Easy Day Monday
Dec. 12th, 2005 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringMonday's always pretty easy for me. A day more or less to myself to do the things I want to do after being family man over the weekend. Today I read some of Q is for Quarry, watched an episode of West Wing at lunch and in the early morning I listed to JimOnTheRadio and his Shropshire Radio Rock Show. Always fun with the British crew hanging out on Chit-Chat, all of us listening to the same songs and patter natter.
Kerri got up towards the end of the show and when JimOn finished and Genevieeve began with her folk songs, she looked up from breakfast and exclaimed over the lovely music. Not really my cup of tea, but I shared this with Genevieeve and kept on listening. She had a number of competitions, where you had to answer a fairly arcane bit of trivia. The first one was "Name the degree course where the group members of Crosscurrent met." Easy google, once I worked out the name of the group - I thought it was Cross-currents at first - "Cross Current met at Newcastle upon Tyne Uni, where they met in that establishment's first folk and traditional music degree course."
As it happened, my correct answer was the first pulled out of the white plastic jug, and announced with suitable fanfare - a winner in Canberra, Australia. The next prize went to a BookCrosser in Finland, also listening in and hanging out on Chit-Chat. Not too sure who got the third prize, because I went and had a nap.
After lunch, chatting with Littlemave and Bookczuk simultaneously. I usually get muddled when doing something like this, but I managed to keep them straight. Poor Bookczuk was having ISP problems - terribly frustrating when that happens. Curtain installers were supposed to be coming between 12 and 2, and I'd tidied up the house and swept the floors and mived furniture around to give them time to work, and a few minutes before two they rang up and postponed. Hmmmmph.
Looked at my itinerary for April later on. Checked out some bits and pieces for the French leg of my trip. Surprised to learn that Paris to Bayeux by rail only takes a couple of hours. Pretty sure that I will skip New York and spend an extra day in Toronto. The overheads of shuttle to and from the airport, checking in, checking out will take up a fair chunk of a single night, and there isn't time for two. I might spend that same day in Toronto looking around art galleries. And I can save a bit of money by staying in the Toronto hostel for three nights for $CDN33 a night including breakfast, cheaper than a single night at the Marriott.
I shall save New York and Chicago for the October trip. Very likely include Seattle on the way to San Francisco. Or maybe after. I'm interested in getting as many long flights in as possible so as to maximise the mileage and status points. One strategy I've seen discussed is to fly in to the "wrong" side of a continent, travel backwards and then fly out from the far side. In my case, that would be something like London-LAX, then SFO, Seattle, Toronto, New York, Charlotte, New York-Hawaii.
Still got a way to go to lick this into shape.
Kerri got up towards the end of the show and when JimOn finished and Genevieeve began with her folk songs, she looked up from breakfast and exclaimed over the lovely music. Not really my cup of tea, but I shared this with Genevieeve and kept on listening. She had a number of competitions, where you had to answer a fairly arcane bit of trivia. The first one was "Name the degree course where the group members of Crosscurrent met." Easy google, once I worked out the name of the group - I thought it was Cross-currents at first - "Cross Current met at Newcastle upon Tyne Uni, where they met in that establishment's first folk and traditional music degree course."
As it happened, my correct answer was the first pulled out of the white plastic jug, and announced with suitable fanfare - a winner in Canberra, Australia. The next prize went to a BookCrosser in Finland, also listening in and hanging out on Chit-Chat. Not too sure who got the third prize, because I went and had a nap.
After lunch, chatting with Littlemave and Bookczuk simultaneously. I usually get muddled when doing something like this, but I managed to keep them straight. Poor Bookczuk was having ISP problems - terribly frustrating when that happens. Curtain installers were supposed to be coming between 12 and 2, and I'd tidied up the house and swept the floors and mived furniture around to give them time to work, and a few minutes before two they rang up and postponed. Hmmmmph.
Looked at my itinerary for April later on. Checked out some bits and pieces for the French leg of my trip. Surprised to learn that Paris to Bayeux by rail only takes a couple of hours. Pretty sure that I will skip New York and spend an extra day in Toronto. The overheads of shuttle to and from the airport, checking in, checking out will take up a fair chunk of a single night, and there isn't time for two. I might spend that same day in Toronto looking around art galleries. And I can save a bit of money by staying in the Toronto hostel for three nights for $CDN33 a night including breakfast, cheaper than a single night at the Marriott.
I shall save New York and Chicago for the October trip. Very likely include Seattle on the way to San Francisco. Or maybe after. I'm interested in getting as many long flights in as possible so as to maximise the mileage and status points. One strategy I've seen discussed is to fly in to the "wrong" side of a continent, travel backwards and then fly out from the far side. In my case, that would be something like London-LAX, then SFO, Seattle, Toronto, New York, Charlotte, New York-Hawaii.
Still got a way to go to lick this into shape.
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