DRL Echobox

I've been thinking about working on my blog some more lately - you know, adding separate sections for Music, Coding, Life etc. I'm trying to decide if I should use the open source project Mephisto to publish with, or to write my own from scratch. I like a lot about Mephisto, but I also prefer to know my code like the back of my hand, and Mephisto's liquid templates add a layer of impedance that I don't need.

On another subject, I'm in Austin right now moving my mom to San Jose. My dad is staying in Texas, where he practices law and has his brother's ranch to stay at. The house is supposed to be on the market in under a week and there is a 0% chance of it being clean (or even empty) by then.

As soon as the truck is packed, Mom and I take off down I-10, via El Paso to L.A., where we'll see Perry and Francine. Once I make it to San Jose, I switch from driving the 24 ft moving truck, to the smallest vehicle that can get me and my parents' vinyl back to Portland.

I feel like I'm on a combination Xtreme Reality moving show, and hit HBO family drama, only this is real. When I bought my plane ticket down here, I thought I'd be sharing driving duties with Mom in her (comparatively small) Chevy Tahoe. Now I've spent 3 days filling a van. Not that it's a total surprise.

I had a plan to blog the shit out of Nevada, but I don't think we'll drive through there. At least you can look forward to my blogging all 70 lbs of my parent's vinyl. I've even figured out a method to keep track of which one's I've listened to, so that I'll know when I've heard them all.