Packing Eve, Leaving Eve, Whatever…
I depart on a long trip to The North tomorrow. What last minute rituals am I completing?
Well, first I had to watch a video of casting on for my next scarf knitting project, which you can see pictured here. (I don’t knit often enough to remember how to cast on, how lame is that!) Everyone cross your fingers that they don’t abscond with my lovely wooden knitting needles at security. (I’ve traveled successfully with them thus far, but one never knows.)
Next, I had to download some trash novels to my Kindle to temper my Infinite Jest reading, which is taxing, to say the least.
Then, there was the joy of finishing two presentations for the Mayor’s Institute on City Design in the midst of a complete break down of the ever-sucky Windows operating system, which was running on a virtual machine on my Mac, and resulted in my being unable to print, and limped along when I was working with PowerPoint…well, let’s just say that was a nightmare.
Arranged transportation to airport. Check. Trying out Fred at Silver Star Car! Will report my findings after what I hope is a smooth ride.
The travel socks, crap, I can’t forget the travel socks! I am going all old lady and will be bringing a pair of cotton compression socks with me for the flight that are supposed to improve circulation and therefore comfort on long hauls. (Tom and I both bought a pair and will report back as well!)
My God, between the knitting and the socks, I’ll have to order some hot water with lemon and I’ll be set — granny all the way.
And now, they are saying my flight is going to be leaving 2 hours late, but I still have to get to the airport at the original time, even though they changed my connection in Atlanta to reflect the later departure. *BIG SIGH*
I feel weird leaving before Tom and the girls — I am going to miss them! (I’m going back a few days early for the conference.)
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Compression stockings are great. Wish I had them known about them for my international flights. Want to keep those legs comfy and looking young!
BTW – Looking forward to seeing you here in Oregon if you have the time.
Claro! You won’t be able to avoid us.