Moving to Idaho

How about that last trance track? Just so bouncy happy, it almost makes it all worth while.
Shut up Gary. You don't have to hit play you know <grin>

Well, as of this weekend its finally official. I finally feel like I can talk about what we have been slowly losing our minds over..... We've sold the house in Temecula and are headed north.
Lots of reasons and one big main one that I will not talk about.
Bottom line. Change of state, change of house and change of jobs.
Super nervicited. (Terry's word, nervous and excited mushed together).

Ok enough about that. What about Idaho.

Well, for starters, its got a really nice summer workshop.
Yes, summer (Ok and a few months either side)... From.. I dunno, about like November to March they have this weird white stuff that falls out of the sky and makes everything cold, wet and miserable.
Very unfun to be in a shed trying to work on anything.
So, yeah, I also have - as you all know as I have blogged about it a few trance tracks back - a basement. My soon-to-be-not-so-much radioactive basement will be the winter office.
The house is a bit smaller than the one we have and it needs a little lot of love.
They say real estate is all about location location location and this is no different.

Yeah, we bought the house next door to Amy (our daughter), Cole, son-in-law and of course Lee, the little dude in the pool. (And no, he is NOT 'the' unspoken reason for the move).

In the next week or so we will finish up at Opto, pack a 26-foot U-Haul truck, put the Bolt on a flat-bed trailer behind it, and with Freddy in the Ridgeline following behind, we will drive north. Probably our longest drive up. I'm thinking 3 days and 2 overnight motel stops. Freddy's knees can't take 12-hour days behind the wheel and I know from the last drive up that Salt Lake City is a kidney bruiser.
Then the new chapter starts. First up, reno the place (we are currently renting, but will buy as soon as the money for our place comes through) as right now, just for starters, the upstairs crapper does not really flush. Of course, we need to suck the radon out and, well, yeah, just get the place safe and livable. (The electrics are also a mess, but I figure with a few hours, I can beat those electrons into better shape).
Once the house is 'tweaked' (I'm putting it kindly), we can move the stuff out of the shed into the house and then I can setup a work bench in the summer shop and get to work.

And yes, top of mind in the middle of all this is my ACARS (aircraft 'tracking') website.
It will go down - well, to be more accurate, the site itself will be fine, the MQTT broker will go down, so yeah, the website will be up, but the feeds to the site will go down. That will be super confusing to folks.
I'm quite sure that will annoy a TON of avgeeks that pay exactly nothing to use the site. It really is 'best effort' and I can't beat myself up that they are unhappy with me doing my best.
I am really nervous about the Internet up there, the ISP (TDS) customer service is some of THE worst of ANY company I have EVER dealt with. I have about 1% confidence of getting the service I am going to pay for (1g/1g with an IPv4 address), so we will just have to see how that goes at the start of the move-in. (Limited fiber ISPs up north).

That's the guts of it. There is a lot more to tell around a campfire, but the most significant thing in it all is the change of heart I have undergone with a lot of key aspects to the move.
I never expected to be so humbled and come to see the healing that is required, so I am focused on trying to repair my mind and soul as much as I can. It's been a profound few months going through the physical and mental work of moving on.

It's a bit like the cables in my roof. I have all these up there, I've used them, I've gathered data via them, but how many are needed for life support? Three.
I am going through the mental process of ripping out all the stuff that I have been using for data that is not really core to who I am... Anyway, as I hinted, there is more to this move than photos or words can show and say.