The Myth & The Majesty

I have started and deleted a half-dozen posts in the last two weeks; nothing sounded good. Or it was terribly cliched. To summarize: - What if we all just made the agreement to NOT go shopping tomorrow? Do you think that would maybe convince stores to keep their Black Friday sales on Black Friday? - We have a crazy, crazy Christmas coming up. But I'll talk more about that in December. - I'm hosting Thanksgiving tomorrow and ... my house still isn't clean. Because this is me we're talking about here. - I'm thankful for a lot of things today, including cooperative weather, chocolate, and having most of a day to just get things in order. Whee! Happy Thanksgiving, all. Perhaps I'll see you this weekend...

Step One: Purchase an alarmingly expensive ticket from Denver to Seoul. Check! Mia Sorella and Jay are getting married a few days after Christmas and I can finally say that yes, I will be attending. I'd been putting off this purchase, waiting and watching for that elusive ticket sweet spot. It never came. Seriously, it was twice as much as the ticket for my trip two years ago , a result of traveling during a holiday (and a not-entirely-necessary hike in prices in recent history). But it's done! Which means I can move on to all of the other planning that needs to go on for the next six weeks. Like Thanksgiving. Which I'm hosting. And I'm not ready for. And then the trip itself. And some potential changes come the new year. (No, I'm not moving, changing jobs, or getting married myself.) Which brings me to my questions for some of my fellow travelers. Any recommended transportation to DIA? I'd love to not park a car for the week (we can get a ride...

A few weeks ago, I noticed a shift. It may have had something to do with my job. As the youngest full-timer, I get a fair bit of flack about my age. (I also get to fix all things electronic.) It confuses guests when they think I'm a summer staff holdover, or that I should be in class right then. And sometimes the conclusions that are reached are just plain confusing. A few weeks ago, we had a group in that required shuttling. The Bossman had been taking care of that most of the time, but my turn came around and the question that was asked was ... interesting. "Are you qualified to drive the golf cart?" It turned out that they didn't just think I was young -- they thought I was really young. And I genuinely didn't know what to do with that. Don't get me wrong. I understand that on some level it's a compliment -- I mean, who doesn't want to be considered young? Every time I get carded, it comes with a, "Oh! Wow, you look good for your a...

Egads. This guy summed up my current dilemma quite well. Part 1 Part 2 Now, to find broccoli to feed that dang monkey instead of the sugar rush he seems to be having...

[And back to the trip blogs. I'm going to finish them this year, dangnabbit!] When I woke up the next morning, it was to the realization that I was halfway through my trip. There'd been the drive out, Portland, and the ocean. After that came the return drive, the desert, and Denver. I was one week in with a week to go and a lot of miles to cover. After breakfast and a long chat with the director, I packed up and hit the road. It was a little after nine when I turned east again, leaving the ocean behind me. This was my longest stretch of "not much" -- 1,200 miles ahead with two overnight stops, no real purpose except to eventually make it to Utah. On the way out, I had driven with an aim; I was going west, I was seeing things I'd never seen before. While the scenery was still new, going east felt different. It was a hint that eventually I'd be headed home again, but I'd also hit That Point in a trip. It was saturation. There is a point in every s...

For your amusement and clicking, here are the links to what I read/watched/surfed instead of cleaning my house this evening. 1. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries . Why did I not know of these when they were new? Oh, what I was missing ... At the very least, I could have then watched it in several parts instead of all at once. Yikes. (If you're a P&P fan, go check it out. Give it at least five videos -- they get better and better as it goes, and they do a fantastic job of modernizing scenarios. It's not always what you'd expect.) 2. TMQ. Every week, I learn something new. 3. BookBub.com ... This one's just plain dangerous. It's a lot better than the usual. Sometimes I get into Wikipedia spirals that even I don't understand. Now about that mess...