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mdlbear0920 Tu * up 6:30; W=198.4; drugs, nose, teeth, laundry, exercise @ "Don't ask, don't tell" consigned to history @ thnidu - one of those things that can really stress a marriage @ On emergence, relationship entities, and the misnomer “having sex” * contact herbfarm re: Colleen, allergies. European table; I think Colleen would fit really well at the end nearest the kitchen. See email 8/22 Should you have any questions, please call 425-485-5300 between 10 am and 5 pm, or email us at reservations@theherbfarm.com. verified by phone. 4:15 : "Done Yesterday" stubbornly not cross-posting. Grr. -> there was an earlier (growf) post; had to mark it "date out of order" * 0920: "Done Yesterday" crosspost failed. Retry. Remember to click the "crosspost" button :P http://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/1382960.html @ siliconshaman - It is no measure of sanity... sustainability The Earth's sustainable carrying capacity is very much up for debate. @ PSA: That's the street name... - Foodstamps 101 (Ravan) 0921 We * up 6:55; W=197.4; drugs, nose, teeth, laundry, dishes * some packing * 8:30am Dr. Reed * banking, exercise * Colleen: humira ~ bring in netbook (has working Jitsi client) * no Avoiding group this week - maybe use the time to pre-compose s4s @ Espetus Churrascaria Brazilian Steak House | San Francisco and San Mateo @ Endangered Alphabets (ysabetwordsmith) @ The Wordsmith's Forge - 10 Books to Survive By * pack. * 10 copies of CC&S for Chaos to distribute (Colleen's suitcase) * coffee for Chaos * left-behind items for C+N * put-xfer * print maps: airport to hotel to herbfarm to Kat's, hotel to promusica * print songs for TGl rehearsal 0922 Th - 0925 Su RainFurrest ~ If Colleen goes to the con and shares her room with Kat, I could visit C+N and Colleen and I could take off e.g. Sunday for Herb Farm Kat's school is the main wildcard. Herbfarm closed on Sunday -> Herbfarm on Thursday; pick up Kat Friday and drive down to RF 0922 Th * up 6:30; W=195.8; drugs, nose, teeth, hair, * last minute: CPAP, meds, neti pot * Chami contains a music stand, filkbook, the small-electronics cases, and the CPAP. Fits very nicely; probably room for a jacket. Magazines and CDs in the flap pocket; I cleverly forgot to take the zines out in the plane; I'll manage. Next time put one in Minnie with Barnard and its charger -- there's room. 's OK; I'll read 'em on the trip home. * 7:30 start trying to wake Colleen * 8:20 car packed modulo small stuff and scooter. * 8:30 leave: should be at airport by 9am. (Liz driving the Honda) everything fit in the back seat next to me except the scooter bag and basket. Somehow the extra chair pad got left in the car. * Trip name: 09/22/11 - Seattle/Tacoma Confirmation # WBF8PN Thursday, September 22, 2011 Travel Time 2 h 00 m Conf # WBF8PN DEPART SEP 22 10:55 AM San Jose, CA (SJC) to 12:55 PM Seattle/Tacoma, WA (SEA) Flight #3322 * hotel reservation for Thursday near Woodinville -> http://www.countryinns.com/bothell-hotel-wa-98011/wabothel b'fast buffet http://www.baymontinns.com/hotels/home better - cheaper & closer http://www.comfortinn.com/hotel-kirkland-washington-WA160 * 9:30 in gate area; flight delayed to 11:40 :( oh, and they've shut down the metal detectors -- it's either the x-ray or the grope. I picked the grope; Colleen takes longer than I do. ETA at the hotel now between 4 and 5pm. We can go to 6 with no trouble. * Car Confirmation: R7133224 Dollar Pickup: Seattle/Tacoma, WA - SEA * hotel for Thursday: Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, Bothell, WA 19333 North Creek Parkway, Bothell, WA 98011; (425) 485-5557 Confirmation Number: 99957CT * 6:30 Herbfarm Thursday; dinner 7pm I took a wrong turn and wound up thoroughly lost; we arrived a minute or two late, just as we were being called to find out where we were. Got lost on the way home, too. But dinner was glorious -- totally different from last time, but equally fantastic. Which Angela (who looks remarkably like a shorter version of Cat Faber) said is what they aim for. Colleen was impressed. We bought their two cookbooks. Colleen's non-alcoholic drinks were amazing. The European table was fun -- there were three other pairs (two married couples and a pair of sisters), and good conversation. One woman was from Mongolia; she'd met her husband when he was in the Peace Corps. * went splat slightly after midnight 0923 Fr * up 7:30; bath, drugs, nose, laundry & having breakfast in the hotel dining room while Colleen sleeps in. @ ysabetwordsmith - What Is "Poke a Bigot in the Eye" ...? ~ (16:32:01) filkerwolf: My first panel is Fri @ 3pm * membership in RainFurrest for Colleen * went to Central Market with Colleen. Fun! But of course got lost getting there. Took 99 down to airport. Would have run straight in to Int'l Blvd if I hadn't gotten confuzzled _again_. Or maybe the mistake was following Google's directions. Was pretty frazzled by the time we got there. ~ hotel for 9/23-26 - main hotel full. Clarion Hotel Seattle Airport 3000 S. 176th St, Seattle, WA 