November 2, 1997
Dear Everyone:
Just a quick note to let everyone know that I have
not yet moved to my new home in San Ramon.
As the poet
wrote:
“The
best laid schemes of mice and men
Gang aft
a-gley.”
(Pretty good for someone whose
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
is currently sealed up in one of 14 paper grocery bags in the second
bedroom.)
This particular
gang aft a-gley struck last
Tuesday morning when my San Ramon
agent
called to tell me that she had heard from the woman at the
title company,
who had heard from the woman at the
other title company, that my
buyer had not yet come in to sign the title documents.
Escrow was
supposed to close the following day.
A call to my Concord agent revealed that the buyer’s financing
had not yet been approved.
This put the brakes on everything.
Until escrow is closed on the condo, it can’t close on the
townhouse. Lots of
knuckle-biting for a couple of days, but everything is OK now.
The movers will be coming on Wednesday instead of last Friday.
And I will be completely moved by Thursday, rather than
yesterday.
Actually, it works better for me because the
cable company
couldn’t install the cable at the townhouse until this Tuesday.
(In the middle of a
Sweeps Month,
no less!) And it gives me
more time for packing. I’ll
take vacation days Tuesday through Thursday to facilitate the Great
Move.
However, this means that I won’t have time to write
a Letter this week, hence this Note.
Love, as always,
Pete
PS. I
just realized I’ve already packed the envelopes and will now have to
figure out which box they’re buried in.
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