after going for a jog, but the jog pretty much wore out all productive momentum I had.  I didn't expect to get so tired from it.  It's good in the long run, but for the present it sure did a number on me.  I am more excited about my genealogy project, though.  I've been learning how to create and use databases, which would be a good medium for the project.

I also heard a rumor yesterday about who will be replacing me as QA Director.  It was an expected move, but one co-worker stated, "we'll be starting all over again."

On a final note, I gave Etsy the big cow hip bone that we got from Petsmart a long time ago.  She was one happy dog last night:)  I'll post a video of one brief moment of it as soon as I can.