Hmmm....

So I'm still obsessing over vintage travel trailers like I was before. And it has resulted in a question for you, my reading audience.

Getting a hitch setup for Box would run me just under $200. This is everything I need (hitch/drawbar/ball/wiring) to be able to tow with him. I've been thinking that even without a trailer yet (and even if I don't get one) that the hitch might be a good investment. It would mean that if I did find a trailer (or decided to build myself a teardrop) that I'd already have a tow vehicle[1]. And before that, or otherwise I would be able to borrow a friend's utility trailer if I needed to haul stuff, and possibly pick one up of my own if I started using it a lot.

Does this all sound $200 worth of sensible, or does it just sound like rationalization? :)


[1]this would be doubly nice because all trailers I've seen for sale have been a *minimum* of 3-5 hours away, which means I would have to find a tow-capable vehicle to borrow to take on a long drive to see if the trailer is worth buying and if so bring it home.

Things I have been meaning to post.

1) My right ear (and intermittently my left) has been plugged up since Friday when I was a bit too overzealous with a q-tip. I've tried ear drops, hydrogen peroxide and ear-rigation(sorry) all to no avail. I'm pretty sure at this point that it isn't that there is something blocking it so much as that I managed to either with q-tip or by moving stuff around ear-ritate(sorry again) the canal itself. I think I'm just going to have to wait for it to work itself out. Fun.
I was the kid growing up who came home from every vacation involving a pool with an ear infection, so at least that hasn't happened yet.


2) Me and Caffeine currently are having a rather abusive co-dependent relationship. The stuff does nothing useful for me, and does a bangup job of making me jittery, impossible to focus and making my fingers completely(instead of just mostly) dyslexic. The problem is that all this is relatively recent, and caffeine used to be what I used to deal with stress. Not that it cured it, but it made me feel better. Coffee & caffeinated beverages where a odd comfort food(drink?) for me. So when I am stressed (like I am now like whoa) I automatically reach for them. Except that not only do they not work for that, but they make certain stresses worse (like my inability to concentrate at work.
I keep trying to resist having them, but every once in a while the urge is overwhelming, and even as I am buying it,even before I drink it I can feel my body reacting preemptively in non-useful ways.
My self-destructive impulses co-opting my coping impulses for their own nefarious purposes is most annoying.