Moving Day

I've been trying to time shift, but despite staying up until after 4 AM this morning, I've only managed to shift about two hours forward. Well, I usually can't sleep on airplanes, so maybe that will make a difference tomorrow night. Meanwhile, today is for doing laundry and packing my bags, which seem to get heavier by the minute as I think of other things that might be needed in Australia. Sometimes it's not that I don't think I could buy what I needed there, but that I figure that when I will need whatever it is, I won't be able to afford the time to go find it.

Last night I helped co-host the live coverage of the Sir Julius Vogel Awards Ceremony at Au Contraire, working from, as I described it, "the palatial ConReporter.com studio in Fremont, California." We did get at least 9 people in the coverage, which is not bad considering what time it was in most of the rest of the world that might have cared about the results. It also gave us a chance to test out some of the things we might do at Aussiecon 4, coverage-wise. We'll say more if low-probability Sekrit Plans work out.

Lisa Will Appreciate This

I am attempting to collapse from two personal bags to one. If possible, I hope to leave my briefcase at home and use my computer backpack for both. This afternoon, I'm emptying both bags and trying to see if I can consolidate them and decide what does not need to go to Australia with me. While doing this, I dug down to the bottom of my computer backpack and found the external 4-port powered USB hub that I thought I'd lost months ago, although the power supply itself appears to be missing. (This last is not a problem as I have at least one other power supply of the same output voltage and plug type.) This is very much like the floppy hat that Lisa bought at an amusement park in Osaka that was lost for more than a year before resurfacing from a pocket in a jacket she regularly wore but didn't regularly check. I've been carrying around this hub all this time!