Fun weekend so far, and I mean that both seriously and sarcastically.
Friday night, I had my first real houseguests, plunderpuss and awriter. I got to show them around the neighborhood and my apartment, it was nice. Come morning, kehrli arrived and we drove to Portland via the scenic route of Highway 30. Jaycon was fun as usual. Pizza, friends, etc ( Read more... )

Orycon was this past weekend, and pretty fun. Extra fun, actually, since this was a road trip involving myself, plunderpuss, kehrli and awriterAfter the con, we went to the Downtown Powells, since Audrey and Keffy had never been. Camille Alexa suggested we take the free train to downtown, which was a great idea. It probably took longer, but was way less stress. Of course ( Read more... )

I haven't been making any substantial posts lately because my poor old MacBook died. I'm still holding out hope for the little thing, but any potential resurrections will have to wait until I have more money. In the meantime, I got my beloved old NEC MobilePro up and running to write Nano on. I can't find my memory card, so I have no idea how I'll ( Read more... )

Tonight I went to one of the highlights of my vacation--the Oregon Symphony's outdoor concert. It took place in a big park, and there were lots and lots of people. However, there was a round little plaza right next to the stage where, except for a few benches, no one was sitting. I sat on the bricks* against a low, curved wall that probably ( Read more... )

I think I just went to my first ever Latin Mass. I thought it was special for the William Byrd Festival, but I guess it's weekly. This means everyone else knew what they were doing, and I didn't. Latin responses aside, there were a few differences in tradition. They bowed in the middle of the Profession of Faith, and genuflected before receiving ( Read more... )

I'm housesitting in Portland for two weeks. Right now, I'm lounging on the bed in the guest room (aka the air conditioned room. No one warned me it was going to be 92 degrees here. Fortunately, it cools off tomorrow ( Read more... )

Just got home from Writers Weekend at the beach. We decided to take the scenic route and went up Hood Canal, planning on taking the Port Townsend ferry. However, we switched to the Kingston ferry to save time, which turned out to be a good thing. The Hood Canal Bridge was open (and by open I mean, closed.) and the Kingston ferry had a posted two ( Read more... )

Adventure, Phase 2 was nice and (mostly) low key, spending time with friends and watching movies and getting some writing done. (I'm basically trading writing advice for baby care) I say "mostly" low key, because there were a lot of babies to help with. But I also managed to watch Unforgiven, followed by part of Taken, which is an interesting movie ( Read more... )

We got the moving done quickly and smoothly this morning, even with having to park on a San Francisco hill to load the van, and having to park across the street and lug heavy boxes of books across said street. I wrenched my shoulder on the very last box, and that is now healed, and I banged my shin, but I'm very fond of interesting bruises that don ( Read more... )

I have successfully arrived in San Francisco. While in the airport, twitter alerted me that Mark Teppo (whom I've met a couple times, but only sorta know) was also stuck there waiting to go to SF. Not having anything to do for the hour my plane was delayed, I set off to find him. I thought I saw him sitting at the gate beside mine (which was, btw, ( Read more... )