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[jazzfish]

Survived 16 hrs of travel, a week at the beach with a flaky net connection and four people trying to download and play Diablo 3, 30 hours in Richmond, an all-too-compressed few days in the DC area, work, and a fairly easy flight from National to Madison. Am now At Wiscon, more or less.

Been reading everything that goes by on DW/LJ, even though I've not been posting. Been recuperating. Starting to feel like a human being again. Not being At Work has been good for me, I think.

Will write more, later.

Comments

[aamcnamara]

*flail* I am looking forward to seeing you!

[jazzfish]

:) Likewise! And to being surprised by your non-lack of hair!

[aamcnamara]

It regularly surprises me, I assure you!

[rbandrews]

Yeah, yours makes mine (which will begin tomorrow) look bush league: fly out of IAH tomorrow afternoon to Wiscon, then Madison back to IAH, sleep / launder / repack until Tuesday afternoon when I fly out of IAH again to Frankfurt and thence to Berlin. Five days in Berlin (two touristy and three hacky), then fly Berlin to Newark and Newark to IAH. Then get up the next day and come back to work. :)

I have a passport and plane tickets and a hotel room and a bunch of German money and an EU-to-US power adapter and a toothbrush. There's not a whole lot else I can do to prepare.

[thanate]

Yay for easy travel, and sorry I missed you guys in DC.

[jazzfish]

I dunno, transoceanic flights are nothing to sneeze at. At least you have a stopover at home, which helps a lot.

About all I can think you might be missing is a freshly loaded ereader...

[jazzfish]

Me too! I hadn't realised quite how super-compressed my stay in the DC area was going to be, with the result that I saw only something like six or seven of the N people I would Really Like to catch up with. Next time, definitely staying longer than a couple of days.

[rbandrews]

Oh, I actually have that. The only thing I plan to read soon that it's missing is A Paradigm of Earth because I couldn't find a pirated ebook of it and I didn't want to buy it a second time.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Dang, that's a LOT of travel!

[jazzfish]

It was... let's see. Leave the house at 3:30 PM, city bus to Amtrak, Amtrak bus to Seattle (because it's something like $200 cheaper to fly out of Seattle), Seattle light rail to SeaTac, catch an 11 PM flight to Philly and then to Norfolk, meet Jeff K-- at Norfolk who drives us to Kill Devil Hill, NC, arriving at about two PM but with a three-hour timeshift. So more like 18 hours of travel. Although we had like a three-hour layover in Philly which was not nearly as unpleasant as it might have been.

But yeah. That was a busy afternoon/evening/next-day.