Sickness, Friends and Teardrop Trailers

Hello faithful reader(s).  I know I've been remiss.  It's been far too long since my words of wisdom have graced the screen of your lap top.  You see, life's not easy.  Things happen.  Excuses abound.  I've been sick.  Lost interest in most things for the last two weeks of December. I had a cold that had me coughing so hard a pulled muscles in my side and then I spent two weeks trying to prevent gravity from making the sharp side pain worse. I ended up hooking two velcro based knee wraps together and wrapping them around my stomach.  Cheap and effective.  I'm pretty much back to normal now except for my ongoing struggle with obsessiveness.  My current obsession is the teardrop trailer Dorothy and I decided to buy.  It's a flashy little number custom made by a guy in Toledo.  We'll be driving out there to pick it up in April.

Pretty snazzy huh?  I sent a picture of it to my brother-in-law Jim and he called it a "pimp mobile."  I guess the chrome sides are a little over the top but I'm not sure I want my retirement years to be understated.  I wanna shine man!  

The friend's part of this blog has to do with the trailer.  Dorothy and I are planning on moving to Binghamton in May to be closer to our daughter Joanna and Dorothy's brother Jack and his wife Ellen.  I was initially resistant to the idea of moving because I've developed important friendships here, especially with the people I golf with.  So we came up with this plan to find a way for me to travel and live around Albany two or three days a week to golf and maintain relationships.  Hence the pimp mobile.  Just how it will all work is still being worked out but I'm excited about the options this trailer opens up above and beyond making a Binghamton move more palatble..  Adirondack campgrounds,  traveling south in the winter, etc.  Plus we'll pull it with our Sentra.  Cheap and effective.  Do you see a pattern here?

My daughter Katie and her husband Brian continue their world-wide jaunt.  You can keep track of their exploits at www.newlywedsabroad.blogspot.com   They seem to be having the time of their lives.  We've been having video chats via Skype. An amazing cheap and effective tool.

Next blog I'll try to get back to deeper stuff.  Right now I'm focusing on how I'm going to go to the bathroom and change my clothes in the teardrop.  C'est la vie.