Traavels with Rolly and Plink

[mdlbear]

Well, here I am at GAFilk. I got up eight-ish local time, which is about 5-ish West Coast time, so I'm not doing too badly.

Not as well-prepared for this trip as I usually am -- need to work on that. This is the first con in 5 years that I've been to without my flower_cat. Grump. We need to get the kids to the point where they can take care of themselves for a couple of days.

The trip out was uneventful, which is just the way I like them. A longer-than-usual stretch of turbulence over Oklahoma, but what the heck. For the first time, I had a little trouble fitting Rolly under the seat in front of me -- I think I took too much stuff. Next time I'll have to check through all the cables and stuff, including the UA25, and not take food. I took a lot of dates and dried figs, knowing that it would be a long flight and that I wouldn't get fed. What I hadn't factored in was the fact that I had a big brunch just before leaving, and that we arrived at what would have been just dinner time on the West coast. Could have left the munchies at home.

The Vic Firth headphones, on the other hand, were a *major* win. They're not my most comfortable set, but they have about 30dB of isolation. Yeah! They're made for drummers.

After dinner (I just barely got in before the hotel restaurant closed at 10pm) I went up to the Ops suite, which is where everyone was hanging out. Many hugs ensued; I'm not even going to try to keep up with the LJ handles.

I am now going to go get some breakfast and see if I can chase down some sudafed or fake sudafed; I apparently left my less-used allergy meds at home. Dumb bear.

Comments

[ravan.livejournal.com]

We need to get the kids to the point where they can take care of themselves for a couple of days.

Ummm... one is over 18, and the other is also a teenager? They should be able to handle themselves already. I was spending several days by myself when I was in my teens.

[mdlbear]

The problem is that both of them have trouble getting up early enough in the morning to take the bus to school/work. Otherwise it wouldn't be a problem.

If one of us left Friday afternoon and came back Sunday it would work; that's probably the thing to do in the future.

[ravan.livejournal.com]

Heh. I had the same problem for a while. Getting in real life trouble for it taught me to listen to my alarm clock, and get up, even though I would much rather stay in bed. That sense of pending DOOM as the minutes slip by keeps you from going back to sleep... ;-)

Or maybe you could give them wakeup calls from the hotel as you're packing? Every five minutes, to be sure they get up and stay up. Yes, I'm obnoxious that way...

[chaoswolf]

Oh damn, I'm not there to play. Could you at least take pics and get permission from those in attendance for me to make icons?

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Next time I'll have to check through all the cables and stuff, including the UA25, and not take food.

Um, for what it's worth, my advice would be to take the food. Even if it looks like you'll arrive in plenty of time for your next meal. I've had way too much experience with flight mess-ups recently.

Though you did say you were taking a nonstop flight, if I remember right, so maybe it's not as important.

[mdlbear]

You're probably right, especially for multi-hop flights. Not much of a problem this time, since the only multi-stop was a three-hour layover in Atlanta on the way home. But I really need to cut down on carry-on volume -- I had trouble getting the rolly under the seat in front of me, and the guitar has to go into the overhead bin.