Lo, I have returned from my longest time away from somewhere I could call home in ... possibly ever? Certainly if one doesn't count "staying with one's parents".
The Gathering was really good. Various personal stuff taking place at the same time was ... not. More later, on both counts, maybe. Today is a day for Processing, in addition to things like groceries and mail and resetting my internal clock.
Good things: I got a lift across the border to the bus station, saving me around 45 minutes' walk in the heat and humidity. And then WestJet upgraded me to first class for the flight from Toronto to Vancouver. Not just first class; the front row, with a truly ridiculous amount of leg room. First class flying is pretty awesome in comparison to normal flying but I don't think it's so awesome that one should spend more than about twenty bucks on it. Or maybe "ten bucks an hour," or some similar rate. I guess the calculus changes if you're planning on drinking on the flight, too.
It's acting like fall up here. The temp dropped to five (40F) overnight. Much more comfortable for me.
Less good things: okay, so, for about a decade any time I checked a bag on a flight home, it went through Chicago, unless I was flying through Chicago and then it went through Denver. This had died off in recent years but, alas, one of my checked bags has gone Missing this time. And it's the bag with my dopkit in it, too, so no shaving this morning. Other than that I'm lacking: my tarot deck; a number of hardcopy books, ranging from "meh" to "dang"; some random miscellaneous stuff that I don't think I care much about. I really like the bag itself, though. At least I have my CPAP.
They've cut flights from Prince George to Vancouver, so I got into Prince at about ten PM (one AM by my internal clock) and then had a two-hour drive home, on a nondivided mostly-one-lane (per side) highway with minimal streetlights. I succeeded in not driving into a logging truck but it was more stressful than I'd like.
I got home and had forgotten to take out the trash. This morning there are still a few fruit flies hanging around.
Slept for about five hours, interrupted for being too cold, and had an unpleasant dream for the second half of that. But I'm awake now so I may as well face the day etc.
The Gathering was really good. Various personal stuff taking place at the same time was ... not. More later, on both counts, maybe. Today is a day for Processing, in addition to things like groceries and mail and resetting my internal clock.
Good things: I got a lift across the border to the bus station, saving me around 45 minutes' walk in the heat and humidity. And then WestJet upgraded me to first class for the flight from Toronto to Vancouver. Not just first class; the front row, with a truly ridiculous amount of leg room. First class flying is pretty awesome in comparison to normal flying but I don't think it's so awesome that one should spend more than about twenty bucks on it. Or maybe "ten bucks an hour," or some similar rate. I guess the calculus changes if you're planning on drinking on the flight, too.
It's acting like fall up here. The temp dropped to five (40F) overnight. Much more comfortable for me.
Less good things: okay, so, for about a decade any time I checked a bag on a flight home, it went through Chicago, unless I was flying through Chicago and then it went through Denver. This had died off in recent years but, alas, one of my checked bags has gone Missing this time. And it's the bag with my dopkit in it, too, so no shaving this morning. Other than that I'm lacking: my tarot deck; a number of hardcopy books, ranging from "meh" to "dang"; some random miscellaneous stuff that I don't think I care much about. I really like the bag itself, though. At least I have my CPAP.
They've cut flights from Prince George to Vancouver, so I got into Prince at about ten PM (one AM by my internal clock) and then had a two-hour drive home, on a nondivided mostly-one-lane (per side) highway with minimal streetlights. I succeeded in not driving into a logging truck but it was more stressful than I'd like.
I got home and had forgotten to take out the trash. This morning there are still a few fruit flies hanging around.
Slept for about five hours, interrupted for being too cold, and had an unpleasant dream for the second half of that. But I'm awake now so I may as well face the day etc.