98188-4001 Tel: +1 (206) 242-0200 Conf# 191071769 - 2 beds; all accessible rooms full. Clarion Hotel Seattle Airport we bounced from the Clarion, which was crappy and on a hill, downhill to the Holiday Inn which was nice and had a room but wasn't the con hotel (because I stupidly didn't look it up), to the Hilton which *did* have an accessible king room available. On the first floor. Win. In the process I used up all my cope. A couple of times. * dinner with the Woof & took 405 North instead of 5; made it but just barely * good rehearsal session; some catching up I seem to be recovering my old ability to pick out chords, at least if they aren't too weird. And as long as I can find the key. * bed a little after midnight. Or maybe closer to 1; wasn't paying close attention. 0924 Sa * up 9am (!); drugs, nose, exercise @ s4s: The Gauss Christmath Special - YouTube Vi Hart @ Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites @ Schneier on Security: Three Emerging Cyber Threats * good rehearsal - it's going very well. It'll kick ass. @ Vi Hart: Everything * dinner was leftover Chinese while Callie was out with her Mom. * drove N. to her cat-care gig. * hanging out with Callie; ran a couple of songs * bed 11:50ish 0925 Su & got up 2ish to close the window -- was getting rained on. Went to the bathroom, too, of course. * up 7:30ish; drugs, nose, teeth, hair, exercise : good thing I packed a warm shirt -- it's cold today @ naamah_darling: Night of the Living Link Dump! good stuff = 1-2pm Kat's last panel * *fantastic* last rehearsal. Setlist order almost solid. Ran through everything (including several songs that were new to at least one of us). We're going to kick ass and take names. * Plan TGl rehearsal: need a couple of days before conflikt; we'll have to get a room early, I suspect. -> no, she'll find someone to travel with Friday - rehearsals in late Oct/early Nov. and Dec. before Xmas week =>rehearsal Oct 20-24 (OVFF weekend) = Starport party 1029 = Orycon Nov 11-13 =>rehearsal Dec. 8-12 = Starport party 1231 =>fly up Wed evening before Conflikt; Colleen joins on Friday * plan Kat's flight home she'll return Sun. Jan 1 after the party * dinner at Spencer's with Colleen and Kat * config: started moving dotfiles to users/steve/Config and setting it up for sharing via dsl:steve/Config.git 0926 Mo & 2ish - can't get back to sleep * config: add some of the ss-xxx-hacks files that weren't checked in emacs now starts properly on barnard. win. * up 7am. drugs, nose, exercise. Kat woke at about the same time. * 9am -> 8ish take Kat home had a father-daughter breakfast, and hung out with Steve Dixon for about half an hour. Got back to the hotel 11:30ish * noon: check out * ask for late checkout just in case -> 12:15ish * 1:30ish return car ~ 3pm return car by 3:00 No problem because we have to be at airport by 2 * Monday, September 26, 2011 Travel Time 2 h 10 m Conf # WBF8PN RETURN SEP 26 4:05 PM Seattle/Tacoma, WA (SEA) to 6:15 PM San Jose, CA (SJC) Flight #1091 @ Crowdfunded Creativity - Types of Crowdfunded Content * smooth flight. on time. Colleen's inards behaved for the whole trip; ! she's getting a lot more control, and this delights me. * Colleen's new chair is here. Needs a back-spacer. * laundry. Remarkably little this trip. Buying an extra 2 pkgs of disposable pads was, if I may say so, a good idea. * bumper sticker for N: latin:"lamb of god with side of mint jelly" Crus de agnus Dei con quilon menthae (Leg of lamb of God with mint jelly) Bumper sticker clearance sale. -> ordered 10 @ The Wordsmith's Forge - Striking for Health Care * pay bills * second load of laundry -- C's pants, plus my dirties that I'd put in the duffel and cleverly forgotten about. @ Google & The Israel Museum Put Dead Sea Scrolls Online 0927 Tu * up 6:30; W=196.4; drugs, nose, laundry, dishes, exercise, teeth, hair @ Daily Kos: Westinghouse Introduces Low Cost, Do-It-Yourself, Home Rooftop Solar Kits (filkertom) @ Stupid Deal of the Day (filkertom) @ Zoe Keating On Spotify, Fairness To Indie Artists & Music's Niche Economy - hypebot +rowanf * buy: coffee $ HX:mr ordered Tracy Grammer CD _Book of Sparrows_ via paypal * buy: dinner fixin's - Liz and Og joining; YD at school -> Colleen @ jilara: Re-Radicalization @ Crowdfunded Creativity - Let's Make Some Bookstores @ siege: Encounters for every age (ysabetwordsmith - Read "Another first encounter" by Siege) : HTC thunderbold (work phone) has all the usual problems of a touch-screen interface. :P Set up using my _other_ gmail addy. * set up YD's blu-ray player; basically she needs a 100baseT switch or hub. % some pain trying to retrieve a length of CAT-5 cable from behind the boxes on the South wall. Fail. Used uncategorized Sun cable from the recycling bin. The 5-port hub was old enough to have a separate upload port instead of autonegotiating. @ Thank you, Elizabeth Warren! (ysabetwordsmith - Support Progressive Action) Finally, a progressive who knows how to fight back hard against the ridiculous "class warfare" charges from the GOP. % 11:30 wiped. drained? Tired and my back hurts.
