Packing

My big yearly trip to NCECA happens on Tuesday. Today is a bit more of the getting ready to go. Turning on the water under the house and to the back yard so that Laura can make paper and water the yard while I'm off to Portland. A bit of cooking and cleaning and all that jazz. Got to do some dishes and some laundry to get my limited amount of clothing together for a bag. I most often travel with the barest of things in my kit. My extravagance this time will be a goodly number of clean socks. Portland weather during my trip promises to be "highs in the 40's and 50's and rain or showers every day but one". So I'm thinking that clean dry socks will be invaluable. As will a change of shoes.

There are three of we friends going to the clay conference. Myself and Marian and Sharon. Oddly enough we're having Sharon take the single room, she is a beastly room mate, snores and has insomnia. Not the nice quiet kind of insomnia either, but the type that requires her to bang about the room and raise a ruckus ensuring that no one else sleeps either. We'll have a great time! Running thru the vendor booths, collecting cheap souviners, finding the cool yet funky shopping district, eating out and giving each other shit all the live long day. Should be a good time, as long as those two don't go all mental on me.

I'll get back on Sunday. We got lucky and found a travel deal that lets us fly out of the local airport rather than take a 3 to 5 hour drive to the nearest large one.

Now I just have to decide what to take. Certainly all the fun electronic gadgets that earned me a similar nickname for it. My sweet LoLo calls me "gadget guy" and I end up having to admit that it fits. In as much as a caveman can master the internet and fix computers with a hammer I suppose I'm the gadget guy. Then the usuals, a couple/three changes of clothing and a spare daypack with hydropack. :) Gotta be prepared you know.

Oh, and definately a raincoat!