Last week I spent a morning at my local Social Security office, and today, I have a Social Security Number. I feel oddly like I’ve really arrived and yet also like I’m betraying the old country.
As I waited in the office last week I mentally composed a posting I never got round to that was [...]
A companion piece to complete the previous sequence; Home Is Where The Net Is and Home Is Where The Cat Is.
The Mrs has landed. The family is once again complete, five and a half thousand miles from home. Just having him here gives me such a huge lift I can’t really explain it.
Unfortunately he was made [...]
He’s here. He seems oddly settled already, though rather clingier than he’d usually be with me. He follows me from room to room and spends a lot of time rubbing against my legs. But when I’m settled for a bit he’s started making brief sorties to other parts of the house. He didn’t want to [...]
Right about now, The Mrs is handing Gramsci over to someone who’s going to take him to Heathrow for his flight to San Francisco. I can barely imagine the emotional wreck that the cat mover will be leaving at the front door. He’s been dreading putting the little ‘un through the trauma of the journey. [...]
So I’m in.
The new place seems bigger than I remember, and as we’re not adding anything in the way of furniture I guess that’ll continue to be the case.
It’ll come as no shock to anyone that the very first thing I did was set up the router and check everything was connecting okay…
So The Most Protracted Emigration/Immigration In History(tm) continues apace.
I’m here, but still in a temporary apartment until this coming weekend. On Saturday I will be moving the things I have in the temporary place, gathering up various bits and pieces I’ve had in the office since previous trips, and probably buying a few extra things [...]
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