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Maybe My Busiest Day Ever

05:55 – Alarm Goes Off
05:56 – Hit Snooze
06:15 – Get out of Bed
06:30 – Shacharit Begins
06:40 – I walk into Shacharit
07:00 – Shacharit Ends
07:10 – Arrive at Car Wash, begin vacuuming car
07:25 – Finish Vacuuming Car
07:40 – Get home, hold Moshe

08:00 – Clear off table, wine rack, Pack and Play, bring items to car
08:20 – Arrive at Stop & Shop
08:25 – Begin to eat what may be my last S&S Chocolate Chip Muffin ever
08:28 – mmm…Chocolate Chip Muffin….
08:35 – Enter Car Wash (Express Wash please)
08:45 – Finish cleaning out the inside of the car
09:05 – Arrive at my parent’s house, drop off table, wine rack, Pack and Play, etc. Pick up stuff that we left there
09:25 – Leave parent’s house
09:40 – Arrive at Target. Purchase Neosporin, Digital Thermometer and Duffel Bag (or at least what Target calls a duffel bag. If you ask me, it is just a big bag, not a duffel…)
10:05 – Leave Target
10:25 – Arrive at Rubins. Pick up Deli order
10:40 – Realize that I have an 11:00 meeting at work
10:50 – Drop off things at home. My wife signs the title to our car
11:20 – Arrive at work in the middle of the aforementioned meeting
11:50 – Meeting ends, chat with my boss about things to do
12:10 – Meet with HR guy to talk about how was my stay at the company
12:25 – Begin lunch in honor of my leaving
12:35 – Realize that the deli guy at Rubins really knows what he is doing
12:40 – Answer questions from people at my company about aliyah, Nefesh B’Nefesh, Kochav Yaakov
13:00 – Meet with my boss some more to discuss the different things I need to do on my last day at work
13:30 – Start doing some of these things
14:00 – Go outside, meet the person who is buying my car
14:10 – Go on a last test-drive
14:30 – The car is sold, check is exchanged for title and keys
14:40 – Finally get the license plates off
15:00 – Deposit check in bank
15:15 – Start doing more work
16:10 – Daven Mincha (yay! my last Mincha in the supply room!)
16:20 – Continuing tying up loose ends, copying files that I will need, deleting files that I wont need, doing more work that has to be done, say goodbye to people as they are leaving
18:30 – I am the last person left at work.
18:40 – Computer Crashes
19:20 – Decide that I dont want to wait for a CD to be burned with the files that I need. Set it up to FTP, hope that everything will go ok
19:30 – Walk out the door for the last time as an employee. Realize that I arrived this morning with a job and a car. Left with neither. Am picked up by my father
20:05 – Arrive home
20:30 – Dinner
20:37 – Begin this post

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One Response to “Maybe My Busiest Day Ever”

RT Says:
December 22nd, 2005 at 0:03

I’m so excited for you guys!
I might see you at the airport – my sister’s on the flight with you.

(Know of any furnished apts in Yerushalayim? She’s still looking!)

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