We are moving to France

Actually we made it in April of 2023

Category: life

  • Sitting, reflecting, writing

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    My second winter in France is approaching. We hit 0°C a few nights ago, ice on the roads, a millimeter or 3 of ice on the car. I still recall the weeks prior to our departure: The stress of the FDA stamp for the dogs to travel. Selling all of the cars and driving a…

  • That’s how its done

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    I passed. I have a French driver’s license. This is more or less the process(less) Rewind to a year ago to November 2023. I did two things to ensure that when my California driver’s license expired that I would have already taken and passed my test. Come January 2024 And I do get ahold of…

  • Kitchen, kitchen, who’s got my kitchen

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    Kitchen pre-demo. The exploratory demo shows some bizarre trenching. Last you heard, we were doing some preliminary demo to get ready for the new kitchen. Well, It is in progress. As of today, 20% of the tile is in. We still have a sink, thanks to some saw horses and the good graces of the…

  • Renovation

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    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

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    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

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    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…

  • Bored? Oh!

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    Wow, that was pretty bad. Also this is sort of a lame post. I have had the hood up on my blog for the last few hours, trying to recuperate functionality after transferring to a new host, with entirely new content since the old host borked up my blog. Specifically, I got the subscribe functionality…

  • Association

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    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

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    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…