Scheduling Conflicts
Mar. 13th, 2009 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladlloydThis weekend, as mentioned in earlier posts, is ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flycon2009's big weekend. I totally wanted to participate, but this weekend has turned out to be extremely busy.
This morning, I noticed the water in the shower was draining slowly, so after my shower I cleaned the drain with this nifty plastic tool I bought a couple of years ago for the sink. It's got little hooks on either side, that grab hair and other obstructions, allowing me to pull them out of the drain. It was only supposed to be used once, then thrown away, so as to prevent injury and possible infection, but I cheat and have used it many times.) Initially, I was pulling the expected tangles of hair out, but then I hit a nasty, sludgy tangle that was wrapped around a slender bit of root. So, now I know we have roots in the sewer line, which could be a real problem. It's nothing we can deal with at this moment, so I'm just going to have to keep my fingers crossed and hope that the root was old, dead, and from the tree we had to have removed a while back.
In the early afternoon, I had to attend to some business matters which took most of the afternoon. This evening was the going away party for my long-time friends' son, who is entering the marines. I've known this young man since he was about four or five, so I really felt I had to be there, even though his decision to join and his desire to see combat really saddens me. (His mom is my friend who was recently diagnosed with MS, plus his youngest brother who is about to graduate from high school has also joined and will be leaving in a few months.) In between my obligations, I tried to check in on Flycon, but ran into some technical difficulties that prevented me from doing more than reading a few posts.
Tomorrow and Sunday I may be able to peek at a few more Flycon events, but this most of the time I'll also be attending the Tucson Festival of Books, a huge event with over 300 participants that's being held at the University of Arizona campus. Since the group that runs our local science fiction convention has a booth, I'll be spending one morning volunteering with them. I also want to visit some of the panels, especially since Charles de Lint, one of my favorite authors who lives much too far away in Canada, is scheduled for a panel, giving me my first opportunity to meet him.
Somewhere in all of this, I'm going to have to make time to do some laundry, too, since I start my new job on Monday.
flycon2009's big weekend. I totally wanted to participate, but this weekend has turned out to be extremely busy. This morning, I noticed the water in the shower was draining slowly, so after my shower I cleaned the drain with this nifty plastic tool I bought a couple of years ago for the sink. It's got little hooks on either side, that grab hair and other obstructions, allowing me to pull them out of the drain. It was only supposed to be used once, then thrown away, so as to prevent injury and possible infection, but I cheat and have used it many times.) Initially, I was pulling the expected tangles of hair out, but then I hit a nasty, sludgy tangle that was wrapped around a slender bit of root. So, now I know we have roots in the sewer line, which could be a real problem. It's nothing we can deal with at this moment, so I'm just going to have to keep my fingers crossed and hope that the root was old, dead, and from the tree we had to have removed a while back.
In the early afternoon, I had to attend to some business matters which took most of the afternoon. This evening was the going away party for my long-time friends' son, who is entering the marines. I've known this young man since he was about four or five, so I really felt I had to be there, even though his decision to join and his desire to see combat really saddens me. (His mom is my friend who was recently diagnosed with MS, plus his youngest brother who is about to graduate from high school has also joined and will be leaving in a few months.) In between my obligations, I tried to check in on Flycon, but ran into some technical difficulties that prevented me from doing more than reading a few posts.
Tomorrow and Sunday I may be able to peek at a few more Flycon events, but this most of the time I'll also be attending the Tucson Festival of Books, a huge event with over 300 participants that's being held at the University of Arizona campus. Since the group that runs our local science fiction convention has a booth, I'll be spending one morning volunteering with them. I also want to visit some of the panels, especially since Charles de Lint, one of my favorite authors who lives much too far away in Canada, is scheduled for a panel, giving me my first opportunity to meet him.
Somewhere in all of this, I'm going to have to make time to do some laundry, too, since I start my new job on Monday.
