It begins

The auto transport company picked up our Civic today. It's the first piece of our belongings to head to Florida. The die is cast. Now everything starts clicking into place, one thing following another following another, until we find ourselves in a land of 90-degree October days and non-transplanted palm trees.

JJ's last shift was Sunday night, so we're both shiftless lay-abouts at the moment. From two incomes to homeless jobless bums in two quick weeks. Luckily, that situation will resolve itself within another week. We'll have to make a quick call before our belongings arrive -- a 3-month lease in yet another apartment complex and an immediate house search, or a year-old lease in a rental house that gives ourselves an out in case Florida isn't for us, but means even longer until we're settled.

We're both still too absorbed in leaving our jobs to make a rational decision here, so we're letting it percolate in the back of our minds, taking up valuable cycles.