Coming up on a tack.

Remember how I compared living here to sailing a boat?   Long periods of relative inactivity interspersed with moments of shear terror?  Well,  that's the way the saying goes,  I read it some where.   I don't think "moments of shear terror"  exactly applies,  but it does sound better.
More like,  "heightened activity".

Here's what I'm talking about.  Never mind that I'll be taking Travelling Companion to the airport this afternoon for a trip to Denmark.  That's just your run of the mill business kind of thing.  She has to do some sort of financial whatchamacallit,  and will be back late tomorrow (Thursday) night.
Fine,  it's a "Balance Sheet Review".   I actually do know what it's called,  I just don't really care.
 No,  what I'm talking about is more along the lines of some of the upcoming shared activities.  Later on towards the end of March,   she'll be spending the better part of a week in Barcelona for the annual meeting of the "Top Team",  and I'll be heading there on the Friday to hang out for the weekend.   She'll go on to Bilbao for another financial whatchamacallit,  and I'll come home.   Should be just fine,  I've never been to Barcelona.  I hear they speak Spanish.
 Then towards the end of May,  we'll be getting a visitor from Slovenia for a weekend,  who is actually an acquaintance of one of our daughters whom we met last summer.   It's one of those selling stuff on the internet and you meet people kind of things.    Nice young lady who is attending some sort of fashion show here in Wienerland.   Has to do with the jewellery she makes.   Seems to me it will be worn by some of the models?   I'll let you know.
 Then,  right around that time,  and we haven't firmed up these dates just yet,  one of Travelling Companion's nephews is coming over for a couple weeks to check out some "Musical Hotspots".   Not sure how else to put that.  He's a bit of a classical music buff,  and wants to do the Prague,  Salzburg,  Bonn,  Vienna kind of thing.   We'll probably go with him to Salzburg,  since we've never been,  and drive him down to Slovenia.   Rumour has it that Travelling Companion is actually going to take some vacation!
I know!
Mind you,  I'll believe it when I see it. 

She's never ever taken all the vacation she's been entitled to,  but I'd just as soon not get off on that particular rant.   This topic came up in an off handed kind of way when we briefly touched on the subject of owning a motorhome for ten years.  Not enough free time to really enjoy it.  I didn't really want to get into that one either.

So to continue with the analogy,   we've made sure nobody is standing on the leeward sheet,  and we're about to come up into the wind.



Oh,  and by the way,  the taps are working just fine,  thank-you.




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