I did a lot of phone calling today.
After work, I took care of forwarding mail to Indiana as of this Friday. I called a lot of different people for a lot of different things: car transport paperwork, a tax form, financial paperwork, meeting with people before I leave, setting up safeharboring the canoe, and potential airplane tickets. I took the car in to finally get that light error message looked at. Apparently, the "right" side is the driver's side. I also tuned up my calendar and sent that out to immediate family on both sides.
So far, all planning seems to be going relatively well. I know I will be mad scrambling Thursday and Friday, but everything else seems to be under control as long as I stay on top of it. I'll check one last time, but I think I have all of the paperwork I need for transporting the car. All that is left is for me to pack and get out of dodge. I am, however, constantly finding things that I need to check on or call about. Today was a shining example of it.
I finished K-borg's cribbage board. Here are some pictures I took of it. It's not as complete as I would prefer, but it's certainly usable and in good enough shape for me to be comfortable enough to give it to him tomorrow. I wish I had time to create a compartment to hold the pins and maybe a deck of cards. Dimensionally, it's a 25 inch long and 3 inch diameter cylinder board, just for a frame of reference.
Spencer's drill press and Larry's band saw helped out a lot, but I also think the planning and care I took into it also made a huge difference in terms of putting it all together. I'll be presenting it to him tomorrow, hence why the date is tomorrow.
For those not in the know, the significance behind this cribbage board is that it has 5 tracks. You cannot buy a five track cribbage board...I've tried. If you know the rules of cribbage, you know that you can actually expand the maximum number of players from 4 all the way to 10. I've also tried that. You only have 2 or 3 cards in the crib for the cut, but it's a crazy experience playing with 5 teams of 2. It makes for a crowded table and a crazy insane game. K-borg was one of the people to experience that one game, and not long afterward he asked me to use this piece of wood to make a 5 track board for him. Well, almost 4 years later, I finally got around to it (I still feel a little guilty for waiting so long).
On the Georgia front, my wife's one toenail fell off due to excessive walking from her Land Nav training the week before. Now, I'm sure many of you will be mortified by this, but most long distance runners out there know that this is not that big of a deal. It's happened to me at least twice, if not three times. It doesn't hurt, and the body actually takes care of itself quite easily when this happens. Further, it's good when it falls off because it is already healing itself when that happens. I even double-checked with her and she confirmed to me that it doesn't hurt at all. Just the concept is unsettling. She joked with me about how I felt about being married to a deformed woman :) I told her I love her very much :)
She gets more PT tomorrow. Because of being on profile for her feet from Land Nav, she was only technically allowed to run today. She was surprised at how in shape she still is even though she hasn't run in over a week. This is also good news, as I told her that it means that she has a stronger baseline. She's getting in shape whether she likes it or not :)
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