{"id":13195,"date":"2008-06-26T06:50:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/06\/26\/all-our-bags-are-packed-2.html"},"modified":"2008-06-26T06:50:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T13:50:43","slug":"all_our_bags_are_packed_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/26\/all_our_bags_are_packed_2.html","title":{"rendered":"All our bags are packed &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this evening we head out West for the big family camp-out thang, known colloquially (and sometimes confusingly for the uninitiated) as &#8220;KOA&#8221; (Kleerup Organized Activity). I&#8217;m looking forward to it. Blogging will, perforce, be spotty, due to cell phone range issues &#8212; though the Flickr-moblogging stuff seems to be working pretty reliably at the moment, so you should get some pictures whenever we&#8217;re back in mobile range.<\/p>\n<p>I have preloaded quotes for <a href=\"http:\/\/wist.info\" target=\"_blank\">WIST<\/a> for the next few weekdays, though.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a weird, off week at work &#8212; 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 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; just in time to be told I&#8217;m going to be moving down the hall four or five doors in a couple of weeks. It&#8217;s actually a positive move &#8212; better furniture, somewhat better location (though still an interior office) &#8212; and I&#8217;d been told it would be coming, but that didn&#8217;t stop me from unpacking everything (since the last &#8220;temporary&#8221; move lasted six months and would still be going on if I hadn&#8217;t shifted downtown).<\/p>\n<p>The collegial farewell was noteworthy as well because (a) I got to successfully test my old &#8220;park the car at the Broadway Park-n-Ride and just take the LTR up from there&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Weird week at home, too. Katherine&#8217;s been doing Vacation Bible School down at church, which means she&#8217;s been going later and coming back mid-day than with her normal summer program. That&#8217;s meant my working from home a couple of days, including today &#8212; both of which days I ended up with badly timed phonecons scheduled day-of. Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s a lead-in to more off-kilter times. We get down from KOA on Monday afternoon as usual. Tuesday I&#8217;m going into the office in California (which, for reasons I can&#8217;t say anything about at the moment, turns out to be fortuitous timing), then Wednesday, I come home &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and Margie and Katherine head off to the wilds of Upstate Wisconsin to do some family bits with Margie&#8217;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&#8217;ve already been compiling]. Or &#8230; 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.<\/p>\n<p>We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this evening we head out West for the big family camp-out thang, known colloquially (and sometimes confusingly for the uninitiated) as &#8220;KOA&#8221; (Kleerup Organized Activity). 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