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July 8-10: tiny li'l fanfic convention in Las Vegas (w/Russet). They had a group outing to go see X-Men First Class! (my second viewing, my wife's third). Lots of fun, group lunch at Gorden Biersch, I'm going to push for Bucca di Beppo next year if we go.
13-15: Las Cruces (solo), conducting an HTML training class, Wednesday was Intro, then we split the class Thursday/Friday for Advanced & CSS. It was kind of weird: lots of energy and fun Wednesday/Thursday, VERY quiet Friday. Totally different group dynamic, all the outspoken people were in the Thursday class. Still, it went quite well, and I learned some interesting way to break HTML/CSS....
17-20: Bethesda, MD, my annual NIH visit (sadly again solo). Very nice hotel, the Marriott, but they put me in a handicapped/accessible room initially, perhaps because of NIH paying for it. I certainly don't need those features (for now...), so I asked them to change it out, which they immediately did. Therein was a mistake: the bathroom in the first room was wonderfully large, the second one it's one of those closet bathrooms where you have to close the door in order to get in to the shower/tub.
This trip should be fun, going to have dinner tonight with an old friend whom I've known for almost 30 years now and worked with at two places, but he's now a Washingtonian now and as his parents have passed on, he doesn't come to the Southwest very much any more, tomorrow night having dinner with some new friends whom I've known online for a couple of years but finally met FtF last year. And I'm going to get to either the Smithsonian (Castle) or the Spy Museum for some sight-seeing, so that should be cool!
(but damn, I'm really going to be glad to get home! Haven't spent more than two full days in Cloudcroft in a month and a half!)
13-15: Las Cruces (solo), conducting an HTML training class, Wednesday was Intro, then we split the class Thursday/Friday for Advanced & CSS. It was kind of weird: lots of energy and fun Wednesday/Thursday, VERY quiet Friday. Totally different group dynamic, all the outspoken people were in the Thursday class. Still, it went quite well, and I learned some interesting way to break HTML/CSS....
17-20: Bethesda, MD, my annual NIH visit (sadly again solo). Very nice hotel, the Marriott, but they put me in a handicapped/accessible room initially, perhaps because of NIH paying for it. I certainly don't need those features (for now...), so I asked them to change it out, which they immediately did. Therein was a mistake: the bathroom in the first room was wonderfully large, the second one it's one of those closet bathrooms where you have to close the door in order to get in to the shower/tub.
This trip should be fun, going to have dinner tonight with an old friend whom I've known for almost 30 years now and worked with at two places, but he's now a Washingtonian now and as his parents have passed on, he doesn't come to the Southwest very much any more, tomorrow night having dinner with some new friends whom I've known online for a couple of years but finally met FtF last year. And I'm going to get to either the Smithsonian (Castle) or the Spy Museum for some sight-seeing, so that should be cool!
(but damn, I'm really going to be glad to get home! Haven't spent more than two full days in Cloudcroft in a month and a half!)
