The Last Line

In yesterday's post, I ended with the line, "disinclined to acquiesce." Those of you who have kept up with popular American movies may have noticed the vaguely familiar ring to this. It is a partial quote from the movie, Pirates of the Caribbean, in which the evil pirates' captain makes a request of the fair maiden captive aboard his ship to which she replies that she is "disinclined to acquiesce."

Those who saw the movie know that, given the awful alternative, she does indeed acquiesce to the request. And so must we, to yet another request here. We sincerely hope it is the last request and the difficulties imposed upon us may be finally laid to rest. We appear to be on the home stretch for this phase of our lives. It would be a relief as we have not had a weekend off in ages and would like to have a brief respite from the constant work.

Come November, however, our work does not end. We begin our push in earnest to get this place ready to put back on the market, which means ratcheting up our efforts to downsize dramatically as well as taking care of all those little cleaning details such as professional carpet cleaning, stripping and re-waxing the floors, touching up the paint, and trying to get the huge volumes of loose dog fur under control. I also begin editing the next volume in Nova's American Apocalypse series, after finishing up Gardener Summer earlier this month.

It is likely that the blog will be put on the back burner for a while. I've not had much inspiration to write lately and feel I have beat our current trials and tribulations into the ground. Nobody wants to hear about them anymore nor do I want to talk about them anymore. Let's move on, please.

Regarding requests sure to be made that I keep the blog active, post about more positive aspects of what I'm doing or eating right now, and keep fighting the good fight, at this time I feel rather disinclined to acquiesce.