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Family Matters
Aug. 3rd, 2019 06:35 pmAs I expected, it took me quite a while to get to sleep, what with all the caffeine I had yesterday, but I still didn't bother to set an alarm for this morning. Sure enough, I woke up on my own about the time my alarm would have gone off, then went back to bed for a couple more hours, which still gave me plenty of time to have breakfast, check my messages, deal with some Dublin Worldcon business, and then get over to Sacramento Post-Acute and connect with my sister. After spending some time dealing with various mechanical things (making sure her phone was programmed correctly, going over my travel plans with her), we got her an extra oxygen bottle and checked her out of the nursing facility and drove over to A Touch of Britain for lunch. Both she and I like this place. She got a lunch she enjoyed, and I enjoyed the tea and scones. (I needed little more given that I'd had breakfast.)
( My Day in Sacramento )
Some joker who used this hotel room previously turned the cooling on the mini-fridge all the way up to maximum, so the milk and sodas that I bought yesterday were nearly frozen solid when I got back to the room. I turned the dial back to a more ordinary setting and thawed out my drinks to have with my dinner.
Later today, I expect to take advantage of the hot tub for a second night. I never have time for that sort of thing on convention travel, so it's nice when I get a chance to lay out and soak. Tomorrow morning I head for home. I'm glad that I didn't decide to cut corners and skip the second hotel night. Not only did it make it possible for us to buy the rocking chair, but I would have been an unhappy driver tying to get home this afternoon. Furthermore, the rest areas at Gold Run are now closed for maintenance, so I would not have even had the easy location to stop and lay up, even if I had driven the RV, which I did not. Instead, I've got Giants baseball playing on the computer and I'm taking it easy. It's the calm before the storm, which starts next weekend for Lisa and I, but has already begun for many of my friends who are either in transit or already in Ireland.
( My Day in Sacramento )
Some joker who used this hotel room previously turned the cooling on the mini-fridge all the way up to maximum, so the milk and sodas that I bought yesterday were nearly frozen solid when I got back to the room. I turned the dial back to a more ordinary setting and thawed out my drinks to have with my dinner.
Later today, I expect to take advantage of the hot tub for a second night. I never have time for that sort of thing on convention travel, so it's nice when I get a chance to lay out and soak. Tomorrow morning I head for home. I'm glad that I didn't decide to cut corners and skip the second hotel night. Not only did it make it possible for us to buy the rocking chair, but I would have been an unhappy driver tying to get home this afternoon. Furthermore, the rest areas at Gold Run are now closed for maintenance, so I would not have even had the easy location to stop and lay up, even if I had driven the RV, which I did not. Instead, I've got Giants baseball playing on the computer and I'm taking it easy. It's the calm before the storm, which starts next weekend for Lisa and I, but has already begun for many of my friends who are either in transit or already in Ireland.
