Not that it matters these days, but it is a new trip. We set out last Thursday in the motorhome after needing 6 new tires and new front shocks. But it's a much smoother ride now and safer. We stopped on National Forest land for the night and made it to Yakima Friday and stayed with a friend. His wife's funeral was Saturday and it was lovely. That's unusual for me to say but the minister truly captured her spirit without slipping in a specific sermon. Her husband honored her wishes and had a cookie buffet. So many yummy cookies.
Afterward we were invited to their friend's house for tacos. Most of the people were strangers to us but made us feel totally at home. They put out quite a spread. Then the gray haired old men threw plastic hatchets at a plastic target.
All right, I'll bite: how do plastic hatchets stick to a plastic target? My condolences to your friend. And to you. Meanwhile, barring disaster, in 35 minutes, I'm off-duty for the next two weeks. Tomorrow morning, I catch the Coast Starlight for two weeks in Northern California. San Francisco and Sacramento. I think the only kind of RV I'd ever want to have would be the kind with eight or twelve wheels, all of them flanged, no engine, and a Janney coupler (and brake hoses and HEP electrical connections) at either end. The kind that, if you want to go anywhere, you call Amtrak, and have it coupled onto the end of a train.
Not something that interests me but they were having fun. I hope your trip goes well. It's likely to be hot in Sacramento.
Having fun in Washington. The grandkids are all in performing arts. We were able to help our grandson's class paint sets. Theatre kids are so fabulous. Sadly we have to leave before the play but we are here for the dress rehearsal. Our grandson is Hades. We attended a half hour performance of the Wizard of Oz with the younger kids. Our grandson was assisting backstage. I wish I could post the video of Dorothy singing. That little girl can sing!
Washington as in the State? Or Washington as in DC? First San Francisco stay went well. I had to do some tweaking on my schedule (I didn't anticipate that the Seaplane Lagoon ferry wouldn't be running on the day I'd planned to visit the USS Hornet, and I didn't anticipate that the USS Pampanito would be closed for construction work on the dock), but I'll be able to visit the Computer History Museum tomorrow, and the Hornet on Friday. My Sacramento stay went well, except for the heat wave, and sore (and blistered) feet, and it looks like next year, I'll once again be able to stay in the Vagabond: there are banners up about refurbishment and reopening. My hostel stay was comfortable enough, but there were a few things I should have packed, that I had no reason to think about before. Now on my way back to San Francisco.
Yesterday, I spent the morning visiting the USS Hornet, and then spent a couple of hours at the Disney Family Museum, before changing into my suit and tie, for a concert at Davies Hall. Greetings from somewhere between the south end of Vandenberg, and Santa Barbara. On my left is a cattle ranch; on my right, the Pacific.
Didn't realize it had been so long since I checked in. We got home from Washington (state, our daughter's family lives in the Seattle area) on Tuesday the 3rd and immediately set off to a Murderbot watch party. A little fun and relaxation with friends. Then spent Wednesday trying to get prepared for my sister's visit. She showed up with her 6"4' 230# grandson with no extra food! Luckily he was okay with goat stew and omelettes since we have plenty of eggs. I'm happy to hear your trip went well. Given the choice between cattle ranches and The Pacific; I'll take the ocean. We've been to the Disney Family Museum (an old LP meet) and I would really like to make it again. My sister is off visiting other people for a few days but will be back Wednesday. Saturday "The Family" will decend upon our home for brunch. We have the most room so it's always us. We finally got the pool (small above ground) filled and balanced so folks can cool off. Hope you're home safe and sound.
What's a "murderbot"? I have family in the Seattle area, too. A cousin in Dupont. She used to live in Steilacoom (the running joke was that she was conveniently close to the insane asylum).
Good question. Not my kind of show but Rod and our friends like it. It's a science fiction series streaming on Apple. "A security android struggles with emotions and free will while balancing dangerous missions and desire for isolation, evading detection of its self-hacking as it finds its place."
I have a very old, very cheap, Android tablet that hasn't worked in years. It was slow and clunky when I got it, and it went downhill from there. Anyway, for a screen background, I took my usual brick wall, (which I've been using for decades, in various iterations, since the first time I customized a bootable Mac floppy disk) and put Commander Data's face in the middle of it. Because he's an android. When I bought my System76 Meerkat desktop Linux box (even more compact than a Mac Mini!) I decorated my brick wall with a picture of a meerkat, standing up in the familiar "sentinel" pose, looking in a mirror, with Tux the Linux Penguin looking back at him. Years later, when I got my present Chromebook, I took a piece of mirror-finish aluminized paper, wrapped it around a book, stuck on a "Google Chrome" icon, and photographed it, then put that in the middle of my brick wall, for the chromebook. Because it's a chrome book.
