We’re still waiting on payments for the tubes, incense, books and something else. I hope there’s money waiting for us tomorrow at the PO. Tom’s a little worried about the tube payment because it’s taken so long, but every now and then you do get someone who doesn’t pay. We’ll report them and give them negative feedback if we have to. eBay recommends waiting a while in case the payment got lost in the mail.

We’ve got some things ending in a few hours, and we’ll be listing new things, too. Barbie’s currently got 133 views while the porcelain doll only has 21. They have this new thing now that tells you how many people are watching your items. There are 4 people watching Barbie right now, so even though she’s only at $13.50 at the moment, I’m sure they’ll swoop in on her at the end. I’d like at least $18 because that’d be $2 per doll. The small cage is also at $13.50, so that’s more than half the money back on what turned out to be a very dumb buy. What’s really weird is that there’s someone watching the store. This makes no sense to us because all you could see by watching the store was whether or not an item sold.

A couple of nights ago the people in the closest house in front kind of made their presence known. It was about 10 PM when I heard a guy go “Whoa!” I was in the utility area when I heard it through the side door which has a single pane of glass in it. In the rest of the house, you couldn’t hear anything with the windows shut. With my office window open, I could hear a young girl go “Woo!” I guess they were partying or something, and of course they were in front of their place. Surprisingly, there was no music. Still no dogs either.

Yesterday we weighed the pros and cons of moving with a travel trailer versus a U-Haul and it looks like the trailer may win. We could not only get more stuff in the trailer, but we could eat cheaper too, by cooking our own food, though we will eat in restaurants sometimes. We could also pull over and use the trailer’s bathroom when we have to go, rather than have to wait till we reach rest stops. Lastly, we’d hate to get there with a U-Haul and then have a hard time finding a trailer right away so we could have something to stay in till the room/bath is up.

We’re going to make sure we don’t drive at night because the weight of the trailer’s going to push the back of the truck down a bit, making the headlights shine upwards.

It’s going to be one long-assed trip! It’ll be fun and adventurous, though hard, I’m sure. I’m just sick of this ‘starting over’ thing we seem to do too much of. I just want to find a place and stay there for at least 15-20 years.

If we end up leaving on June 10th, then that’d mean I’d have lived here exactly 12 years and 1 day.

When I made the comment to Tom about how shocked Art and Doe will be to learn we moved to Oregon, he said maybe they wouldn’t even find out and maybe they’re not even alive anymore. I said no way. If they don’t find out through his family, they’ll find out some other way. Plus, if they died, Tammy would use that as a great excuse to get to me through his family. But he says it’s possible no one will notify me so I couldn’t dispute their will. I know these sick people, though. When we move, they’ll know it, though maybe not until Christmas when Ma sends them a holiday card, and when they die, I’ll know it.

Anyway, back to more important and pleasant things. We may set up a cabin kit to live in till more of the house gets built, rather than a dome. You can only have one house on these 2-acre lots, so I don’t know if we can do that. We’ve got to make it look more like a shed.

Later…

I’m both shocked and a little bummed that the Barbies only went for $13.50. I really expected them to jump in the last hour to at least $20, but the good news is that they raided the store. They got a handful of old books and software. What’s really amazing is that the cage sold for $20.50. That’s almost as much as I paid for it! My very first porcelain doll which I stole by mail when I lived at the Vista when I first came to Arizona, sold for a buck, and so did the Denise Austin 1-2-3 Tone-Up video/exercise equipment. The other thing to sell tonight that was up for auction was software for an old pinball game Tom’s had for centuries.

We received payment for the book lot, so now that’s 3 things from the last auction we’re waiting for payments on.

Tonight we listed a Madonna laser disc, 3 old Tom Wait LPs, some hardware, the big Critter Trail cage, and my old mini keyboard.