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Kind of sad today. I sold my Mini. Make that my beloved Mini. I shouldn’t be so sad, as I’ll be getting a new one when I get to the "other side" next week, back home to California. Still, some cars have souls, and I’ll really miss my baby. And that got me thinking about the cars I’ve had [...]
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And the big move back to California continues. Friday, a key step: booking the tickets home time. July 9 is the day. So it’s 30 days and counting down to getting back to the Golden State. Booking tickets was a pretty funny experience. First I went through my regular travel agent. Get me four one-way tickets! Who books one-way tickets? [...]
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There’s nothing like a move to help you realize just how much stuff, and unnecessary stuff at that, you accumulate over time. As our household goods now head by sea to California, it’s life kind of out of a suitcase for the next six weeks. And that minimalist life is pretty refreshing. I often tell friends about one of [...]
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The moving plans continue. Later this week, a company comes to take away half our stuff. Later this month, the other half goes. So there’s a lot of cleaning and deciding of what really needs to go. And in Britain when you do a clear out, you don’t have a garage sale. Instead, you go to a car [...]
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Twelve years after leaving Newport Beach, I’m almost back to living here again. The past three weeks we’ve been on vacation in Newport, getting the boys used to coming back and making various arrangements. And as part of that return, I’ve had the strangest sense of a needle dropping back down on a record after being lifted or a [...]
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I figured it was time for an update on the Big Move Back To California. Before I start, let’s have a movie! Check out the clip below (sorry, I can’t get it to stop playing automatically), and you’ll understand some of the pain I’ve had in front of me the past few months:
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It’s been just over a week since we decided to make the move back to Orange County from Britain, and I thought I’d keep blogging about how it is all going. So far, the big relief is that the kids are totally on board. Like they want to be there now. It’s kind of fun, that anything they don’t like [...]
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After 12 years of living in the UK, I’m going home — back to Southern California, back to Newport Beach. This will be a fairly personal post about the decision my family has made, but my blog was supposed to be for more than writing about gadgets and computers and donuts. Good writing is often deeply personal, and I [...]
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