Flight and contact info for this week

I'll probably be getting to the hotel (the Red Lion Convention Center) 4-ish, which will give me just enough time to unpack and have dinner before the convention kickoff session at 7:00.

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I'm almost done packing; I still need to make a final decision about which travel guitar to bring; at the moment I'm leaning toward "Plink", the little Vagabond. It's smaller. (cflute has one, but I want something for the hotel room so I can get in practice for Worldcon, which is in less than a month.

The kids are growing up

... at least one of them, anyway. The Older Daughter, chaoswolf, has landed a job with the Democratic Party as an annoying person who knocks on your door and asks for money a canvasser. Their office is in San Francisco, and roaringmouse and household have graciously offered crash space. I'm giving the Wolf my spare wireless router to take up as a hospitality gift. (I bought two of them on sale at Fry's, under the impression that I could put Linux on them. One is now up in the garage as a range extender; the other has been languishing in a box in the office.)

This means that one of my kids is leaving home, and even though it's not very far and the job only runs through November, it's still a milestone. I'm very proud of her; our Wolfie has not hitherto been known to be particularly adventurous. It would not surprise me much to find her staying on in San Francisco; it's a wonderful city.

OSCon

Well, here I am at OSCon, enjoying the fast wireless connectivity and the proximity of a wall outlet, in the company of all the other geeks.

The flight was uneventful. I'm travelling light: rolling suitcase and briefcase ("the rolly"), shoulderbag (goes into the rolly's outside pocket), and Plink, my Vagabond travel guitar. Plink is a trifle awkward as a shoulderbag, but when I don't have the suitcase she fits nicely on board the rolly. I'm seriously considering having a custom gig bag made.

update -- looks as though evening programming runs until 9:30.

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Had dinner at a local restaurant called "Red Robin" - obviously a chain. The clam strips looked good, but more breading than clam. I'll try someplace else tomorrow.

The hotel advertises free wireless, but I wasn't able to connect either in my room or in the lobby. Apparently on different access points; I'll try again later.

Stupid goddamned Mac crashed on me! I thought OSX wasn't supposed to do that! Fortunately, LJ saves drafts! I'm not complaining.

Anybody know how to set up groups on this stupid thing? On a real unix I'd just add a line to /etc/group, but it has a comment saying that it's not used. Something called lookupd is, but there's no /etc/lookupd/ (mentioned in the man page for lookupd). Foo.