Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to the lovely and talented vixyish!!! Have a great one!!

Update[3] on the FlowerCat

When last seen, around 8pm last night, the Cat was doing much better except for the joint pain. Even that was improving since they finally started letting her use aspirin; she's gotten about half her normal range of motion back in her fingers.

(For those just recovering from their weekend, the original post is here and the updates are here and here.)

Thanks to those who have come by her room (333 in the Santa Theresa Kaiser hospital) to visit. I'm guessing she'll be in until tomorrow, though there's a chance she might get sprung this evening. Her cell phone is within reach. (09:42) Just heard -- she's getting sprung this morning!!!

Had a call from her a few minutes ago; she's bored and grumpy, and didn't sleep well at all. And I'm stuck here waiting for my ride to the airport for a business trip to Portland. GRRR.

Travels with Plink and Cthulhu: Almost gone

In about three hours I'll be on a plane waiting to take off for Portland, to attend OSCon. From there I'll be going to Seattle on Friday and meeting the flower_cat in the airport for a weekend at the Big Green Monster. My luggage is piled by the door, with my little plush Cthulhu situated where he can greet anyone who opens my suitcase with appropriately unspeakable plushie horror.

( My itinerary is under the cut tag )

Normally I would be calm and happy, but with the flower_cat in the hospital I'm stressed and grumpy. Knowing that Colleen is safe at home, it turns out, has a big effect on my mood when I'm traveling. I'm going to miss that -- as well as her -- terribly. (09:44 The Cat's getting sprung this morning!!!! So that's a huge load off my mind. Happy Bear!

Keep in touch! My LJ username at gmail.com works, as does the email address in my profile -- I'll have good net access at the con, and expect to be blogging most of my trip report.

Almost forgot -- Kat's new version of the Tres-Gique.com website is live. Still have to move it to my hosting service at DreamHost, and it could stand some tweaking, but it's up.

Morning made of win

The SJC airport has finally joined the 21st Century and put in free wifi. This doesn't seem to have stopped Wayport from trying to charge you $7 for a connection.

The flower_cat should be getting out of the hospital right about now. I'll update this post if I hear from her before I have to board.

Had a couple of good conversations, including the limo driver who turns out to be a former professional musician. (In a band with a long name which I have written down somewhere in a card that's somewhere deep in my backpack right now.)

Travels with Plink and Cthulhu: Portlanded

Well, here I am. The afternoon has been filled with wonderful conversations. My seatmate on the plane, a student at SJ State interning in the marketing department of an open source company, and here to work their booth. A woman on the train, going to OSCon for the first time now that her company has gone open source.

The woman handing out badges and bags, who turns out to be a long-time Tolkein fan -- she told me about the badge ribbons they've started using and I mentioned that I was familiar with them from SF conventions. (I added one of my CC&S ribbons left over from Baycon.) A guy in the hall with a home-made PVC-pipe didgeridoo.

MaryBeth Panagos, business relations person for OpenMediaNow.org, the people behind the GNASH flash clone, which it turns out is optimized for use in embedded systems, making it ideal for things like user interfaces on gadgets. Turns out she has a copy of my CD; we mostly talked about recording and my upcoming projects. We apparently met last year when I had preorder bonus disks in hand.

Yeah, I'm a little different these days. But only a little. I still have trouble with phones, and have yet to get in touch with didn't even leave a message when I called _amethyst_fire_ to give her contact info for this weekend. I'll try a couple more times tonight. But she called me back anyway! Today has been made of win, with awesome sauce.

And I'm still really bad with names.