This Is Not a Blog Post

I know, I know…you got all excited when your RSS feeder buzzed or you saw a new title here on the Impish Gren. But sorry to say, this isn’t really a blog post. I’m not here to share new goings-on exactly. Instead, I’m here to discuss other blog posts; some already posted, some soon to arrive. Together, these past and future posts can shed a bit of light on what this rather lazy blogger has been up to of late. But this post, in and of itself, has almost no real information within it.

First the stuff from the past. A couple weeks ago (has it really been that long?) my fellow Blogfathers, Mark and Simon, descended upon my humble city in search of amusement and comradery. It was the first of what we hope will become recurring get-togethers and given amount of fun we all seemed to have, that looks likely. I had big plans of writing up a detailed retelling of exactly what happened while they were here…but see…Mark is just so much more diligent that I am. He started posting this tale the day his plane landed back in Dallas. Fact is, I had so much fun following along with his telling that I pretty much gave up any illusion that I was going to do the same in my own voice. Instead, I’ll put up this non-post and tell anyone interested in seeing the blast we had over the May 10th weekend to jog over to Mark’s site. That link will take you to the first of, like, six posts he did on the weekend. Like I said, diligent. And if a tale about me isn’t enough to get you over there…there are a few pictures of Norah as well.

Now on to the future…next week, in fact. By the time the sun rises this Tuesday, I will be at the airport preparing to depart for Arizona. What will follow will be a grueling tale I look forward to complaining about for years to come. As you know, the company I work for and own (a teeny-tiny fraction of) sold all of its stores back in February. I had anticipated that this would mean less work for me and a swift absence of a job. Instead, the chaos that ensued meant more work right after the sale and a slow dwindling of my job. It now looks like I’ll be done there by mid-June…we’ll see. Anyway, each of our 40 or so stores had a bunch of old computer equipment and loads of paperwork. At first our Pres and CEO said, “forget all that stuff, it’s not worth the trip out there to get it.” As much as it pained me to let all those electronics go to waste, I couldn’t really disagree with him and was more than happy to ignore the problem. However, about a week ago, the Pres came to the conclusion that while the hardware was still not worth the trip…the paperwork was. Mad rushing about followed as I booked a flight to Tucson, Arizona and a 24-foot moving truck in time to gather the boxes and equipment from 23 or so of the remote locations before the deadline imposed by the folks that bought our stores: May 31st. After that…they start pitching stuff, they say.

Ok, so flight out on Tuesday, twenty-seven hours of drive time along my route (not counting the jogs from store to store) and figuring about 1 hour load-time per store I calculate I should hit my last store in Columbia, Missouri about an hour before closing time on Saturday, May 31st. If I fall behind schedule, I miss the last store.

I’m planning to bring my camera and laptop along for the ride. And since wireless access is fairly ubiquitous in hotels these days, I should (given a lack of exhaustion) be able to post the day’s events on a nightly basis from my hotel. Once again…we’ll see, but I wanted to lay the groundwork now so that I don’t have to waste precious, precious minutes explaining the set-up on Tuesday night.

Stay tuned.

Moksha Tracker

• Miles Driven: 0
• Miles to Go: 1,996

• Tucson, AZ: 3 Stores


• Phoenix, AZ: 3 Stores


• Albuquerque, NM: 3 Stores


• Oklahoma City, OK: 4 Stores


• Tulsa, OK: 2 Stores


• Wichita, KS: 3 Stores


• Topeka, KS: 1 Store and a Huge Storage Locker


• Lawrence, KS: 1 Store


• Kansas City, KS: 1 Store


• Columbia, MO: 1 Store