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rowanfWell, I'm in the totally crazy week-before-a-patent-meeting scramble... but Micropatent is down again and I guess I can take the time to write up my week.
Tuesday dinner went really well, except that it takes longer to cook 24 individual meat muffins than it did to do four. Doh! I thought they were yummy though. Denise said, "Oh good, comfort food." and it was only then I realized that probably *was* what was behind the meatloaf idea. Meat & potatoes, green beans and salad. Very basic. Very yummy. I also drank a lot of Honeyrun Cranberry Honey Wine which turned out to be tart with a honey finish that I quite liked.
I got my 400th cache Tuesday, a simple micro with a cool history lesson. It is called No Undertakers or Blacksmiths and is near a 1920's holiday community that had a deed restriction against the same (and various other working class trades or occupations). It sure is pretty! I'm very jazzed at hitting another milestone. 400 between 10/2/05 and 5/23/06 - not quite 2 a day but over 1 for sure. Go me.
Wednesday I worked hard at work, caught a couple more caches at lunch, worked some more. Went home and had leftovers and enjoyed an evening with Russell. The URI Global Council is meeting here in Menlo Park this week and Wednesday night was their open house evening. I hadn't heard about it in time though and repected date night. Don Frew really thinks I should come by and interview folks for Interfaith Today and so arranged to get me in tonight. That will probably be better anyway because folks would have been needing to talk to donors and such last night. I have been experimenting with my ipod and italk and I think I can just hold it up or put it on a table and do interviews. Jeff warned me at lunch that there is sometimes a bug that erases everything if you record long segments, so I'll be sure to stop and save often. It occurred to me as I was riding back from lunch that I will be "the press" coming in to do interviews. *laugh* Cool!
Tomorrow, of course, BayCon starts. It will be nice to see folks. And to go to the Leigh Ann Memorial Filk on Friday. And Steve just mentioned, the Cynthia McQuillan memorial on Saturday. Sadness. Oh top of all that, somehow I managed to schedule myself as the visiting officiant at the Interfaith Center at the Presidio on Sunday. So no late Saturday night partying this year.
So now if Micropatent would come back up and let me get some work done, the afternoon might pass faster. Oh, a few days ago I mentioned there was *something* I kept meaning to say and kept forgetting... it was that I bought 13 boxes of soap in Canada. Evidently Yardley hasn't cut them off yet. I should be good for a bit over a year at least.
Tuesday dinner went really well, except that it takes longer to cook 24 individual meat muffins than it did to do four. Doh! I thought they were yummy though. Denise said, "Oh good, comfort food." and it was only then I realized that probably *was* what was behind the meatloaf idea. Meat & potatoes, green beans and salad. Very basic. Very yummy. I also drank a lot of Honeyrun Cranberry Honey Wine which turned out to be tart with a honey finish that I quite liked.
I got my 400th cache Tuesday, a simple micro with a cool history lesson. It is called No Undertakers or Blacksmiths and is near a 1920's holiday community that had a deed restriction against the same (and various other working class trades or occupations). It sure is pretty! I'm very jazzed at hitting another milestone. 400 between 10/2/05 and 5/23/06 - not quite 2 a day but over 1 for sure. Go me.
Wednesday I worked hard at work, caught a couple more caches at lunch, worked some more. Went home and had leftovers and enjoyed an evening with Russell. The URI Global Council is meeting here in Menlo Park this week and Wednesday night was their open house evening. I hadn't heard about it in time though and repected date night. Don Frew really thinks I should come by and interview folks for Interfaith Today and so arranged to get me in tonight. That will probably be better anyway because folks would have been needing to talk to donors and such last night. I have been experimenting with my ipod and italk and I think I can just hold it up or put it on a table and do interviews. Jeff warned me at lunch that there is sometimes a bug that erases everything if you record long segments, so I'll be sure to stop and save often. It occurred to me as I was riding back from lunch that I will be "the press" coming in to do interviews. *laugh* Cool!
Tomorrow, of course, BayCon starts. It will be nice to see folks. And to go to the Leigh Ann Memorial Filk on Friday. And Steve just mentioned, the Cynthia McQuillan memorial on Saturday. Sadness. Oh top of all that, somehow I managed to schedule myself as the visiting officiant at the Interfaith Center at the Presidio on Sunday. So no late Saturday night partying this year.
So now if Micropatent would come back up and let me get some work done, the afternoon might pass faster. Oh, a few days ago I mentioned there was *something* I kept meaning to say and kept forgetting... it was that I bought 13 boxes of soap in Canada. Evidently Yardley hasn't cut them off yet. I should be good for a bit over a year at least.
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Date: 2006-05-25 10:31 pm (UTC)I look forward to hearing those interviews tonight; thank you in advance for doing them; hope all the tech goes well. What kind of mic are you using?
I never did ask Leigh Ann that thing I've been wondering for nearly 14 years now - what's the significance of the tune "the blacksmith" that she recorded it on so many albums -- aside from being a kickass courtship/love lost song with the line "I will never die for love, young men believe me"
I'm glad the concom has opened that memorial filksing to the broader community - I hadn't planned on getting to BayCon, but hope to get there, for that.
*hugs*
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Date: 2006-05-26 04:54 am (UTC)"English traditional. Elton once had the bizarre idea that we should put a different version of this on every Annwn album. Thankfully, that didn't happen ... but this African-inspired version is a pretty good one."
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Date: 2006-05-26 06:47 pm (UTC)I did 10 interviews! It was really fun. I was just using a Griffin iTalk on my iPod as a recorder. It works pretty well actually.
Hope to see you tonight. *hugs*
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Date: 2006-05-26 02:41 am (UTC)no subject
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