We are moving to France

Actually we made it in April of 2023

Category: Blog

  • Home is where the anchor drops

    Sometimes I feel floaty I have these moments of disassociation. I stand there and can’t believe where I am (south west of France) , how I got here (years of planning and a terrifying leap.) I look and see patterns. I see trajectories. And for the life of me I just don’t see the south…

  • Just drive she said

    According to my instructor I passed my test to get my Level B, Automatic Transmission driver’s license. To protect the examiner from having the living snot beaten out of them, they no longer tell you in person if you pass of fail. I took a practice test at my driver’s school yesterday… I failed for…

  • Renovation

    The kitchen is moving forward We have identified a contractor We have a not unreasonable quote We have water damage and mold, possibly from the pompe a chalor drainage issues that were eloquently documented on the previous version of my blog that are lost to the ravages of my previous web-host. In short, the pompe…

  • The driving saga

    5 months 3 day later, I am able to drive again…Supervised. Step one Move to France from a non reciprocal state like California. The date is April 14, 2023. My residency takes effect when customs stamps my passport. My residency starts a one year fuse on my driver’s license. In 1 year I will be…

  • Just a simple post

    Falling directly into the mundania category, Yesterday my wife and I went to visit some friends, specifically, my wife dropped me off at one of our friends houses, while she went to some other friend’s house. She went to see the improvements they had done to the place, specifically tiling the chapel floor that sits…

  • The kind and gentle art of renovating a kitchen whilst one is living in the house with no opportunity of an outdoor kitchen because it is mid September and it is already below 10°C at night and by the time November rolls around it is going to be fucking frigid out there.

    My wife is not one to swear.My wife, among other things, is a trained chef and a masterful baker. Our kitchen is hateful. Hateful I tell you. The oven is named Every Fucking Time.It has earned that name because it insists on burning off your eyebrows EveryFucking Time You open the oven door, say buh…

  • Association

    I belong to two associations here near Bergerac. ACFAA ACFAA is a group of ~18 clubs and a language department that fall under the same banner in Eymet. There are non ACFAA clubs in Eymet as well. Needless to say, there is a lot to do in Eymet. There are a lot of Britts in…

  • This is going to hurt

    I am retired. The wellspring of income is now dry. Every now and again a little rain shower drips in, but the raging torrent of money in (and money out) is now gone. In the process of all of this, I have decided to trim my expenditures.One such expenditure was my old hosting service and…