packing up

Well, we’re all moved out of our apartment now and are staying at Alisha’s parents’ house in Oceanside for the few days before we go. During the past four days we have been very busy packing, cleaning, and moving, and we’ve really appreciated the help that our friends were able to give. We’ve been able to relax a bit since coming down here–there was a Birds of Yore show on Thursday which is always a lot of fun. Their new song “Carnival” is positively great; hopefully it gets posted to the web site with the rest of their demo soon.

Loren on the cello

There’s still a lot going on what with making sure we’re well-packed for the trip and making sure the stuff that we have to keep here is out of the way, but it’s definitely been a slower pace, which is a relief. Last night we headed out to grab some coffee at a local coffee shop at 9:30pm, making us feel like we were back in school. I really get the feeling that the local art/music community here is a lot stronger than it is up where we used to live. Every coffee shop has events lined up, and it’s really inviting. While we were at the coffee shop, Loren made up a game called Monolith which I coded up today; give it a shot if you’ve got a minute.

Tomorrow is Easter. It really feels like lots of Holy Week has been lost in the chaos of everything that’s going on, which is a shame. We leave next Monday for a 24-hour flight… that will be an adventure. I wasn’t really paying enough attention when the tickets were booked, so we ended up with a five-hour layover in LAX (yuck!) following our turboprop hop up from Carlsbad. Ah, international flight! It has been too long.

coffee shop bonfire