Done recently (20091125 We - 20091129 Su)
1125 We * up 6:30ish; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee * DO NOT wake the YD - no school today @ http://twitter.com/rowanf/statuses/6015813108 * make appointment with Awsare (last was apparently Feb.) used the web form; entirely painless, avoided phone call & HSX: advance royalties to N. for Shattered and Amethyst Rose * pay remaining bills for the month * Colleen: Humira @ Kindle 2.3 software update available -- Engadget @ Kindle Software Update Version 2.3 @ ChromeOS on a USB stick @ Comparing File Sharing To Payola | Techdirt @ 1:15 put in an intensely frustrating hour and a half looking for an important email that apparently went astray somewhere. Non-fatal but... & fought with benefits site over password. didn't help that FF kept putting it in the username field; by the time I realized that I could get it out of FF I'd already put in a change request, but the email never arrived. They suck. @ DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums (gizmodo) @ TeamDroid | DIY Hollow Out A Light Bulb @ Reusing Lightbulbs: as planters or mini terrariums @ Get Your Hands on a Non-Functioning WETA Ray Gun * short walk around building before going home * wiper blades for van at Kragen (coupon) * Wishful Wednesday -> thanks in advance * print party fliers @ American Heart Association Fitting in Fitness: Hundreds of Simple Ways to Put More Physical Activity Into Your Life (from folkmew ) & ordered from Powell's * dishes * print cards for Colleen, me . come up with set list for LosCon (probably best to make it stuff from the next album) mbrains ms-bear ma-bear riverheart inherit stuff * start directory in /users/record (1125) * need 1-3 more songs; or -> QV . pack. *Ransack the Microsoft bag: stuff is hiding in there * flexeril. x hard candy from honda * bed 11:30? midnight? snuggle. 1126 Th Thanksgiving - LOSCON * awake(ned) 6ish; up 6:30ish; drugs, nose. YD made bearable apple pancakes (a little too early) = Los Angeles Airport Marriott 1-800-228-9290 11/26 Th 3 nights conf#s accessible: 81521886 double: 81522310 0926 Th ! got seriously frazzled on the way out; settled down quickly once all the last-minute stuff was done with and we were on the freeway. " (10:51:54 PM) me: Well, we had Kaylee. Getting everything into the car was a bit challenging. Good thing I'm four-dimentional. (10:52:21 PM) chaos_tigerwolf: *smirk* Yeah. Master of Bear and Space. (10:52:24 PM) chaos_tigerwolf: Hehehe. (10:53:26 PM) me: As opposed to your Mom, who's the Mistress of Spice and Thyme? (10:53:54 PM) ***chaos_tigerwolf LOLS at that one....you need to tell her that one. (10:54:13 PM) me: So I do. " ? wonder whether I'm allergic to something. Nose pretty clear all day. * bed 11:30ish; snuggle 1127 Fr * awake 6ish; snuggle * up 7ish; drugs, nose; coffee @ Black Friday Sale @ Tom Smith Online * ordered some concert downloads from Tom Smith links in email in m.m.filk; good for 7 days = one has to get downstairs ~10 to have any hope of making the buffet breakfast, which gets put away at 11 * cloned repo for Private onto dsl, and from there to barnard. YAY!! The repo on dsl is bare, of course. * bought memberships for Westercon 64 in San Jose * downloaded concerts to Barnard; very slow on dorsai. wtf? Wonder whether the speed problem is on the starport end -> dried kiwi tastes awful. Sort of soapy & changed strings because they were *really* dead. * 4:30 Concerts start (Nick Smith has schedule) 90min, so I'm probably a :30 slot at 5:00 * start directory in /users/record (1125) * need 1-3 more songs; or -> QV riverheart inherit ms-bear ma-bear stuff quiet maybe not quite the ideal order, but it fit the time slot and had only two capo changes. No amplification, but a small enough audience not to really need it. Seemed to go over well, $ one CD sold. * Parties. Full bottle of water, plus chili. Maybe more than I needed, especially after an overpriced dinner. * laundry * bed ~12:30; snuggle 1128 Sa * up 7ish. Drugs, nose; coffee * Breakfast alone; conversations with Barry Gold, Moira, and the Tyra/Bohnhoff party. Should have come down a little later, maybe. * Bought memberships for Westercon/ConChord 2010 * Concerts. 1:00 Moira "All I Ask of You" would be lovely for TGl; not practical, alas. "Black Lace and Midnight", maybe 2:30 Odds Bodkins (bought 4 CDs; there's one more) 4:00 Bohnhoffs. Preview of Midichlorian Rhapsody while waiting & Change rooms to 5018; 618 was scheduled for deep cleaning. (bugs?) comp last night. For $100 I'll spend half an hour moving. ->TGl: The Tyras have some great mic stand shelf/drink-holders; one has a rack to display CDs as well. ->should do a River post on going to a con with a partner. Partners need a lot of training, as it turns out, especially if they're used to going solo or one partner's health has changed. * delivered package to Tibicina ~ /users/tg/Lyrics already under git, * laundry, with guitar and computer * small filk circle bigger, riverheart, vampire, wheelin, two bears ? my Droid demagnetizes keycards!! GAAK! Or else not. WTF? I was probably just too sleepy to put the card in right! : mail: first card of the season, also the book Mom sent on stone circles (new tag: : for noteworthy stuff that happened, rather than what I _did_ * backups: 2009-11-29T22:33:26-0800 - 2009-11-29T23:19:57-0800 * bed ~00:15; snuggle 1129 Su * awake 6ish; up 7:15; drugs, nose; coffee & Key works fine; probably PEBCaK (or would that be HaK: hallway & key) * Breakfast. Coffee with jcbemis & Tony * Coffee with the Cat. Plan on meeting downstairs at 1pm with luggage * 1:30 on the road * Dinner: Madonna Inn Three cups of coffee helped a great deal in staying awake ! Fun to watch Kaylee enjoying it. * 10ish: home; laundry, minimal unpacking ! summary: happy bear; good weekend. Colleen noticably better even than ConChord -- *much* better at maneuvering in tight spaces = travel: the little duffel makes a good bag for electronics. I need a suitcase the size of Colleen's, now that she's using it again * git pull dsl master -- worked perfectly; have to figure out how to specify the branch to pull. * 11ish cyclobenzaprine, bath * 11:30p bed
The details are, as usual, in the raw notes, but I had a very good Loscon weekend.
I didn't get to any panels this year, but I got to all of the concerts on Friday and Saturday, and the filk circle Saturday night. That was very good -- small enough, maybe 4-6 performers -- to flow well but still allow time for a little conversation.
No really deep conversations, but a lot of good catching up with friends. I'll take that, though I'd prefer both.
Travel notes:
- Doing the laundry is a lot more fun if you take a guitar and a netbook.
- The little black duffel bag makes a good place for cords, chargers, and other random electronic stuff.
- Using git means being able to work locally without having to care whether you have a net connection.
- I need a bigger suitcase now that Colleen is back to using the purple one. But not as big as the one the YD has -- what a monster!
- The little rolling shopping carts are the wrong shape -- narrow and deep -- to be usable as laundry hampers. The rollycrate works, though.