I'm missing my friends in France, the comaraderie, laughs, concerns and, of course the random gossip. We said "two weeks" when we left, smiling and waving at A&R at the train station as we pulled out like a scene from an old movie. Then once back in warm, golden California (it's the weeds that are baked golden folks!) France faded into a lovely memory of warm afternoons with friends over a local wine, our ex-pat studded dinner parties and drives to the weekend brocantes (junk sales). Even now though if I open my Picassa application and see the France label my tale wags. Open an image and stare at it like a kid at a candy store window. Oh the flowers, the green hills, the forests, the old men and their loaves of warm bread, the old women brooming off their front steps. I'm here but part of me is there. I now spend some minutes every day looking up fares from San Francisco to good ol' CDG hoping for the oh-so-rare bargain fare. No luck yet. A return date is hard to pin down now too as we have decided that we will move into the Little House at 907 Suisun Street when the current tenant vacates which will be who-knows-when-though-we-are-trying. That last mouthful is because the lovely tenant failed to pay any rent this month (was due on the 1st and now it's the 20th) and we gave her a 3 day notice last week to pay rent or quit...that's what it's called here to no particular avail.
Actually we enlisted the services of a lawyer to do the job for us at a cost of about 1 months rent, so now we are poorer by 2 months rent. They presented her with a Unlawful Detainer summons tocourt on Tuesday which gives her 5 days to answer to the court in person before they hail the Sherrif (not of Nottingham but of Solano)
to evict her and her wares from our new living place. Complicated isn't it? It's really terrible, I don't know what has gone wrong with her life but something obviously but she never answerred our phone calls or pleaded anything to us in mercy of her situation so we did what we have done. I don't like it, she's been in the place and taken good care of it inside with new paint and repairs as she went along these last six years. I balked at first at the action but now...it's done and I'm getting excited to move in and fix up the ancient old place! We LOVE projects! It will be one that's for sure. Unlawful Detainer...hmmmmmm.
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Oh...cool new site feature: http://kukuklok.com/ an online alarm clock for all you that keep your machine on 24/7. Simple to use, set the wake up time, choose which alarm you want...cock, clock, electronic or metal guitar and as long as the bloody machine doesn't belly up or the electricity fails you will have an ontime alarming experience. Lute says 4 Stars for this simple but very cool and useful net app!
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