Wednesday
Oy.

Let’s see… in the past 14 days, we have covered over 4500 miles:

  • 410 (each way) – Salt Lake City to/from Las Vegas
  • 1830 (each way) – SLIA to/from Dulles Airport
  • 60 (each way) – Dulles to/from Baltimore

…and that doesn’t include the travel within the cities. Yeah… there was a pretty good reason that I was so out of it by the time I went to bed last night. And, I was even in bed by the ungodly (for me) time of 12:15. Twelve-fifteen! That’s almost unheard of!


The weekend was… busy/eventful:

  • Saturday
    • Woke up (good way to start)
    • Watched my obligatory toonage.
    • Got dressed and ready to leave.
    • was kind enough to offer Jess and me a lift to and from SLIA.
    • Got on the plane… flew… slept (kind of)… read…
    • Arrived at Dulles and was taken home by
    • Stayed up for a few hours talking with the family unit.
    • SLEPT.
  • Sunday
    • Hung out around the homestead for the early part of the day.
    • Went (briefly) to the family viewing for my grandmother. Saw my cousins, whom I haven’t seen in a few years. Left early with Adam and Jess; he had to study for exams and it was her birthday – she was nice enough to go with me to B’more, there was no way that I was going to have her stay at the funeral home all afternoon on her birthday.
    • Went to IKEA. ::: bliss :::
    • Drove around my school campus.
    • Went to Phillip’s for dinner. ::: bliss :::
    • Home.
    • Adam, Jess and I went to BWI to pick up my mother and take her to her hotel. Saw my uncle (Mom’s brother) who drove down from NY to attend the funeral; he was staying at the hotel, as well. We stayed there and talked to them for a while. That was fun.
    • Left there and made an abortive trip to the Double T Diner in Catonsville. We made it to the diner fine… it was the seven Baltimore County Police cruisers and the roped-off parking lot that made it abortive. *sigh*
    • Home. Sleep.
  • Monday
    • The funeral. It was a very nice service. I also got to see a lot of people whom I hadn’t seen in a very long time.
    • Took Mom to the airport.
    • Visited two of my godparents.
    • Saw most of the family off (to West Virginia) for the second service (held on Tuesday morning at the church my grandmother attended) and interment; she was buried next to my grandfather.
    • Went to Arundel Mills (WOW!) and met Bret and his gf for dinner at Jillian’s.
    • Home. Packed. Did a little work on the PC… in the hopes that I can get my father to actually use it.
    • Slept.
  • Tuesday
    • Up and out to Dulles for the return trip.
    • STUCK on the I-95 parking lot. *grr* We transferred over to Route 29… where the traffic was no better. What should have been a twenty minute ride from Columbia to Silver Spring took two-and-a-half hours. *GRRRRR* Which means….
    • We missed our flight. *braincramp*
    • We were able to get on the next flight out… an hour later. And, instead of a non-stop flight, we connected in Cincinnati. But…
    • We made it home. Three hours after our originally scheduled arrival time.

    All-in-all, it was a good weekend/trip… despite the reason for going home. It was good to see family and friends. Very good. It had been far too long. My uncle said that he’ll be out here for a visit in the next six weeks or so and, though it hasn’t been confirmed, my father may be coming out next month, too.

    Stray Toasters

    • Dinner/beer with friends after work. *nod*
    • David Bowie on Last Call.
    • BLM’s “controlled burn” project on the east face of the Wasatch Mountains has gotten… out of control. There’s been smoke visible over the peaks since we got back yesterday. *sigh* Jess mentioned that people who had called local police and fire departments were summarily dismissed (“No, it’s not a fire. It’s a controlled burn. There’s no danger.”)… until they mentioned the fact that it was within a few hundred feet of peoples’ homes. That seemed to get authorities’ attention.
    • From Slashdot: Reliance on MS A Danger To National Security
    • Also from Slashdot: RIAA Sues the Wrong Person
    • From CNN: Smart Sofa Recognizes Occupants by Weight
    • Geek Eye for the Average Guy
    • Note to the non-technically inclined…
    • With the possible exception of , did anyone else know that the Dewey Decimal system (the sustem used by libraries to catalog/classify books) is NOT in the public domain? Online Computer Library Center, a nonprofit organization, owns the rights to it… and they charge libraries at least $500 a year to use it. Did I mention the “nonprofit” part? OCLC has sued the Library Hotel, a New York luxury hotel, for trademark infringement. *boggle* Read more about it here.
    • One man’s Total/Terrorist Information Awareness Program… complete with a quote from William Gibson’s Johnny Mnemonic (the short story, not the crappy movie). Very interesting.
    • What the…?!?! A… quiz?! ::: jawdrop :::

      You Are A Mage
      Take the World of Darkness Quiz
      by David J Rust


      Go figure.

    Quote of the Day

    Ima Goodlady/Sedusa: And just where do you think you’re going?
    Blossom: We’re going to fight crime!
    Buttercup: It’s what we do!
    Bubbles: DUH!

    Namaste.