One of those nights where I am reminded why I will not miss this place during thunderstorm season. For anyone trying to enter my airspace from the west, northern New Mexico is effectively thirty miles wide for over a hundred miles inbound. After two hours of airplanes deviating in similar ways around an almost stationary mass of precipitation, I would have thought the confederacy of dunces to the southeast would pick up on what is being put down. But I'm not sure I'll have the pleasure of watching mediocrity being defined downward by people making $30,000 or more than me, for the same work or less, once I'm in law school. So I'll savor these moments as they occur. (/bitter)

The first month's rent arrived yesterday. Electricity; check. Gas; check. Water; check. DSL; check. Everything should work from the moment I walk in the door on August 1.

Almost everything I intend to move is in a box. The remainder is either furniture or items that collectively will take less than one hour to put in boxes.

My property management representative's father is having surgery of some kind on the weekend I move, so she may not be able to greet me in person on arrival. If not, she will FedEx the key to me next week.

Fuel stops are planned.

My bike is getting its warranty maintenance at REI, and I'll have it back on the 22nd.