Another personal update

On a very personal note,

I have been trying to focus on my job duties since getting my
Sequoia back from the mechanic.     I have been hopping around from motel to motel
like a vagabond around Houston, occasionally staying at my estranged-wife's house and once at my
mom's.    I thought I would be semi-permanently back in a weekly-motel by now.   Surprisingly, there is a clean $ 50
motel in Houston ( and that includes taxes and fees ).

I found a rent house in a rural area west of Brenham that I really like, but the landlord is very suspicious of my
desire to live there ( 2003 South Berlin Road ).    It would be very risky to move there, since I never know where I am going
to be from day to day, and it would just wipe-out my budget, ( and I do not have any logical sane rational reason to live near Brenham. )

It has been 3 years I think, since I put my stuff in a rental storage unit ( in Brenham ), and started living out of a suit-case.   
Meaning my bed, my library,  picture frames, furniture, clothes, dishes, camping gear, and caving gear, and my office stuff.   
Some wise person once proclaimed, "do not let your possessions possess you."     I am certain they never paid $ 80 a month

rent or more storing their possessions.    Nor were they ever locked out of their storage unit.     They locked me out last week,
but I took care of it.

I will be in Mansfield ( south of Arlington ) this weekend, picking up my daughter from my sister and driving back to Arcola.

If any cavers are in the area, lets meet up for dinner.    281-995-8487

The good news, is that I have more work than I can handle.     I have been running my business using
ROSA R9 LXQt ( a GNU/Linux distro ) for about 3 weeks now.
   
[    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOzZa6_EbXs&t=741s  ]

End of Summer Family Road-trip

About 13 years ago, I announced on CaveTex that I was a participant in a soon-to-be pro-creation event.  This was met with much ridicule and praise.

Fast forward to the summer of 2017, and my daughter, ( who I nick-named, "CavePearl" ) will be 13 in just six weeks.   Time flies apparently, and I never had the chance to take her in a cave, or especially cave exploring.    ( Exception:   Richland Caverns tour when she was one, but she slept the entire tour in my chest-pack. )

This past weekend she and I ( along with my estranged-wife ) went on an end of the summer drive of 36 hours of intense pit-stops.  I had hoped to somehow, mix in a cave visit with all that, but it was not meant to be.

Ironically, this route was nearly identical to my drive to meet a caver near Fort Worth just seven weeks ago for the long road-trip to the NSS Convention. 

The second reason for this particular trip, was to recover all my camping gear that I had pulled out of the Sequoia, when the tow-truck driver in Fort Worth hauled it off.  I had had to stash that at a relative's house for the past 6 weeks  And the third reason for the trip, was to leave my daughter with relatives for a week.

See the link below for some photos ( and music ), but you have to click on the

show, after opening the link:

https://goo.gl/photos/gWiDvNuDk9aAmRrP9

The Sequoia performed great.

I now have 1,000 miles on the new ( but used ) engine.    I will have to make this return trip next week to pick her up.

P.S.

Pictures are of little places in east-central Texas.   The family photo is my estranged biological father, his wife and daughter ( my sister ) and her husband and my daughter and myself.     Probably a very rare photo of all of us.    The two nephews were asleep in the car.