Reminder to self:

[azurelunatic]

Should not attempt to take a 3-day weekend to randomly drive to Texas. Not without Proper Planning, and definitely not without appropriate funding, and appropriate "starting on the first day" sort of thing.

A random trip to Flagstaff, however, sometime after I wake up on Tuesday, might be not at all amiss.

Maybe next week I could try California.

Comments

[cawingcrow.livejournal.com]

Nah, you need to take more time off and be less random about Texas--impulsive could work however. Doing anything over Easter?

http://www.magickal-arts.org/festivals-beltane2006.html

It's halfway between San Antonio and Houston, btw.

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

*starts Looney tug-of-war* No no no, if she comes to Texas, she has to come to Dallas and see iroshi and me!

[cawingcrow.livejournal.com]

You could go camping too?

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

No camping for me. For one I have a toddler, but the main reason is that I'm really not particularly fond of camping. *wrinkles her nose* I can be uncomfortable without going into the middle of nowhere.

[cawingcrow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but this kind of camping has activities for the kiddies, and flush toilets (and port-a-pots when those inevitably stop up) and showers and lots of fun pagans and events and music and shopping and all that. *grin*

[azurelunatic]

So a Faire type event, with the feel of an extended road trip/parking lot?

As long as it doesn't try to pass itself off as Wilderness!

[azurelunatic]

I'm not particularly fond of it either, but I suspect that the reasoning behind this often involves internet connectivity.

[azurelunatic]

Google Maps route to Houston goes through Dallas.

[http://users.livejournal.com/chas_/]

Which makes no sense since it takes longer to get to Dallas than it does San Antonio from Phoenix. San Antonio is also about an hour closer to Houston.

[azurelunatic]

Map programs are weird.

I've decided that I still won't be going anywhere without the computer, Google Earth loaded on said computer (does Google Earth have a roadmap feature? I hope so. I'll have to check it out.) and a car adapter.

[azurelunatic]

The problem is that my "weekend" is generally Monday-Wednesday. And that's going to change with all the new stuff coming in. I'll be lucky to get two days off in a row, from what I hear.

Yikes, when did I become this cynical in the mornings?

Joan says it's not cynical, it's realistic, and whoever was up last night wasn't thinking about the re-organization where we'll all be working five-day weeks.

[cawingcrow.livejournal.com]

Bummer.

[azurelunatic]

The way to get a four-day five-shift week is evidently with double-shift Sundays. That's the route Rev. Not-So-Nice Supervisor is trying.

[azurelunatic]

Is LJ being a pain again? I may have misplaced that comment somewhere.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

Where in California?

[azurelunatic]

LA and outliers are closest.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

I will chime in on the general chorus of "random, no, because you need to make plans to see ME"!

And I will point out that it's usually possible for me to take a vacation day or two on short notice.

[azurelunatic]

Hooray for vacation!

Alas, when I was thinking about this whole "Yay let's drive somewhere" thing, I wasn't considering my new five-day work week. Tuesday, Thursday-Sunday. Bleh.