Travel notes

[mdlbear]

0820-24 visit to Seattle (post separately as a trip report)
  * work on schedule, agenda, packing list, prep for Seattle (0807)
    prep: 
      x key in changes and print songbook 
      x insert chords, tweak lyrics for Cutty Wren
      ~ git presentation -> s.s.net/Doc/Linux
      * Fly Thursday 8/20, Monday 8/24; 
      ~ rent car
      * copy of DH (97G) and /mm/audio (62G).  Will just fit in 160.
      	probably best to just put it all on the mac
      x make damned sure Colleen has mail, skype/ekiga and IM running. (0808)
    buy:
      * 4 bags of coffee - Callie and Kat
      * 6 x Block Polly-O  (string has a new formula :P )
	stupidly left at home
      * universal laptop power brick for YD
	but it didn't work
      x phone card: $25 for Kat's go-phone
    pack:
      ~ Cindy and a large suitcase of Kat stuff.
      * Badass coffee mug
      x HD for Kat's external box.  
	~ The ATA 500 out of Nova would be best, but it's not free yet.
      * Callie's recorder (Howard will get it to me)
      * Zoom and tripod
      * Dell power cord+brick (from Emmy's machine -- it's actually N's)
      ~ Caregiver Helpbook, What Color Is Your Parachute for Callie
    Agenda:
      * TGl, of course. 
      x geekery: pp.net, git, dh, ...
      * take Kat and Led out to dinner.  
      x A. is free the 21st and 23rd; 22nd is her birthday party
    Notes:
      = Next time make sure "buy" items get copied to "pack" after purchase
      = the little stuffbags from OSCon are really hard to get out from under
	an airplane seat -- need a better supplemental carry-on bag.
      = the best-laid plans...

You're probably not going to be all that interested in what plans I made for last weekend's trip to Seattle, my shopping list, and so on. I'll just summarize my notes:

Next time make sure "buy" items get copied to the "pack" list after they're purchased. This will prevent disasters like a half-dozen blocks of mozzerella being left behind in the fridge.

The little stuffbags I got at OSCon, about half a grocery bag's worth, are really hard to get out from under an airplane seat. If I'm going to play that game again I need something more like a stuffable dufflebag. I think I have one somewhere.

Four days -- more like three and a quarter, actually -- are nowhere near enough for a proper visit, especially with all I wanted to cram into it. Needs more like a month.

The best-laid plans...

Nevertheless, it was a wonderful trip, both relaxing and productive. I love my friends, and my Wolfling. I miss them already.

Comments

[chaoswolf]

The X'ed items are things you forgot, right? Hard drive will be in the mail at some point, I suppose.