The final countdown

Hello all,

Well, today I finished my last final. So school is now complete for me for another semester! It's been a crazy time recently with photo projects, research papers, web site projects and trying to get everything ready for departure! But, things are starting to gel. Thanks to all those Professors who have been supportive and have ignored my slightly more stressed than usual pappearance. James has been frantically busy at UC trying to finish up all of his stuff, not to mention all the things I keep asking him to do here as well!

Tomorrow we will be shipping our books over to Spain. James has about 15 books he will be using while he is there, and I have about 10. For those of you who need to ship things overseas, we have discovered that the USPS does flat rate boxes to most of the world for $37. The maximum weight of the box is 20lb's so we are sending four! But considering Fedex and UPS wanted $380 for a 55lb box, this is a steal!

Also tomorrow is the packing. How do you pack for 6 months? Well, thankfully we are limited to our two bags each, so that will help constrain us I suppose. I also have all the technology stuff to pack as well; portable hard drives, camera gear, phones, networking stuff, laptops, walkie talkies and so on! We aim to have it all done by tomorrow night as we leave around 9am on Thursday morning. Plus I have a dentist appointment for a filling and a car service tomorrow as well! What fun!

For those of you who are here for the photogrpahy, I have setup a flickr pro account. It's empty currently, but you can check it out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidnmartin98 It is set up to push photos into this blog, so that should be in action once we have stuff to show you.

Well, time to head toward the to-do list....We will try and post before we leave on Thursday morning. Oh, and I also turned on anonymous commenting to the blog, so you shouldn't have to have a Google account now to leave comments!

Have a great evening!


D&J