The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[CanadienneBacon]

Nice to see you, btw. I haven't heard much of you since witnessing your largesse to EN World last year in the Meta section. If I ever get back to PbP (which iddn't likely at this juncture), want me to give you a holler? Then you and I can both fall of the "wagon" together when I later burn out on gaming.

And...double HA!...now not only do we have a pack-out date for the movers to come pack our belongings, but we have airfare ordered up for the very, very end of January. I grow more excited by the day. I even looked at snow boots today in a store.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

And...double HA!...now not only do we have a pack-out date for the movers to come pack our belongings, but we have airfare ordered up for the very, very end of January. I grow more excited by the day. I even looked at snow boots today in a store.

Maybe you should hold off on buying the boots until you get to Indy.

How the heck are you getting your belongings there anyway?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Yes hive I'm here! Just got back from my six month anniversary date with Mandy. Boy, it was something else all right.

Mandy took me to The Compass Room and we had damn good eats. Afterwards we went to the the Cine Capri to see National Treasure 2. Boy, what a great movie!

 

[CanadienneBacon]

How the heck are you getting your belongings there anyway?

We got out of the Navy in August. Navy benefits allow separating families to move from their last duty station to their home of record within six months of separating from the service. Since we are rapidly coming up on our six-month separation "anniversary," as we like to call it ( ), it was time to get off the pot and decide once and for all whether we were going to tough it out in Hawaii financially or move home. We chose to move home where we already own property and have family.

The Navy will pay for the move, of both us and our stuff. We have two vehicles and are allowed to ship only one, though, so the full-size van that I currently drive to schlepp around the children will have to be sold. Hopefully we will roll that money back into another used full-size van once we alight in Indiana. I like driving a big van! You can fit your whole family, extra friends or family, and camping gear. My husband's car will likely take precedence, however. He has a '65 Mustang fastback that he has owned since he was 15. His father overhauled it for him and since it is both worth more than our van and carries with it quite a lot of nostalgia (and is sort of a unique item, if you will), we will have the Navy ship the Mustang home at Navy expense. Guess you could almost call it an Artifact.

So, yeah. Your tax dollars at work. Sometimes when I start to feel guilty about all the nice military benefits we luxuriated in for so many years, I remind myself that it's been nearly ten years since I live in the States and that half the time we were in the service, my spouse was not at home. And that's not even counting when I was in the service, too. We have definitely had to re-tool our expenses since we got out of the Navy in August, but it has been worth it just for the children to have their dad at home every night.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

The Navy will pay for the move, of both us and our stuff.

Well thats good. I imagine it would be freakin' expensive otherwise.

 

[Aeson]

Cheer up froggy. I'd go ona a date with you.

Hey! If you go out on a date with one hiver, you have to go out on one with all of us. It's like a rule or something.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Or...

we all go on a date en masse with each other.

...but wouldn't that kind of be equivalent to just staying home, hiding behind our computer screens, yakking one another up on the Hive?

Conclusion: we are all already dating one another, have been for years, and Aeson is the last to know.

 

[Aeson]

Or...

we all go on a date en masse with each other.

...but wouldn't that kind of be equivalent to just staying home, hiding behind our computer screens, yakking one another up on the Hive?

Conclusion: we are all already dating one another, have been for years, and Aeson is the last to know.

I think that shows how little you know me.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Hey! If you go out on a date with one hiver, you have to go out on one with all of us. It's like a rule or something.

Unless you wanna fly out to PV AZ to go on a date with my cousin, good luck.

 

[Aeson]

Unless you wanna fly out to PV AZ to go on a date with my cousin, good luck.

I don't think I would let that stop me. I need a change of scenery. AZ looked nice from the air a few years ago. I wonder what it looks like on the ground.