We wait; for our second shots; for the power to come back on; for the phone system install to be completed; for Washington politics to put the past behind us and move forward; for quotes from another project; for data so I can complete a power point presentation; not for Godot! 

Much of this waiting has me up in the early morning just like in the old days when I worked. I know as soon as I get caught up and the deadlines have passed; I will find a way to create or accept new ones. 

I wrote the above a month ago and never got back to it; most of the waiting is past. The politics have moved on; and the telephone project I worked on for over a year is complete. We are doing the final verification that everything works. I spent much of the day going to sites on my list that did not answer the phone so I could verify that they rang. 

Somehow the idea crossed my mind that with this project complete I might find nothing to do. I heard that a committee to search out back up power generators for critical areas in the resort needed a chair. I don’t know much about generators; but I know how to organize a committee and delegate work. So I have been meeting with our Maintenance Manager and another volunteer who is a retired electrical contractor and various vendors. When the quotes come in, I’ll get the committee together to review the results and make a decision to take to the community and to the Board. Then I will need to find some other way to keep busy. Carol says the next projects will fall in my lap, or more likely on my head.

We have made a couple of trips to San Diego to get Carol vaccinated and a couple of trips to Menifee to get me vaccinated. Somehow we were not able to get our shots on the same day; at the same place; but we are both vaccinated and in another week we will both be two weeks out. A certain sense joy and freedom is greeting many of us as we are getting our shots. Still wearing masks and keeping our distance, but it is more about making everyone feel included and safe.

When we were in San Diego we met with Jing and Ron. Jing was a caregiver to my mother; providing massage therapy when she was in the Summit and later when she was in the nursing home. They have a lovely apartment with great views of the harbor and over the airport. We walked to a Japanese restaurant where we were able to be seated outdoors. The weather was fine and we had a grand time. The drive to San Diego is about 90  minutes and there are mountain routes and coastal routes if we don’t need to scurry along the freeway. 

For now we are looking forward to some quiet time with zoom meetings. We are starting to think about what our schedule might look like after April. We do love it here, but hitch itch will rear its ugly head one day and it would be nice to have some sort of thoughts. Maybe Rock Spring WY for Escapade in July would work with a trip back to Rochester for Jazz Fest the end of July on the RIT Campus? But that only takes care of July. Will there be any hope of driving to Canada and putting Saskatchewan and Manitoba on our list of states and provinces finally? I doubt it.  People talk about plans, we talk about hopes. People reserve campsites months in advance, we call from the road at 2 PM  unless we really know where we want to be next week. 

Watch this space for decisions.