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Quite a long weekend. A pretty good one in a lot of ways, but long nevertheless.

Thursday, [livejournal.com profile] raininva left for DragonCon to do some contracting for WizKids. Thursday night, after my afternoon nap, I yanked half of my office out into the living room for sorting and re-arrangement. I ended up with a huge plastic storage tub full of gaming stuff that I don't want to get rid of, but I don't have room for in the office. That went to the storage along with another tub of loose items; several empty boxes that were just wasting cubic went to the trash, along with two bags full of stuff that just wasn't doing anyone any good.

Friday, I went straight from work to South Carolina to see Jo and Erin. I don't think I was as much fun to be with as I'd have liked to be... the drive really took more out of me than I'd thought it would - I think I didn't sleep well Thursday night (empty bed and all). I-77 had one of those "everyone slows to 5 mph for an hour" spots, and there didn't seem to be any reason for it - no accident, no flooded road, nothing I could find.

Saturday, I headed back. Jo and Kirk and Erin's household contains seven kids, and I think that the two ladies would have gladly stowed away in my trunk had they the chance. There was another "everyone slows to 5 mph for an hour for no visible reason" spot on I-77, and two torrential downpours to navigate through. Saturday afternoon consisted of another nap, and the evening was spent on the computer: archiving files to free hard drive space, hooking up a Lexmark printer-scanner, and playing "A Mess of Trouble" and "No One Lives Forever".

Sunday, [livejournal.com profile] shrewlet helped me move the tubs to storage, then I headed up to her place for dinner. Saw the new "Duck Dodgers" cartoon on Cartoon Network - pretty funny stuff, in fact; I noticed that one of the writers is one of the Batman Animated writers.

Monday, I didn't feel too well at all. I slumped on the sofa for some time watching a few episodes of "American Chopper" and hoping to feel better, but It didn't help much. I went by my mom's for a bit, then went home and tried to pick up the place a little for Rain's return. I didn't accomplish what I was shooting for there either.

Today, Rain will be home when I get home - and I'm really glad to know that. I missed her terribly!! Welcome home, sweetie!

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Date: 2003-09-02 09:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] polar-bear-sama.livejournal.com
*pokepokes* And make sure you pokepoke Rain to make sure she updates her LJ with Conreport, whichever LJ she decides to use.
*pokepokes* You could use to update more, too. My friends list tends to sit waaaaay too idle.
*pokepokes*

PB

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Date: 2003-09-02 09:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mikailborg.livejournal.com
I agree completely with you - a month or so ago, I tried to do "once-a-day" updating and couldn't quite manage it. I need to work on that some more!

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Date: 2003-09-02 01:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yubbie.livejournal.com
The I-77 spot is probably an example of what traffic engineers refer to as highway memory, iirc. Basically, so long as a highway has consistent traffic running through it, an event that causes a bottleneck will develop a persistent spot. So, someone has a flat, and traffic slow to go around them. They fix things and move on. But the road has developed this slow spot where traffic slows to a crawl because the traffic that slowed to a crawl developed the spot, which causes the spot to develop.

It's a civil engineers version of a temporal paradox. A slow spot causes a slow spot.

It only goes away when the traffic level drops low enough that there's no cars there anymore to participate in the memory, and then the road "forgets".

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