We are moving to France

Actually we made it in April of 2023

Tag: France

  • My Friends Call Me Professor Mike Mes amis m’appellent Professeur Mike

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    The above image is there since I claim to be a photographer… It has no bearing on the subject of this post. I have mentioned before I volunteer for a “Fab Lab” (a place with machines and tools like 3d printers and laser cutters, allow people to make things) in Bergerac. A while back someone…

  • Car/Voiture

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    Some have expressed concern over the car situation. I am ok. I got the car Friday, about 6 or so weeks after we told the dealership we wanted it. To keep things positive, I will not bring up the delays. Like when they denied ever having given us a date we could pick it up,…

  • Automobile/Voiture

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    Yesterday was a big/surreal/strange dayLa journée d’hier a été importante/surréaliste/étrange We bought a second car. The search is difficult here. I am only licensed to drive an automatic. Every kid these days is learning how to drive an automatic because the training for an automatic is cheaper, like 1000€ cheaper. Thus, all the automatics are…

  • People

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    My bedroom as a kid was a cave. I had a bunkbed with a desk under it. Power supplies, lasers, plotters, printers, electronics, soldering iron… When I got my first big job in the motion picture industry, I worked at a place, Clairmont Camera, when I got promoted, I worked in a very tiny cave,…

  • This is why we can’t have nice things

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    Good Job ‘Murica.Ok, got that off my chest. Ok, life update here. A little tired and a little raw. 1) Been here 2 years 3 months. Going on 2 years in the formerly new home. Still not done with it, some places still need paint. 2) The current theme is alternate universe. That is where…

  • The name made sense in 2020

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    Wearemovingtofrance.com made perfectly good sense in February 2020. We didn’t even know about the global pandemic, it’s magnitude, or ‘Murica’s insane and crippled response. We wouldn’t even experience the full frontal impact for another month. We didn’t know about a lot of things. We weren’t really sure how this move to France would work out.…

  • When a kitchen comes in a clown car.

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    The Measurement saga on August 1st, 2024, we contracted a prominent manufacturer of kitchens to design and install our kitchen. There are 3 walls and an Island. Wall 1 is a counter surface with drawers on either side. It was built 10 cm too wide. (If you don’t know 10 cm, you live in Liberia,…

  • Roadtrip

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    Some seriously mundane shite out of Mundania in the south west of France. Wednesday we headed up to Perigueux to go to Leroy Merlin (I dare you not to say that like they would on the Dukes of Hazard, y’all) Leeeroy Mehrlin. We needed tile, some misc hardware, needed to return a vent hood, and…

  • That Floaty Feeling

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    (Again) (me wrestling with floaty feelings) Yeah, I’ve probably talked about this floaty feeling way too much, but I think I finally have a good handle on what is going on, or at least part of what is going on… Or I don’t and I’ll be whinging about this again in the future… When I…

  • 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…