Staycation

When I decided to mentor an Extreme Blue project team this summer, I knew it would throw a monkey wrench into our usual vacation pattern, but I thought we’d manage to get to Worldcon and take at least a one-week vacation in mid-summer.

Worldcon fell victim to the scheduling of Extreme Blue Expo — we could have gone to the con, but I would have had to leave before the Hugo ceremonies, and we decided to skip it instead. But Diane and I knew we could get free this week, so we were all set to do something…until Jeff told us that it was a busy week at his internship (at the JCRC).

So we’re taking a staycation. Jeff’s free on Wednesday, so we’ll do something as a family that day (probably something farther away than San Jose, though at this point, I wouldn’t bet on it), and the rest of the week, Diane and I will have some time to ourselves. Except Thursday, when she’s going to help him with a food distribution project, which required a trip to the county health department this morning to get a TB test read. And Thursday night, when I have improv class.

Maybe after school starts….

A blast from the past (or something like it)

A long, long time ago, I put my first personal website on GeoCities, for the simple reason that it existed, it didn’t get in my way, and it was free. Over time, the second of those reasons became less true, and I switched to blogging, first at editthispage.com, and then to here. I never bothered moving the GeoCities pages, because that would have been something like work.

But now that Yahoo is going to turn off the lights on GeoCities sometime this year, I decided I didn’t want to lose my earliest web efforts (or at least not the travel stuff), and so I copied all of the actual content to this site.

The only pieces that might be of interest to anyone outside my family are my 1998 trip reports: Australia (mostly for WWW9) and the beginning of a never-completed trip report from Hursley and Paris. I wonder what I was going to write about rugby?