my weekend
Dec. 3rd, 2006 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowanfFriday was a strange day. I had planned to take an animation class in Second Life but the instructor never showed. This threw my whole day off, I only got about half of the grocery shopping done before I needed to meet with the head of the medical library (combined skype call and tour in SL). I got off in time for circle, which was very nice. We did work for success in all our endeavors since everyone has something needing a bit of a boost on their plate.
Saturday morning Rusell and Erika and I went to the Original Pancake House for breakfast and then grabbed a cache in Japantown. It was a multicache that took you around to the history info stand on four corner of an intersection. It was cool to remind myself about the local history. And there was a Hawaiian flavor Japanese shop where I bought some holiday cards. I love Hawaiian holiday cards -- these have a hibicus along with a couple of ornaments. Saturday night we all went to Jim's 60th birthday party which was really fun and I knew everyone there. I really like the way they can decorate cakes with pictures these days.
Sunday I was up by 6am and up in the Almaden Quicksilver Park by 8am to join 10 cachers going after a many-stage multicache cache and some others along the trail. We did over 3 miles with 1,000 feet of elevation (each way). Wow, that was a steep trail. I almost gave up but everyone was so nice and encouraged me and I did it. We were all standing around afterwards talking about other caches versus going out to a meal together. I don't think anyone went to eat -- the lure of caching was just too great. I went with three other people to hit some on a much gentler trail at the other end of the park. All in all I got 16 caches and walked over 7 miles. My feet, ankles and knees are not entirely happy with me but I held up pretty well considering. Go me.
I got home in time to go into Second Life and staff the Health Info Island booth at the equivalent of a street fair. Very like working for any health non-profit. There were way too many people at the fair for the system to handle so it was very hard to teleport in. I'd hate to be a resident of that sim. I wonder if landholders get teleport preference? It was a nice fair though and I had fun evangelizing our library.
Tonight Erika and Russell and I went downtown and rode the ferris wheel and looked at Christmas in the Park. I really love ferris wheels! I also had a churro whilst we walked around. Yum. It must be the holiday season. Churros and roasted sugary nuts scent the air. Double yum!
Saturday morning Rusell and Erika and I went to the Original Pancake House for breakfast and then grabbed a cache in Japantown. It was a multicache that took you around to the history info stand on four corner of an intersection. It was cool to remind myself about the local history. And there was a Hawaiian flavor Japanese shop where I bought some holiday cards. I love Hawaiian holiday cards -- these have a hibicus along with a couple of ornaments. Saturday night we all went to Jim's 60th birthday party which was really fun and I knew everyone there. I really like the way they can decorate cakes with pictures these days.
Sunday I was up by 6am and up in the Almaden Quicksilver Park by 8am to join 10 cachers going after a many-stage multicache cache and some others along the trail. We did over 3 miles with 1,000 feet of elevation (each way). Wow, that was a steep trail. I almost gave up but everyone was so nice and encouraged me and I did it. We were all standing around afterwards talking about other caches versus going out to a meal together. I don't think anyone went to eat -- the lure of caching was just too great. I went with three other people to hit some on a much gentler trail at the other end of the park. All in all I got 16 caches and walked over 7 miles. My feet, ankles and knees are not entirely happy with me but I held up pretty well considering. Go me.
I got home in time to go into Second Life and staff the Health Info Island booth at the equivalent of a street fair. Very like working for any health non-profit. There were way too many people at the fair for the system to handle so it was very hard to teleport in. I'd hate to be a resident of that sim. I wonder if landholders get teleport preference? It was a nice fair though and I had fun evangelizing our library.
Tonight Erika and Russell and I went downtown and rode the ferris wheel and looked at Christmas in the Park. I really love ferris wheels! I also had a churro whilst we walked around. Yum. It must be the holiday season. Churros and roasted sugary nuts scent the air. Double yum!