It's been a short week. Busy, exhausting, occasionally frustrating, sometimes spectacularly wonderful. I don't think I can sum it up.
We flew to Seatac on Thursday, picked up our rental car -- I'd been worried about getting to their offsite lot, but one look at Colleen and they had someone drive it over for us. Total win. Drove up to Bothell for our one night at the Country Inn. Not as good as I'd hoped, but the room was huge, the WiFi was free, and the bar had bar snacks. Then we headed over to the Herb Farm for dinner.
I took a wrong turn and got us thoroughly lost. We finally pulled in to the parking lot, after an hour on the road, just as dinner was starting at 7pm. I was able to answer their call and walk in the door just moments later.
I was sorry to have missed the garden tour, but dinner's awesomeness was not really diminished by this. It was just as gloriously awesome as my last visit, but totally different. Which, as Angela (one of the staff) told me, is what they aim for. I found myself talking to Angela after dinner because she looks remarkably like a shorter version of Cat Faber. But anyway.
I only got slightly lost going back to the hotel. The breakfast buffet was free, but not really worth it, either.
I got us lost again trying to get to Central Market in Shoreline. I got us there, but it took a while. (You may start to notice a pattern here.) We were, however, in good humor, and Colleen enjoyed Central Market as much as I'd hoped she would.
I got lost again getting to the hotel. The overflow hotel, since the Hilton was full when I went to make our reservations. Only slightly lost -- I found Google's directions rather unhelpful, as they had been on the way to the Herb Farm. I was already low on spoons when we got to the Clarion and realized that Colleen's scooter was going to have problems on the hills between there and the con hotel.
Then I forgot which was the con hotel, or rather hadn't bothered to write it down. The desk clerk at the Clarion called and found a room for us in the Holiday Inn next door, which is where Conflikt had been last year. I got suspicious when the front desk hadn't heard about the con. I called over to the Hilton. They had an accessible room, and I booked it. By this time I was totally out of spoons. I had, by this time, put Colleen's scooter in and out of the trunk 5 times, at something over 100 pounds each. That's half a ton of lifting, total. No wonder I was tired!
I had a delightful, if somewhat expensive, dinner with Colleen and Chaos in the Hilton, then headed North to Promusica for two days of music. Via the wrong freeway, of course. Fortunately I was able to find my way there. Did I mention that there was a pattern?
The Tempered Glass rehearsal weekend was wonderful -- a relaxing, comfortable two days, and some amazing music-making. Amazing in part because of the speed at which we were able to pick up on the new material. I felt like I was doing a lot better than usual, and found myself getting back my old skill at figuring out chords. Wow. Some good catching-up, too; a lot has happened since Reno.
Sunday evening I drove back to the hotel for another dinner with Colleen and Chaos, and I drove the Wolfling back to Marysville in the morning. Without getting lost in either direction, I might add. We had a father/daughter breakfast, and I got to see her current digs and talk briefly with Steve Dixon.
The whole week has been kind of a blur. There was a little work in there, too.
But Colleen had a wonderful time, which is the main thing. She handled the travel much better than I'd feared she would; she really is getting stronger and more independent even though it's hard to notice from close in. I had a wonderful time, modulo a meltdown and a couple of almosts. I'm going to declare it a Good Week.
Oh, and our concert at Conflikt in January is going to kick ass. Just thought you ought to know.
There are links. A lot of them have to do with politics. Sorry about that.
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