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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
it's not that we need you gone of course, but it would be nice to see you write about a different subject, like, the actual (not imagined) taste of kangaroo taco.
so-- when?
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June / July
I'm juggling about a thousand things right now. my visa takes "3-6 months" and then I must travel to Oz shortly after its approval. our son will be born around the end of March. at that point, we need to wait a few weeks for the birth certificate, send that to Oz to establish citizenship and then send it all back for an Aussie passport for the boy. on top of this, I have two cats who need scheduling for quarantine to match about the time we arrive (they have to spend a month in jail). trying to find the gravitational keyhole that allows me to do it all in one trip is trying.
lease in Austin is up 1st of May and the wife will be off work, so we plan to move back to LA to await paperwork processing (and let my mother spend time with our child while she can).
I plan to sell the car, liquidate all furnishings and crap we don't plan to ship. there'll be friends receiving art supplies out the ass once we go. finding a slow-boat transport for the things we do intend to take (like my mixing board) is just another item on the ever-growing list... I can't help but look at all my stuff and think about what I aim to just throw away.
coming to TexASS was a wise choice, due to easy employment and friends-who-are-like-family, but I'm
done with it. I wanted to be near my son for a few more years, and give my wife a taste of 'murrca while it was still possible, and I've accomplished that. the day that I never have to see another giant white dual-axel King's Ranch Motherfuxing Texas Pickemup Truck again, cannot come soon enough.
I'd never usually bother to discuss any of this in public, but I fear you are right. In my zeal, I talk about Oz often, but still remain stateside.
as dem bredrin', I, I & I mon say:
time be time. soon come.
anyone know a good international moving company? right now, I'm looking at $1,000 for about 100 sq. feet of boxed goods. that about covers my wife's side of the closet.