Done yesterday (20090820)
2009-08-21 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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* up 7:10; W=193.4; drugs, nose; coffee
* Marty will come ~9am
* Fly up
Depart Aug 20 Thu Nonstop SJC-SEA 3419
Depart San Jose (SJC) at 10:50 AM
Arrive in Seattle (SEA) at 1:00 PM
Return Aug 24 Mon Nonstop SEA-SJC 1745
Depart Seattle (SEA) at 7:30 PM
Arrive in San Jose (SJC) at 9:35 PM
~ car at Hertz: E4760111621 -> call Callie's cell; their car's fixed
& Major insight: M-S_B is mostly about mindfulness
(reading Full Catastrophe Living on the plane)
& Callie: "homecoming ritual" - might there be a transition ritual for
starting to do software or music?
@ http://www.scribus.net/ Scribus looks like a major win for DTP
from http://lwn.net/Articles/347651/
& Music, hugs with Naomi
& Forgot the cheese!! Also Cthulhu and Richard
! embarassed. Probably the hardest thing to ship.
A good day: an uninteresting flight, a good insight, good conversations, and music. Can't ask for much more than that. Kat's guitar, a Little Martin, was easy to carry thanks to a backpack rig, but occupies a bit more space in the overhead bin on a 737.
The main thing I forgot to pack was the six blocks of Kraft mozzerella we'd bought for Naomi. Grump -- that's going to be hard to ship up.
The aha! of the day came from realizing that being a Middle-Sized Bear probably has a lot to do with mindfulness - it's a matter of expanding centered awareness and stillness to include the other person. Cool!
On the way back from the airport with Callie I mentioned the difficulty I have in making the transition from random routine to concentrated work and finding time for geekery at home. She told me about homecoming rituals -- the things you do when you get home to leave the work day behind. Perhaps I could devise something similar that could get me into the hacker headspace. Well worth thinking about.
Spent some time with Naomi in the evening alternating song-swapping with being in Middle-Sized Bear mode. I win.
It looks as though Sunday will be my day to visit the Wolfling.