Long Overdue Update
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bjarvisI've been busy as hell the past few days and although I'm still in busy mode today, I have a small break before the next crisis comes down the sewer...
Last Wednesday,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kent4str and I flew to Seattle to visit with rlegters and tdjohnsn en route to Vancouver. The flight was uneventful and our car reservation was upgraded from a Dodge Stratus to a Subaru Outback for no extra charge. MapQuest directed us to a left-hand turn on Aurora where none exists: median barriers can be so inconvenient.
Alas,tdjohnsn had to work Wednesday & Thursday but rlegters took us on a scenic tour of Seattle on Wednesday, then over to Port Townsend & area on Thursday. Click for photos.
On Friday, we had brunch with friends from my high school/Univ of Waterloo days, Beth and Stephan. With all of our bags packed into the Outback, the four of us headed to Vancouver for the weekend, ostensibly to attend the Unison 2006 lgbt choral music festival at the University of British Columbia. As a founder & long-time member of Singing Out! of Toronto, I was looking forward to seeing lots of folks I know from chorus circles around Canada; attending the concert blocks themselves weren't as much a priority as seeing more of Vancouver and spending time withrlegters and tdjohnsn. Click here for photos of the Vancouver portion of the trip.
Monday, the four of us went for a four-hour cruise on the Britannia, along with large number of chorus folks and a locals of Vancouver. We were a little apprehensive about being isolated on a boat for four hours, but it was a great time: we had a chance to get reacquainted with long-absent friends and make a few new ones among the locals, and the scenery was spectacular despite the occasional cold wind & drizzle. Click here for cruise photos.
When we returned to land and had a quick bite, we headed back to Seattle to catch our 11:30 PM red-eye flight back to Washington. The flight itself was uneventful --no screaming babies!-- although we were both too exhausted to do more than a couple of hours of telecommuting on Wednesday.
Coming back to the working world again has been painful. It was a fantastic vacation, thanks in no small part torlegters and tdjohnsn who are best travel companions one could hope to have (and special bonus points to rlegters who did much of the driving in areas unfamiliar to me, sparing us much stress & anxiety). Returning to the work-related suckage didn't improve my mood at all either but we'll save that for another post.
Last Wednesday,
kent4str and I flew to Seattle to visit with rlegters and tdjohnsn en route to Vancouver. The flight was uneventful and our car reservation was upgraded from a Dodge Stratus to a Subaru Outback for no extra charge. MapQuest directed us to a left-hand turn on Aurora where none exists: median barriers can be so inconvenient.Alas,
tdjohnsn had to work Wednesday & Thursday but rlegters took us on a scenic tour of Seattle on Wednesday, then over to Port Townsend & area on Thursday. Click for photos.On Friday, we had brunch with friends from my high school/Univ of Waterloo days, Beth and Stephan. With all of our bags packed into the Outback, the four of us headed to Vancouver for the weekend, ostensibly to attend the Unison 2006 lgbt choral music festival at the University of British Columbia. As a founder & long-time member of Singing Out! of Toronto, I was looking forward to seeing lots of folks I know from chorus circles around Canada; attending the concert blocks themselves weren't as much a priority as seeing more of Vancouver and spending time with
rlegters and tdjohnsn. Click here for photos of the Vancouver portion of the trip.Monday, the four of us went for a four-hour cruise on the Britannia, along with large number of chorus folks and a locals of Vancouver. We were a little apprehensive about being isolated on a boat for four hours, but it was a great time: we had a chance to get reacquainted with long-absent friends and make a few new ones among the locals, and the scenery was spectacular despite the occasional cold wind & drizzle. Click here for cruise photos.
When we returned to land and had a quick bite, we headed back to Seattle to catch our 11:30 PM red-eye flight back to Washington. The flight itself was uneventful --no screaming babies!-- although we were both too exhausted to do more than a couple of hours of telecommuting on Wednesday.
Coming back to the working world again has been painful. It was a fantastic vacation, thanks in no small part to
rlegters and tdjohnsn who are best travel companions one could hope to have (and special bonus points to rlegters who did much of the driving in areas unfamiliar to me, sparing us much stress & anxiety). Returning to the work-related suckage didn't improve my mood at all either but we'll save that for another post.
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seattle photos?
Date: 2006-05-25 04:41 pm (UTC)a scenic tour of Seattle on Wednesday, then over to Port Townsend & area on Thursday. Click for photos.
this link is presently broken - I end up at microsoft.com for some reason - so no seattle pix are seen. can ya fix? or are the photos Top Secret (and/or blackmail quality) - enquiring minds need to know.
Re: seattle photos?
Date: 2006-05-25 04:49 pm (UTC)Re: seattle photos?
Date: 2006-05-25 05:01 pm (UTC)as to microsoft - how very odd, since I'm using mozilla firefox; and mangled URLs just give me standard 404s and/or "server not found" popups. not that I'm desparate to know, but might it be your site's host's preferences?
I know nothing of such matters myself -- dammit, jim, i'm a chemist, not a web-geek -- but idly curious.
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Date: 2006-05-26 12:22 pm (UTC)