Almost Packed
We’re in the final throes of packing for our trip. This year we put together a spreadsheet on Google Docs of all the stuff we know we need to take, and we’re going through and checking off items as we speak.
Phoebe is cleaned up and ready to be loaded.
And the pets are all irritated that we are leaving.
I think that about covers it. Time to pack the laptop.
links for 2009-06-23
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Lafayette based business selling green products. Local and environmentally friendly – bonus!
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Time and again, they and other visitors to the exhibitions have been moved to tears by the vast outpouring of creative feminine energy on display. Christine and I (ourselves now technically middle-aged women) have watched with an increasing sense of awe the exponential growth of our project. When we began we thought a dozen or so people would join in. We seem to have tapped into a parallel universe of female power — I can think of no way to put this anymore, except to say that we have become the channels or mediums for what appears to be an unstoppable force. Why has this force not been channeled before? How is that such power and potential has gone unnoticed? Unrecognized? Un-utilized? If this much of it could be channeled randomly through our living room, imagine what could be achieved with even a modicum of social support and encouragement.
Lime Mint Iced Tea
A new iced tea recipe I plan to try. Since I gave up soda, I’ve been drinking lots of tea, and want some variations for entertainment. I’m leaving out the sugar; I’m not really a fan of sweet tea.
- 1 quart water, boiling
- 4 tea bags
- 1 3/4 cups fresh mint leaves
1/4 cup sugar- 1/4 cup lime juice
Preparation:
Mix tea bags, mint and sugar in hot water, and let steep for 15 minutes. Strain out the tea bags and mint leaves. Chill and add lime juice before serving.
Serves 4
links for 2009-06-21
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Adobe After Effects tutorial to create famous handmade juno opening sequence.
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Interesting polaroids of geometric designs.
links for 2009-06-20
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Photo of a past scene held up at a current scene. Very beautiful the polariods of hospital staff working at a now closed hospital are poignant.
Roswell R2K Road Trip Prep
Today is my last Friday of work before vacation – 2 weeks of it! We’re going to go to the official Last Roswell R2K New Beetle event – this is the annual New Beetle car show that Stephanie attends in Roswell, New Mexico. It’s the 10th Anniversary of the Volkswagen New Beetle, and Stephanie’s car Phoebe turned 10 this year. It’s also the last event of it’s kind, for the most part. It’s becoming harder for people to attend due to the economy and to the age of many of the cars, and putting on a car show is a big process to organize, and the folks who’ve made it such a fun event in the past are worn out.
I went with Stephanie on a very long version of this cross-country trek in 2007, and took in all of Route 66 along the way, traveling all the way to California over 17 days.
Slideshow of Route 66 Trip Photos
This year, we take off Tuesday morning, June 23rd, and meet the rest of the Eastern caravan around Memphis, Tennessee, then proceed on to Roswell over the rest of the week, arriving at the car show on the weekend.
Google Map of the Caravan Route
Since we’ve done this before, we have a pretty good sense of what we need, so we haven’t killed ourselves packing yet. We’ll do a lot of that over the weekend. I’ll post some photos here to my blog and make updates, but I don’t plan to upload all my photos of the trip like I did before. It took a long time and I did very little photo editing on that round, and this time I want to post fewer, but better photos. I’m really looking forward to the time off and spending time with Stephanie, and I’m salivating at the chance to take photos all day long, too.
We’ll also keep in touch via Facebook, and Stephanie will be on Twitter, and I’m setting my blog posts to update Twitter as well.
And as always, you can follow along on the whole trip via the All Pods Go to Roswell webcams, running continuously through the trip by our friend Lisa.
links for 2009-06-17
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1:24 scale miniature stuff.
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The just can't get a hang on that dang ol' internets.
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Hello, I love you.
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