Olympic Update

We watched some of the live Olympic coverage on TV yesterday - between chores - and came away with a couple obvious conclusions. The first is that the winter Olympics is not our strong suit. Norway and Germany are running away with the medals with our own neighbor, Canada, in close pursuit. I understand that most of the athletes from those countries live in prime winter areas, but many of those athletes train right here in the U.S. and many of those athletes also live here. It is difficult to understand why we cannot have a better showing with over 240 of our own athletes participating. No matter what the medal count, they are still fun to watch.

Another week gets underway today. There are some major areas for us to concentrate on this week - the house situation is the major one, and our future commitment(s) to this resort as our time is running out on whether to make it an annual space or not. We want the flexibility to be able to stay in another location, but the resort has "length of stay" restrictions without committing to an annual arrangement. All of these will, hopefully, work themselves out...

Playing Catchup

One day off just doesn't make enough impact on our unpacking. There are so many other tasks that need to be done that we don't get a chance to catch-up on the boxes. As a result, the path through the RV still exists, albeit it is shrinking. We work today but have tomorrow and Wednesday off which should allow for some significant progress. The best solution would have been to quit the Spring Training gig altogether this year. The problem with that is that we would then be giving up some good short term money which is helpful in covering our moving expenses. Once again, it all is a result of the long delay in getting the parts for our RV repairs.

We took a trip to storage and while in the area we stopped at the house. Nothing has changed since we met with the property manager and his Leasing Director last week. There should be an update forthcoming today or tomorrow. We keep hearing about the "hot" rental market, so something should be happening soon.

It is really funny how "needs" change while trying to squeeze everything into the fifth wheel. Many items we thought we would need over the next several months are ending up in "back-to-storage" boxes. There is a long way to go before we get down to our real traveling load...