Settlement? 11:30 am. Leave Del--MD--PA for the last time? Yes--9:45 pm in Somerset PA--on the western slope of the Alleganies. Rush to paint touch up using Ken R's sponge brush (a dollar he said)--couldn't reach everything--no stool--But good, & I used wisk broom in my walk-in closet. Really clean house, Ralph Orendorf said. Our praise of him. Rush to #7 by Ochiltree Rd. Then endless wait 1120 1220 120 220, 318 pm when we finally left--& a sort of legal kiting--Mortgage co waits till day's end to wire money so they collect interest. Mike Jenkins transfer agent is supposed to wire money to Bank of America on June 1, Monday. Hope he does. Ian Quimby and Maureen's mother in Molly's in that little area with Ralph Orendorf there. At last in a room. [In Ochiltree, waiting] I slept a few mins on a 15" wide table, hands in pockets so arms wouldn't fall. Hellish 35 miles or so on Routes 7 / 41 / 10 / to 76, Turnpike. Then had to turn off air conditioning because the Bronco was too labored. 2 violent thunder-storms--high winds, maybe hail--HAR thinks hail, also. Pulled off, absolutely blinded by rain, and my passenger door swung open--HAR! and I thought I was ahead of her. To Somerset Super 8 44$ good room clean, 2 beds. Walk out in light rain--everywhere, smokers, except McDonald's--horror of fat Middle America. Bed at 10--Looks as if we did it--I'm free, HAR's free. First day of Retirement, utterly exhausted.
[Our money for the PA house: 2 June 1998 in Cheyenne: "Ralph Orendorf: 900 bolts of lightning around Newark, Delaware. Computers were down everywhere and money could not be wired. A terrible storm, many thousands without power. In Salt Lake City HAR called--Money in California at last.]
So I have posted this week a list of publications in these 20 years. I am putting this up now at 7:45 after getting up before 6 to clean up from the cat and make coffee and read all through the piece I am going to send in a day or so to LEVIATHAN on the now complete THE WRITINGS OF HERMAN MELVILLE. Then back to the Library of America volume on Herman Melville's poetry.
[Our money for the PA house: 2 June 1998 in Cheyenne: "Ralph Orendorf: 900 bolts of lightning around Newark, Delaware. Computers were down everywhere and money could not be wired. A terrible storm, many thousands without power. In Salt Lake City HAR called--Money in California at last.]
So I have posted this week a list of publications in these 20 years. I am putting this up now at 7:45 after getting up before 6 to clean up from the cat and make coffee and read all through the piece I am going to send in a day or so to LEVIATHAN on the now complete THE WRITINGS OF HERMAN MELVILLE. Then back to the Library of America volume on Herman Melville's poetry.
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