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Houston, we’ve had a problem here…

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Those famous words were uttered during the Apollo 13 flight.  However, we have not quite ‘flown’ yet.

We moved our mattress out of our master bedroom on Thursday night.  We returned the mattress to Costco (another story).  That meant we needed to stay out in the trailer from now on.  OK with me!

When I got out there in the evening I turned on the refrigerator to allow it time to cool down for Sunday evening launch.  But it would not come on!  No lights, nothing.  Oddly I was able to sleep just fine as I knew I couldn’t do anything that night.

The next morning I ran through a bunch of troubleshooting and determined it was either the circuit board or the control board.  I went to the local RV repair and talked to the head technician.  He stated that he hasn’t replaced a control board in about 5 years but replaces a circuit board every 2-3 months or so.  That was enough for me and had them order the circuit board for me.  It should be here Monday.  Now it very well could be the control board but I will replace that anyway.

Therefore, I will put the part in on Monday.  If it starts cooling we will wait and leave on Tuesday.  If it does not work we will order the other part, have it delivered to my mother’s house and take off with no refrigerator.

I will keep all of you posted…

Surrealness abounds!

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To catch you up on our story…

I retired the end of last year and our plans are to get the heck out of the state of California.  I am a native born Californian and I cannot stand how this state has changed.  We are going to create a domicile in Texas (initially) and will head there first to register the trailer and get drivers licenses.  Therefore we are prepping our house, truck, and trailer for this transition.

This is Thursday night and our launch date is this Sunday and it is getting really weird around here!  We have just removed our bed from the bedroom and will sleep in the trailer for the next 3 nights.  The bedroom has the headboard, footboard and 2 end tables.  Previously we have moved our armoire, dresser, and chest into our small bedroom.  We are ‘renting’ a climate controlled storage from our son who is renting the entire house from us.  We have a pantry and a few kitchen things to go through.

Roxie has gone through her clothes, as have I, and she leads the race, 2 bins to 1!  It is very weird to go through all of your things and determine its disposition (discard/donate, store at home, take along).  We have gotten rid of numerous items throughout the house, we are lightening up!

Now we just have to now load things into the trailer and the truck.  That should easily take Friday and Saturday.

I have tried to organize the items that are in the bins with a spreadsheet.  The spreadsheet lists the contents with the bin ‘number’.  I hope this makes it easier to find.

Today I went back to my old office for a visit as a coworker also decided to retire and they had his ceremony.  It was a good time to say goodbye to people there.

Although things are surreal now, I think they are going to get moreso.