Back in hotel space, with choppy Internet. Not that base has been trouble free. I'm free to speculate that DSL is over subscribed and random dropping is like a rolling brown out they don't tell us about. How are customers to know?
You would need whistleblowers, and last I checked Congress was more interested in whistleblowers sitting on whatever. At the UN, warehouses pile up to the rafters with earnest reports of unfairness.
At least the heat's on. Base is not arctic. Portland is 45th parallel or thereabouts and we're creeping around the annalemma.
I'm in no way a full timer at this conference though. I have a busy day, and choppy Internet only puts me further behind.
Good meeting at AFSC tonight. Tony Noble joined us. Afterwards I got more caught up on what's rollicking in this town. Somewhat embarrassing how much I don't know.
Shirley Q. Liquor was offending people all over the country and The Eagle had booked him. Local activists went berzerk (paraphrase), but when the Q-Center sought to use that opportunity to broker a Racism discussion, that set off inter-tribal jealousies in other dimensions. Events were being canceled faster than they could be defined.
The car is on Apachecon and AFSC duty both. That makes it sound like I pile up receipts for the IRS, and I should probably. But I'm not advertising to the public as a licensed chauffeur (which I'm not) and don't really see the point. Anyway, I've got my taxes filed for this year already, and expect a refund (from Feds, not the state).
I've got a fresh Buddha tankha hanging in the Buddha Room (also Bob's).
We talked about QVS some (at the AFSC post-meeting), reminding me of conversations with Robert Cooper recently. He knew of this house in North Carolina.
Eddy reminded me my next flight was on a different day than I'd thought. Scary to be that wrong. I did that in DC and got lucky.
Carol waded deep into the logistics of making it happen for her, and I was encouraging. Using an oxygenator on plane trips is still somewhat state of the art. These machines are somewhat new. I praised her for helping break new ground, with Delta, with other airlines.
Not in the cards in this shuffle though. She can relax and recover more instead. Whether that trip insurance she purchased pans out is another question. More unfairness.
:: new AFSC poster ::
