02 August 2007 - 8:06 am

And off I go today to Chicago.

For Lollapalooza, stop number three of the cross country tour of the music festivals of the United States.

It's always amazing to me the things that I set my mind to, how easy they are to have come to me, once I set my mind to them.

I have been talking about getting a place of my own, that I own, for years, and almost did it more than once, but this year was the year I actually said it will happen, and sometime in July or August, when I start looking. I start looking at the beginning of July, and boom, I now am about to close escrow on a place of my own, with only $1,175 expended of my own money, so far. Hey, closing hasn't taken place yet, we'll see what that will cost me.

In the meantime, I'm taking another vacation. A short one, but another one, while in the midst of closing escrow, nonetheless.

Makes me sound like such the jet-setter.

I have another possible vacation planned for the end of the month, to go to Burning Man, but escrow may be delayed now, and the only weekend that I could move, might now be the end of August/first weekend of September now, and thus no Burning Man. I get to play it by ear.

That's another story as to why escrow may be delayed, only by a mere business day, but that throws all my plans off, that was my last free weekend, only free weekend of the month of August.

I even considered not going to Chicago when I realized I was in escrow, but the ticket was already purchased, and just because I didn't know how much closing costs were going to be, or moving, or any of that, why should I then not take a vacation I had already planned? Besides, until escrow closes, I can't do anything useful like move or have work done on the place or anything anyway. Well, I could be packing my crap, throwing things out. Nah...

So off I go today. I've been up since 4:30 this morning, and don't expect to get to bed until 1 am Chicago time. Long day ahead.

The layover on my flight is through Vegas, so I might even get a little gambling in.

Fun, fun, fun!

I just wish I had someone to share my traveling adventures with. Maybe I'll find him there, maybe it will be the person I scalp my ticket to. Who knows?

Home of my own, vacations planned around a theme for the year, check, check. Permanent, loving, relationship in my life, next on the list to set my mine on obtaining.