FMCA Western Area Rally

Where am I? What day is it? And, what am I supposed to be doing? I am completely discombobulated. We are in Indio, California ... I think :-) We are here for the FMCA Western Area Rally. We've only attended the national rallies in the past, but, I gotta say, this looks just as big! We were told they expect 1500 rigs here. We pulled in about 4:30 yesterday and were greeted with, "The Geeks are here!" And, when we got closer, Odie jumped up and looked out the window. The parking volunteer responded with, "Hi Odie!" Pretty cool. Here's our parking spot. We spent today trying to prepare for our booth. We don't have a clue what we're doing. I think a good night's sleep is in order.

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Production Mode

Hard to believe that our little 30 foot home and office can also be a production center - but that's the case tonight. We're producing our CDs and DVDs. We're getting ready to go to the FMCA Western Area Rally in Indio, California. We'll be doing two of our seminars at the rally, but we don't get paid anything for that. In the past, we've either passed on these opportunities, or gotten a sponsor. This time we're trying out having a booth and selling our CDs and DVDs. I sure hope it goes well - this is a lot of work. And, of course the work started over a year ago when I started recording the video tutorials. Jim spent some time last week making a tabletop display. I'm copying the disks, and printing the labels for them. Thank goodness for our cab over - it becomes our staging area. It still got a little too crowded for Jim so he decided to go to his 'office' (the computer room) to do his part.

mmmm ... I'm falling asleep to the whir of my disk drives.

Aha - Here's Jim. Take a look at the covers he made:

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Back to the Living

The doctor took chest xrays and said it wasn't pneumonia, so that's a good thing. Jim has an ear infection and I just have a bad cold with lung congestion. All it took was couple hundred dollars, a shot of some kind of cortisone, some Azithromycin antibiotic, MethylPrednisolone for ?? and some heavy duty cough syrup and we made it through our seminar and the rest of our day today. And, what do I pay health insurance (our biggest monthly expense)for? I know, I know, it's just for the catastrophic stuff that we sure hope never happens. So just be glad OK? Well, I try. Better living through chemistry! Time for bed.

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Misery

The weather is warming up, but apparently too late for our delicate Florida constitutions. We're sick again. This time it was Jim first. He stayed in bed, sound asleep, all day yesterday. By nightfall, I had it too,and this isn't a simple head cold. It feels like pneumonia. We're off to visit the Urgent Care clinic. Just a notice from the universe that we must take care of ourselves. Without our health we have nothing.

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Happy New Year

That's our 'official' holiday photo. Then, here's our New Year's Eve photo ... You see, the park held a fancy New Year's Eve party and it had a Moroccan theme. I love how Jim is game for dressing up! It's fun. But, he wasn't the only one ... Then there was the entertainment! She was really good. We took lots more photos, and video too. We've set up a blog just for Palm Creek go check it out at www.palmcreek.blogspot.com You can see the video there.

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