on March 25th, 2011 at 3:32 pm by MJ

So we threw out that entire plan that I mentioned in my last post. We’re not moving out of the rig, not getting an apartment, none of that. Instead, a few other things have happened. I paid off my VW Golf, which was step one in the now-defunct plan. Then I took it to the [...]

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on November 3rd, 2010 at 9:29 pm by MJ

October is gone, and November has begun.  The nights are dipping down to near freezing, and I’m in deep denial.  I really can’t continue to drag my feet about winterizing.  It needs to be done, and it needs to be done soon. I need to buy a new, shorter fresh water hose, a new length [...]

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on August 22nd, 2010 at 4:47 pm by MJ

We’ve been back in Maryland for more than a week, but I still haven’t wrapped my head around the idea just yet.   Been in a little bit of a fog, despite the fact that I had to return to work last Monday.  It’s that odd time right before the start of the semester when classes [...]

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on July 5th, 2010 at 1:30 am by MJ

We woke up this morning in the Wal Mart parking lot in Lockhart, Texas, where we’d spent the night after getting in late Saturday evening.  Our reservation for the state park was set for today, so once we got up and got dressed, we headed straight over there.  The night on the asphalt had been [...]

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