Getting Ready, Well Maybe Not...

It's 11:06 PM and I am no closer to ready than I was yesterday at this time. Well I did find some waterproof shoes online,  but of course it's too late to be ordering waterproof shoes online. They say we will need them as we ride the snowmobile over a glacier. I cannot believe I am going to be doing such a crazy thing at my advanced age. Hopefully the snowmobiles will have training wheels.

I have gone through every CD I own looking for Outlook 2003.  We don't like to rush things, so we waited until the last minute to rebuild my laptop. I am addicted to computers; without them, this blog would terminate prematurely, like before we leave.  This would be maybe the 3rd or 4th try at loading an operating system that will function. Terry has far more patience than me. It is not the most important thing I could be doing, but it makes me feel like I am doing something, and I'm not even doing it. Terry is.

That and filing complaints. We got a call at some ridiculous hour of the morning, like 2:22 or something. So did son Jon. There's something about a total stranger calling in the middle of the night threatening our sense of security, claiming to know where we live (and proving it), telling us the names and ages of our kids and grandkids, and refusing to disclose who they are. It got a lot nastier after that. Especially when we are less than a week away from our trip of a lifetime.

Spending way too long on the internet, we tracked down the company that handles the exchange -214.390 - number. I sent a brief email to what was probably the webmaster inquiring about who might have that number. Terry, on the other hand, did a magnificent job of detailing the incident and sending it to every living person in the company. What is even more amazing is some of them actually responded and said they would do something about it. We'll never know for sure what they did, but the police called it after Terry filed a report today and the phone was disconnected. . We Won! We think. Hopefully they won't try to get revenge while we are still here. Nick is a little nervous though. Nick isn't going with us.

Since I am still (foolishly) working in my retirement I am trying to be a good person and document the menial tasks at work...there are SO many...in order to make sure they get done while I'm gone. So far I have completed 4 powerpoint presentations.  Not that they will ever be 'presented'.  It probably would have been simpler to write a list, but hey, the powerpoint presentations were a lot more fun to do and pretty to look at. I even made a checklist to make sure I covered all of the meaningless, i mean menial, tasks, but every time I go over it something else pops up.  I may have control issues.

I'm pretty sure I REALLY need to go on this trip.