All our bags are packed …

So this evening we head out West for the big family camp-out thang, known colloquially (and sometimes confusingly for the uninitiated) as “KOA” (Kleerup Organized Activity). I’m looking forward to it. Blogging will, perforce, be spotty, due to cell phone range issues — though the Flickr-moblogging stuff seems to be working pretty reliably at the moment, so you should get some pictures whenever we’re back in mobile range.

I have preloaded quotes for WIST for the next few weekdays, though.

It’s been a weird, off week at work — a lot of big meetings (another one this morning), a huge assignment I finally finished, grenade-falling-upon, saying good-bye to a long-time colleague and friend back at the old office, finally getting my office arranged the way I want it …

… just in time to be told I’m going to be moving down the hall four or five doors in a couple of weeks. It’s actually a positive move — better furniture, somewhat better location (though still an interior office) — and I’d been told it would be coming, but that didn’t stop me from unpacking everything (since the last “temporary” move lasted six months and would still be going on if I hadn’t shifted downtown).

The collegial farewell was noteworthy as well because (a) I got to successfully test my old “park the car at the Broadway Park-n-Ride and just take the LTR up from there” technique, and (b) I got to finally eat at the Keg by the Colorado Mills, which sat in a plywood-and-tarpaper state for over a year during construction. Good beer, fair nachos.

Weird week at home, too. Katherine’s been doing Vacation Bible School down at church, which means she’s been going later and coming back mid-day than with her normal summer program. That’s meant my working from home a couple of days, including today — both of which days I ended up with badly timed phonecons scheduled day-of. Ugh.

And it’s a lead-in to more off-kilter times. We get down from KOA on Monday afternoon as usual. Tuesday I’m going into the office in California (which, for reasons I can’t say anything about at the moment, turns out to be fortuitous timing), then Wednesday, I come home …

… and Margie and Katherine head off to the wilds of Upstate Wisconsin to do some family bits with Margie’s Aunt Lenora, leaving me as a bachelor until the following Tuesday. Which on the one hand means I could have vast, uninterrupted swaths of time to do all sorts of fascinating projects like redesigning this blog, or catching up on our digital photo albums, or [fill in from long list I’ve already been compiling]. Or … it could mean I simply mope around for a week, lost and depressed, drinking beer and watching TV and playing City of Heroes and staying up too late and missing Margie and Katherine.

We shall see.