Update

I don't know if anyone is still checking or reading this blog but I thought I'd provide a little update on the Moyer/Rodriguez household. Hawaii seems like a distant dream at this point especially since it is rainy and cold today and the leaves are all changing. I'm sitting in my living room looking out the window and there's no ocean there. We are coming up on the one year anniversary of Luis' return from the war.

The endless move finally ended over the weekend when we had our garage sale and got rid of most of the boxes and extra furniture. The weather was perfect for a garage sale but we had the misfortune of scheduling our garage sale on the same day as the Kansas City Marathon and a visit from Barack Obama just down the street at Penn Valley Park. Half the roads around us were closed at different times of the day. Still we had enough customers to get rid of most of the stuff. What didn't sell on Saturday sold on Sunday when our neighbors continued their sale and some customers wandered over to our house to see what was left in the garage where Luis was puttering. He's been spending a lot of time in that garage since we moved but he spent a year in Iraq where he didn't even have a garage so I won't hold it against him.

I am still unemployed trying to figure out what I want to be. I've been applying for a few jobs and volunteering at the archives of the Jackson County Historical Society. Specifically I'm working on the courthouse project going through court files from the 1800's to catalog the contents for future researchers. It's some interesting stuff. Cases range from messy divorces to personal injury cases involving the collision of a horse and buggy and a wagon with two mules to a multitude of promissory note cases. I think that the best thing to happen to the legal profession was the invention of typewriters then computers. Lawyers give doctors a run for the money when it comes to bad handwriting. I can only do 3 hour shifts because trying to read olde tyme chicken scratches is really hard and leads to headaches. I also have to figure out the abbreviations. I already knew that Wm was short for William but why is Jno short for John? How is that really a timesaver?

Luis is working like a dog again and spending a lot of time driving between the commute to Leavenworth and transporting the girls back and forth to Olathe. Mia the cat sleeps all day in order to conserve energy to play vigorously with her mouse toy at 4:00 am. I've been spending too much time on the computer following politics much too closely. It's unhealthy and I can't wait for this election to be over.