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<\/a><\/p>\nWe are busy because we have a plane to catch on Saturday morning, and before then we need to get the Airstream ready for storage, get ahead on work as much as possible, pack, relocate the Airstream to storage (about 100 miles away), and then get ourselves to LAX.<\/p>\n
We’ve done this dance before, so we know the steps. \u00a0 A little networking found us a safe place to store the Airstream, and the process of putting it to bed for a week or two isn’t difficult. \u00a0 The fridge will remain running on propane, and the solar panels will keep the batteries topped up. \u00a0 All the really valuable stuff will be with us (mostly the laptops and cameras), and the trailer will be well cleaned so that critters will not be encouraged to sublet the place. \u00a0 It will be ready to go when we return from our trip.<\/p>\n
As always on Thanksgiving, I try to give a few minutes to count blessings, and this year we have many. \u00a0 I’m thankful to still be in business doing something I enjoy and which gives us this interesting lifestyle. \u00a0 We’re all in good health, our future is bright (if not totally assured), and the people we care about are all doing well. \u00a0 There are many things to be concerned about but today is not the day for that. \u00a0 Today is the “glass half full” day.<\/p>\n
Happy Thanksgiving to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0We are very busy now, trying to get ready for our vacation next week, so it’s a good thing we got an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner. \u00a0 Eleanor contributed only gravy, and otherwise we left the cooking to our friends (and found ourselves in very good hands, indeed!) We are busy because we have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>On the way back from dinner tonight we stopped for gas, and I was treated to an increasingly-common phenomenon: an annoying television blasting loud commercials at me about skin cream and bogus ways to make money buying distressed real estate. \u00a0 I’ve encountered this before, but this was the first time I’ve seen one without a “mute” button. \u00a0 (Robert Heinlein foresaw this; I can’t remember if it was in “Podkayne of Mars” or one of his Lazarus Long stories. In the story it was in a taxi cab, and a bribe to the cabbie made the screaming ads go away.)<\/p>\n<\/a>I should have used the adjacent gas pump, where the ad system had crashed. \u00a0 That’s increasingly common too, since these systems are often based on Microsoft Windows. \u00a0 (If you find this amusing, check out Miguel Carrasco’s site<\/a>.) \u00a0 So here’s the glass-half-full portion: This proves there is a good reason for Windows to exist after all. \u00a0 It gives us a good chance of avoiding obnoxious ads!<\/p>\n