My apologies, faithful readers - it has been a very busy summer, and I have been amiss in updating you. Well, here is brief synopsis: the weather got really hot, work got really weird, and the Reserves got really intense. I got a Kentucky State driver's license, finally cutting the last of my official ties with Massachusetts (however, I have a bad feeling that MA won't give up so easily without a fight, and might still try to keep me on the tax rolls - I mean,
once a Massachusetts citizen,
always a citizen, right?). How else are they going to pay for all that mandatory health care in the Commonwealth? KY and MA do share a few things, though: they both love bureaucracy, and believe that customer service is for those
other states (you know, the ones that return your phone calls?). I found that getting a driver's licence is an exercise in zen-like patience in both the Commonwealth of MA and KY (and that a lot of angry people get jobs at the respective Departments of Motor Vehicles, but I digress...). But now the deed has been done, and I am officially (for the first time in my life) not listed as a resident of MA. Hmmm... it is not much different (somehow I expected fireworks... even small ones).
Anyhow, aside from that, the summer has been rather ho-hum: we had only two real thunderstorms (unlike
last summer), and the only real excitement stems from my daily commute on 31W. I understand that Maru-chan has found a new home (did I mention that good ol' Maru-chan has been replaced?). Still, the
New Life continues on, and I cannot complain (it is, T-plus one year and four months later, much better than it was when I first packed up and headed down here). May it continue!
My apologies, faithful readers - it has been a very busy summer, and I have been amiss in updating you. Well, here is brief synopsis: the weather got really hot, work got really weird, and the Reserves got really intense. I got a Kentucky State driver's license, finally cutting the last of my official ties with Massachusetts (however, I have a bad feeling that MA won't give up so easily without a fight, and might still try to keep me on the tax rolls - I mean, once a Massachusetts citizen, always a citizen, right?). How else are they going to pay for all that mandatory health care in the Commonwealth? KY and MA do share a few things, though: they both love bureaucracy, and believe that customer service is for those other states (you know, the ones that return your phone calls?). I found that getting a driver's licence is an exercise in zen-like patience in both the Commonwealth of MA and KY (and that a lot of angry people get jobs at the respective Departments of Motor Vehicles, but I digress...). But now the deed has been done, and I am officially (for the first time in my life) not listed as a resident of MA. Hmmm... it is not much different (somehow I expected fireworks... even small ones). 
Anyhow, aside from that, the summer has been rather ho-hum: we had only two real thunderstorms (unlike last summer), and the only real excitement stems from my daily commute on 31W. I understand that Maru-chan has found a new home (did I mention that good ol' Maru-chan has been replaced?). Still, the New Life continues on, and I cannot complain (it is, T-plus one year and four months later, much better than it was when I first packed up and headed down here). May it continue!
