Waiting always fills.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
As I have aged, I have become progressively better at waiting. What still doesn’t work for me, though, is when waiting is accompanied by an expectation of rapid action. Right now, I’m waiting for the delivery of all our household goods from the mainland. They shipped on 2024-09-02, but I have been without them since 2024-08-28 when I came to the island.
I’m waiting for delivery trucks to arrive at our front gate. I don’t want to leave the immediate vicinity of the house, where most of my current projects are, because then I’m out of range of internet connectivity, so I’d miss any texts or phone calls from the delivery folks. I can’t see the gate from anywhere on the property except the tiny screened lanai, which has a nice view of the gate and the new and old garages.
If I go elsewhere in the house or out on the property, I’m likely to miss the delivery folks. Not only would we not get our bed — which we’ve been sorely missing — but we took the “milde and mouldewy” old mattress that we’ve been sleeping on (on the floor) to the transfer station today, so we wouldn’t even have that. I have more anxiety than I’d usually have waiting for a delivery.
My solution is to have set up my laptop on a tray in the lanai where I can see and hear anything that happens at the main gate.
—2p