I saw my breath!
Apr. 1st, 2005 05:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringWinter's on the way. I saw my breath for the first time yesterday, and here at 0520 in the morning it's decidely chilly. Almost enough to drive me back to bed. It'll be trackie-daks and bedsox when I get back. Just checked the weather forecast for London. The day before I arrive looks fine, the day I arrive is patchy and my first full day is April showers.
Temps are coolish. Nothing like Washington - I'll leave my leather jacket behind, but I'll bring a beanie, light jacket and my Barbour jumper. A cotton skivvy for the plane, looks awful but is very comfy and has an outside pocket for my glasses. In fact I look a total dag on a long flight. I dress for comfort, not style. Most of the London flight will be at night, as will the flight back across the Pacific.
Fort Worth weather looks very pleasant, insofar as I can work out this ridiculous Fahrenheit scale. Celsius makes so much more sense: 0 is freezing, 100 is boiling.
Visited Aldi yesterday - got my 512Mb memory card for the camera. Poked my nose into the thrift shop. Three Time-Life books in a series I'm trying to complete ($3.50 each, I'd feel a right goose if I'd bought them through the book a month sub at thirty or forty each). A five volume reprint set of Traveller - an old SF game I used to play way back.
Temps are coolish. Nothing like Washington - I'll leave my leather jacket behind, but I'll bring a beanie, light jacket and my Barbour jumper. A cotton skivvy for the plane, looks awful but is very comfy and has an outside pocket for my glasses. In fact I look a total dag on a long flight. I dress for comfort, not style. Most of the London flight will be at night, as will the flight back across the Pacific.
Fort Worth weather looks very pleasant, insofar as I can work out this ridiculous Fahrenheit scale. Celsius makes so much more sense: 0 is freezing, 100 is boiling.
Visited Aldi yesterday - got my 512Mb memory card for the camera. Poked my nose into the thrift shop. Three Time-Life books in a series I'm trying to complete ($3.50 each, I'd feel a right goose if I'd bought them through the book a month sub at thirty or forty each). A five volume reprint set of Traveller - an old SF game I used to play way back.
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Date: 2005-04-01 01:26 am (UTC)When you said you got new glasses, you really meant it! And a whole new look!
I'm having huge fits of jealousy thinking of your trip. The idea of you meeting some of my other absolute favorite folks is enough to make me go batty (well...battier!)
Heather has promised to give you a big hug for me.
Heather hugs
Date: 2005-04-01 02:15 am (UTC)But Heather's a good substitute. I guess she isn't too upset at her bookshelf being hijacked for hijinks.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2480423
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2480419
I'm getting a bit nervous at the impending trip. Will I have enough time to do everything I want? Enough money? Enough books?
But I guess I can't go too far wrong by being in the company of Bookcrossers.
Re: Heather hugs
Date: 2005-04-01 03:04 am (UTC)http://www.bookcrossing.com/articles/1683
And she may be a hug stand-in, but I get a rain check!!!!
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Date: 2005-04-02 11:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-02 11:30 pm (UTC)I have a number of projects that will bring me back, all I need is money.
Pete, only a sleep away