Still not much going on here....
Jul. 21st, 2014 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlk(egads, that's annoying -- in order to be able to post, I have to allow a context-sensitive ad script, and in the course of reloading the page after I allow it, LJ loses the text, so I have to retype. booo. still better than FB, though. fsvo.)
SR and I ran away to DetCon last weekend, and a reasonable time was had by all. She had issues with the elevators (has never done well with high-rises, I expect partly due to lack of exposure to them, and doesn't have the routine balancing of pressures figured out), and the weekend airhandling at the RenCen could be better. The only panels I was interested in going to were either Friday am before we left for the con or Saturday during the ballgame. And the ballgame wasn't all that interesting -- I've been to worse, but it was damp and dreary too, which never helps. I was somewhat disappointed in the consuite after the Michigan focus of the bid parties -- there was no Faygo or TowneClub and only intermittent Vernor's; no Better Made or Germack's snacks; and Fri and Sat evenings it was taken over by WorldCon bid parties, leaving no place to get a soda other than the hotel vending machines or the foodcourt in the basement.
The gardens have been getting away from me again. It will only get worse before it gets better, as today was spent out with DB and a couple of his friends finding jeans for him, and tomorrow is Driver's Ed. OTOH, tomorrow is the last classroom session, and then he's got two more hours of driving and two more of observing before he's done with class.
SR found a monarch caterpillar on the milkweed yesterday. whee. Unfortunately, when she went out with the camera this morning he(?) was nowhere to be found. We hope he just moved to another plant.... She tells me that the baby cardinal has lost his floofy pants and now has a mohawk. :)
SR and I ran away to DetCon last weekend, and a reasonable time was had by all. She had issues with the elevators (has never done well with high-rises, I expect partly due to lack of exposure to them, and doesn't have the routine balancing of pressures figured out), and the weekend airhandling at the RenCen could be better. The only panels I was interested in going to were either Friday am before we left for the con or Saturday during the ballgame. And the ballgame wasn't all that interesting -- I've been to worse, but it was damp and dreary too, which never helps. I was somewhat disappointed in the consuite after the Michigan focus of the bid parties -- there was no Faygo or TowneClub and only intermittent Vernor's; no Better Made or Germack's snacks; and Fri and Sat evenings it was taken over by WorldCon bid parties, leaving no place to get a soda other than the hotel vending machines or the foodcourt in the basement.
The gardens have been getting away from me again. It will only get worse before it gets better, as today was spent out with DB and a couple of his friends finding jeans for him, and tomorrow is Driver's Ed. OTOH, tomorrow is the last classroom session, and then he's got two more hours of driving and two more of observing before he's done with class.
SR found a monarch caterpillar on the milkweed yesterday. whee. Unfortunately, when she went out with the camera this morning he(?) was nowhere to be found. We hope he just moved to another plant.... She tells me that the baby cardinal has lost his floofy pants and now has a mohawk. :)
