Paper!, get your Paper!

Today we both received our hard-copy, "Official / Tentative" (a good giggle-term) offer from Miami ARTCC via email :)
It looks good! I'm going to take a lateral transfer with a very small pay increase and Robin is accepting a promotion with a more substantial raise (yahoo!). We are both very excited and have renewed energy over the tasks at hand.
In a couple of days, the Operations Managers will meet and take a look at when it will be possible to release us to the new facility, then all that remains is for us to prepare for that date. I am guessing it will be 6 to 9 months hence, so we'll likely be traveling to Florida during the winter months which will present its own challenges. It'll probably be best for us to drive straight south to warmer climes, even though that means driving through Texas! (grin).

Tomorrow will mark the beginning of de-construction of the outer walls of the house. There is some water damage on some siding and I have to dig in there and find the source as well as replace a couple of exterior walls. It will be a big and difficult project, but really the only other option is to hire a company to re-side the whole house and that is a bit too much of a total-loss expense to deal with just prior to selling the house. I have a couple of very good and gracious friends who've said they'll help, so it may go more quickly than I expect. Here's hoping it is not a major renovation.

The other projects are still coming along. I've now scanned a little over 2500 negatives into the computer and have moved in to the print-scanning phase. Once it's all done, most of the photo albums will be digitized (and backed up!) and we can go to print with whatever we have room for later on. Well, it ~seems~ like a good idea :). I'm scanning everything at 600dpi, so we should have a good print when and if we choose to do so. We're probably going to have to buy a couple more SDRam cards for the electronic photo album that's hanging on the wall and that way we can just have a perma-slide-show running for us. Oh, it's an exciting time to be alive!