Just before setting off

Two days before taking everything and leaving, one needs to think about the coming month. It's easy to think about "next month" in every-day life - If something needs to be done for two weeks from now and it takes a few hours to complete, one would usually delay doing it to sometime closer to the event itself.

So, buying a birthday present to one's dad, for example, shouldn't bother someone a couple of weeks ahead. You know what to get him, and you'd get it to him when time comes.

Things like that come to mind when dealing with something like the disengagement. Most of the week, we won't be at home, and it's a new situation for us. And now, I'm sitting here burning DVDs (all legal of course) for his birthday.