The Franco-Taiwanese Alliance

A month-long trip to France is, looking back on it, a massive shift in life.  I’m having a hard time remembering what regular life is supposed to be like, now that I’m back in Davis.  It’s been a good four days or so since we landed back in the US of A, and things still aren’t even close to back to normal.  The cats, luckily, forgave us pretty rapidly for abandoning them with friends for a month, so at least they’re doing their usual catty things.  The fish are still with a friend in the South Bay, and will be collected this weekend, when we go away from home for another few days.  Yay for fish and pageant events, I suppose.  We’ve spent these past few days taking care of a bunch of random things… money issues, food shopping, pet supplies and rehabilitation….  We did take a little time out to rent and watch Little Miss Sunshine (Lauren Shiohama, who plays the minor role of Miss California, deserves a great, big, hearty YO.), but that’s been about it for relaxation.  Aside from a three-hour stint of World of Warcraft and a go-karting outing with Ryan and James, for me.

I guess it never ends, really, having tons of things what need doin’.  We’re going back down to the South Bay again this weekend in order to see friends there, work a pageant event, and pick up the fish from Anne’s.  The house is still a mess, mail still needs to be sorted through and taken care of, a kitchen still needs to be cleaned and partially restocked….  We’re receiving a goldfish (set to be christened Lieutenant Tasha Yar, Chief of Security) who will need to be settled in.  After that, I can get started getting the motorcycles back up to decent running spec (new tires for Faye, new… uh… functioning for April), wash the cars and do some oil changes and other maintenance, read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows….

I’ve also got about 1100 photos from our France journey to sort through and upload and such.  I’m thinking about doing a daily retrospective on the trip, illustrated, of course, over the next month.  I was going to start immediately upon our return, but I think I’m going to set myself to start it on Tuesday.

Finally, a small administrative note… the blogs of Dani and James, both good friends of mine in the real world, have been added to the Links page.  Hi, guys!