- Mon, 14:40: DW entry: Current progress on the sex-ed hat (large, arguably nsfw images) http://t.co/breUA33d5M
- Mon, 17:34: Working on candied ginger at the parents'. Mama, all the aunts, and Tay have gone for a walk. It's Dad, the uncles, and me.
- Mon, 17:36: Fitbit's battery is flat. There may or may not be an attempt to jury-rig a charger. Dad is diving into his soldering bin.
- Mon, 17:47: Dad is shrink-wrapping some batteries (~5v worth). Heat gun is out. Uncle making tea. Other uncle napping.
- Mon, 17:54: RT @EvaSaidIt: @sassycrass "Go home atheism; you're drunk."
- Mon, 17:56: Dad has gone in search of little wires. Soldering iron heating up.
- Mon, 18:07: Dad is carefully stripping wires in the kitchen. Ginger syrup has thickened.
- Mon, 18:42: Attempting to charge http://t.co/oy2VI5oss8
- Mon, 19:03: Candied ginger cooling. Tay making cranberry sauce in the ginger pan. Clippy at ~50% charge.
- Mon, 19:40: #Fitbit nearly charged. 3 fresh AAA batteries @ 4.8v, + to the starboard terminal. 2 pieces scotch tape secure wires http://t.co/SCDpMRdOMT
Oct. 1st, 2013
I'll attempt to write up the trip later. Pretty much everything was lovely except for when a premenstrual mood drop hit me and I hated everything. Thankfully ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zarhooie talked me down from that and then everything was okay.
The highlight was probably when my fitbit ran out of juice so I googled it and my dad shoved together about the right amount of batteries and then I had to figure out how to get the juice into the thing. Uncle Davy wound up with the winning suggestion, which was scotch tape. It was the sort of creative family project that turns out to be a lot of fun despite the impetus being not-fun. I'd resigned myself to losing two days of steps, but as it was I'm not sure I actually lost anything.
Tay and I had a slumber party with the two-person Cards Against Humanity variety. Two discards. We exhausted ourselves laughing. No one peed themselves, but it was a near thing.
I saw Em, and her brother. Em is of course my age (exactly), so having her be my age when I got there was not surprising. Since we drifted apart somewhat in later years, my impression of her brother is sort of frozen at its elementary school state, which meant he was fantastically older than me. These days, one year older? That's my bff's age, which is basically my age. I had a few moments over that.
We saw a few of Tay's old classmates, and that was good.
I didn't wind up doing very many touristy things because I needed sleep desperately. I hadn't brought any of my own pillows with me, which made things less comfortable for me than they might have been.
I'm safely home. Tay is there for another week. She may go to Burning Moose.
zarhooie talked me down from that and then everything was okay. The highlight was probably when my fitbit ran out of juice so I googled it and my dad shoved together about the right amount of batteries and then I had to figure out how to get the juice into the thing. Uncle Davy wound up with the winning suggestion, which was scotch tape. It was the sort of creative family project that turns out to be a lot of fun despite the impetus being not-fun. I'd resigned myself to losing two days of steps, but as it was I'm not sure I actually lost anything.
Tay and I had a slumber party with the two-person Cards Against Humanity variety. Two discards. We exhausted ourselves laughing. No one peed themselves, but it was a near thing.
I saw Em, and her brother. Em is of course my age (exactly), so having her be my age when I got there was not surprising. Since we drifted apart somewhat in later years, my impression of her brother is sort of frozen at its elementary school state, which meant he was fantastically older than me. These days, one year older? That's my bff's age, which is basically my age. I had a few moments over that.
We saw a few of Tay's old classmates, and that was good.
I didn't wind up doing very many touristy things because I needed sleep desperately. I hadn't brought any of my own pillows with me, which made things less comfortable for me than they might have been.
I'm safely home. Tay is there for another week. She may go to Burning Moose.