Things’ll be a little slow around here for the next week or two, probably, as moving back to America becomes priority number one. Just to give you a head’s up.

Also, one from the “moving is complicated” file: When we moved here, we bought a big 26″ widescreen CRT television off of Gumtree, the UK equivalent to Craigslist (well, there’s Craigslist here, too, but you can watch the tumbleweeds blow around if you try to actually use it for much of anything- which means, incidentally, that I’ve gotten about 75% of the jobs I’ve applied for that were listed there, as there’s almost no competition- just a tip for expat job-hunters). Anyway, we paid £100 for the TV and expected that we’d maybe be able to get £70 for it by the time we left, but holy cow, has that thing depreciated. I’ve been re-listing it on Gumtree every day, dropping the price £10 each time. It’s down to £40 right now and I’ve finally gotten a couple of nibbles. By tomorrow I’m just going to advertise that it’s free if you answer five Chicago Bears trivia questions.

But that’s all the drama, which isn’t so bad. Tomorrow is our last day in London, and we fly out of Heathrow for O’Hare at 10:30am on Saturday, in advance of a ten day road trip USA leading back to Texas. Like I said, things’ll probably be spotty in the meantime, but hang around anyway, will you?