Time to pay the piper

Well, this has all been great fun, but it has come time to pay the piper. I will be leaving New Orleans on Sunday to return to Boulder, where I will be for an indeterminate period of time. I have to try to get a new tenant, and get collection proceedings going, and do my taxes, and some work on the house... you get the idea. And then, unless something changes, I will have to look for work - of the high-paying, soul-battering kind. I sure hope I am feeling better by driving time - last night was an unpleasant, fever-soaked experience.

Maybe I'll get some notice about my fellowship application, maybe the collection agency will actually be able to come up with some $$, but I'm not counting on any of that. So, stay tuned, but it may be that this is the end of my travels - it seems the bungee 1) held, and 2) was shorter than I expected. At least, I would be able to say I went out on a high note. ;)

A side note: New Orleans certainly made an impression on me, and even on Papa Smurf, too. When climbing into the truck from the passenger side, I hit the rearview mirror, which came off, along with a chunk of the windshield! It was pointed out that - "Hey, that looks kind of like Louisiana!". Sure enough, the missing glass perimeter is fairly close to the outline of the state!