While partying with the dogs outside, I chatted with J via FaceTime. She met several new people today including a few nice German lawyers. She also relayed some information regarding pet travel. This afternoon, she was looking through houses for us. The army provides a rent and utilities stipend for us. House rent is easily 50% more expensive there and roughly twice as expensive for utilities. Knowing how water is at a premium in Germany, perhaps making some rain barrels would be a good idea. On the plus side, all the recommended housing she looked at was easily twice or more larger than our previous house (well, it's still pending closing). Several of the houses boast "winter gardens" which I take to mean small greenhouses. If that's true, I'll be a very happy man in Germany.
J is continuing to enjoy herself there and is glad we are traveling separately. Apparently, until processing is done, I would be restricted largely to the hotel.
As per her suggestion, I double-checked about a military vet for getting the certification for etsy. On accident, I found that the certificate format changed unexpectedly this month. After a small panic attack, I found that my having taken etsy to the bet earlier was a good things. I continue as planned except now I have to get the certificate reviewed by the USDA for whatever reason right after I get it signed.
One last quirk. Apparently one gets a national driver's license and an international driver's license in Europe. J told me that it is supposedly easier to take care of the international one before moving over, which she failed to do. I'm going to see if the local license place will do international licenses tomorrow.
This post's picture is Buster sleeping behind me with his head on my shoulder. I swear he looks like an unhooded ewok from star wars.
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