Trailered
Late this morning, Lisa and I drove the Astro to Reno, did yet another stop at US Foods Chef'Store (stuff for Hospitality) and at Staples (more ink cartridges just-in-case because we were down to the final black cartridge), then to Savers (where we bought some old blankets for less than furniture pads would have cost, and then we collected the rental trailer from U-Haul.
After the U-Haul store in Reno, we went to Cost Plus World Market and then Winco Foods to buy a bit of groceries for ourselves as opposed to Westercon. We scheduled those stops after getting the trailer because both have large open parking lots where I could park in the unfashionable outer area easily. We then headed back to Fernley. Keeping to the 55 mph speed recommended by U-Haul meant we were a road boulder, but traffic was light enough that everyone could get around us.
In Fernley, we refueled the Astro. Gas prices appear to be down around 40 cents from their peak. I'm not complaining. We then returned home and fled to the relative shade of the house. Packing will have to wait until dusk. It's just too hot to work out there in the sun.
I had a brief time in the morning to take care of fixing an issue with the Gavel of Westercon. A past Westercon managed to lose the box in which it is normally stored. I assume that someone saw the unmarked box (which fortunately didn't have the gavel in it) and tossed it. Anyway, I have another box of the same type (it's the one that held the one that Lisa gave me at Worldcon 75 for my birthday), and I decided it to donate it to Westercon, but this time I did some thing to make it less likely that anyone would mistake the box's intended use.
It seems to me that it would now be very difficult to mistake the purpose of this box.
Later this evening, Lisa and I will start loading the trailer, the minivan, and Lisa's pickup. We're taking both vehicles and convoying to Tonopah sometime tomorrow.
After the U-Haul store in Reno, we went to Cost Plus World Market and then Winco Foods to buy a bit of groceries for ourselves as opposed to Westercon. We scheduled those stops after getting the trailer because both have large open parking lots where I could park in the unfashionable outer area easily. We then headed back to Fernley. Keeping to the 55 mph speed recommended by U-Haul meant we were a road boulder, but traffic was light enough that everyone could get around us.
In Fernley, we refueled the Astro. Gas prices appear to be down around 40 cents from their peak. I'm not complaining. We then returned home and fled to the relative shade of the house. Packing will have to wait until dusk. It's just too hot to work out there in the sun.
I had a brief time in the morning to take care of fixing an issue with the Gavel of Westercon. A past Westercon managed to lose the box in which it is normally stored. I assume that someone saw the unmarked box (which fortunately didn't have the gavel in it) and tossed it. Anyway, I have another box of the same type (it's the one that held the one that Lisa gave me at Worldcon 75 for my birthday), and I decided it to donate it to Westercon, but this time I did some thing to make it less likely that anyone would mistake the box's intended use.
It seems to me that it would now be very difficult to mistake the purpose of this box.
Later this evening, Lisa and I will start loading the trailer, the minivan, and Lisa's pickup. We're taking both vehicles and convoying to Tonopah sometime tomorrow.