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What is this "energy" you speak of?
Dec. 1st, 2008 12:11 amLowest-key Darkover ever.
Didn't help that we had massive arguments with the offspring on Friday before leaving, nor that our departure was hours late. Nor that we had a thoroughly unproductive adventure Friday night after arriving.
I simply had no energy all weekend, and aside from speaking with and seeing some dear friends, missing speaking to several who were there, and regretting deeply that several others were not there, I did little to speak of at Darkover. No filk. No panels. The Clams concert, and a couple of songs of a Maugorn concert. Bought M a holiday gift, and a few books, and sundry other things.
The drive home was a test of the new GPS, which both passed and failed. Passed because it eventually got a route to I-78 from I-83, rather than trying to reroute to I-95. Failed because that route led over hill and dale (though not Dale :-) and on some nasty dark single-lane roads purporting to be highways. Ultimately the fault was mine, for not realizing that it was set to find the shortest route; I need to establish some waypoints for the routes I want to follow, and set those up to force the route to be more comfortable.
On the other hand, we did stop at a diner with The Best chocolate cake I have had in twenty or more years. It's basically a not-quite brownie in several layers, interspersed with good ganache and iced properly. Hot tea, not sweetened, proved the perfect counterpoint (for a non-coffee-drinker) and we have a slice waiting to be devoured.
Traffic happened at the Holland Tunnel; traffic reports indicated that all the other Hudson entries were just as bad, so no trying to reroute.
Home again; time to calloopse and try to restart for a workweek tomorrow.
Hope your weekends were fun and safe, too.
*thud*
Didn't help that we had massive arguments with the offspring on Friday before leaving, nor that our departure was hours late. Nor that we had a thoroughly unproductive adventure Friday night after arriving.
I simply had no energy all weekend, and aside from speaking with and seeing some dear friends, missing speaking to several who were there, and regretting deeply that several others were not there, I did little to speak of at Darkover. No filk. No panels. The Clams concert, and a couple of songs of a Maugorn concert. Bought M a holiday gift, and a few books, and sundry other things.
The drive home was a test of the new GPS, which both passed and failed. Passed because it eventually got a route to I-78 from I-83, rather than trying to reroute to I-95. Failed because that route led over hill and dale (though not Dale :-) and on some nasty dark single-lane roads purporting to be highways. Ultimately the fault was mine, for not realizing that it was set to find the shortest route; I need to establish some waypoints for the routes I want to follow, and set those up to force the route to be more comfortable.
On the other hand, we did stop at a diner with The Best chocolate cake I have had in twenty or more years. It's basically a not-quite brownie in several layers, interspersed with good ganache and iced properly. Hot tea, not sweetened, proved the perfect counterpoint (for a non-coffee-drinker) and we have a slice waiting to be devoured.
Traffic happened at the Holland Tunnel; traffic reports indicated that all the other Hudson entries were just as bad, so no trying to reroute.
Home again; time to calloopse and try to restart for a workweek tomorrow.
Hope your weekends were fun and safe, too.
*thud*
