Various other scattered notes....

I have everything I need for the next week, now. I just have to finish packing it.

At the concert last night, the girls ahead of me in line were amusing. We had to stand waiting for the concert lawn to open at 5, and security was checking bags and giving loop-ties that they'd been checked. These two girls, given the little tags and told to put them on the cooler and bag, put them around their wrists. I figured they were just being weird, but no, they were embarrassed when they saw that everyone else had the tags on the bags and protested the guy should have told them. (He did. Trust me, he did. Apparently, they were not listening.) These things taped, so they had a fun time getting them off their wrists and onto the bag and cooler, but they did.

Actually, the guy who handed us the tags was much less officious than the girl who came by later. They would have done better with the girl, who checked every bag (the guy checked their cooler but only asked questions about the other, and he didn't have me open anything) and also tagged them herself. Much more efficiently than I'd made of getting the stupid tags on my stuff, for that matter.

The girls in front of me ended up near me during the concert, also - slightly ahead and to the right, along with their friends who arrived later. One of them, I must point out, wore a pastel lime green top and mid-orange (not bright, not pastel) pants. Successfully. Which was very disturbing.

The fields are beautiful. I'm tempted to go out and photograph them but I'll wait until tomorrow, when I head out anyway. The hay is out, the hay is tall and golden, the hay is cut and piled, the hay is in bales. (I feel sort of bad for a few of the last - it was baled and outdoors when the rains hit late Thursday night. I hope it did not get deeply wet.)

Whee!

Good thing I don't have a precisely-planned departure time tomorrow. I'm still packing. And I should either pay the bills or make sure I leave Scott the information on them (in addition to the household checkbook, which I am leaving). Paying them would be better since that's one of "my" chores and I know what the bills ought to look like.

Still, my checklist of things-to-pack is getting smaller!

I am fretting as my best route out is US 26. This upsets me because outbound, US 26 has a dropoff early on that gives me serious moments of fear - and I'll be right next to it; it's on an up-slope and I won't be passing there unless there's a loaded semi. But the alternate routes add an hour to the trip. I'll deal, it's just making me nervous right now. There's a viewpoint partway up. I stopped there, the last time I tried this route. BAD idea. It is very hard to get any speed up again on that slope, as I recall. But it is a pretty view - if you can handle the height.

I don't know yet if I will be posting after tomorrow, until next Saturday or Sunday. I don't know if I'll have access. I know where the libraries are, if they have access I will. The program machines also might but I am thinking it would be good to try not to hog them, unless there are more than it sounds like from the description. This depends on how many people bring laptops. I could bring my laptop, but I do not want to have to deal with it, honestly.

Now, to find the poetry books I'm supposed to bring, and the ones I want to read so I'm bringing anyway, and of course I am taking CDs. I have two MP3 CDs for the MP3 player but that's on batteries so I'll use regular CDs in the car. I have some mixes, and of course I am now taking all my Suzanne Vega CDs. And a mix CD with a few songs on it, including the three of hers from Retrospective that I did not already have. Thanks to mandydax saying something and prompting me to go look, I have them from iTunes and (on CD #2) they burned okay. (Not iTunes fault - I have an external burner on that computer - my only internal is on the Win98 machine where it won't run. The results are sometimes annoying. Like, completely failing to burn the CD in the case of the first one. Or tracks that skip - but not the important three! - on the second.)

Now, back to packing. I'd like to be in bed by 11, at any rate....