Coming Up Stuff

This is just meant to be a sort of quick update on what's been up:

On the 19th this month, Kevin and I are flying out to Washington D.C. where we will visit Patrick and Kim Connally ( achangeofwashingtons.blogspot.com ) and hang out. We are pretty excited, since we'll be able to stay for five days and catch up with that side of the family, as well as probably hit a couple museums or something. It's a little bit of a surprise trip, and since Kevin's birthday is the 23rd we're calling it his birthday present. We're both really looking forward to it.

My class is coming up; I got kind of sent around the block on trying to line up the signature I needed to get it on the time schedule, but I think my thesis advisor will be able to do it this weekend, so I'm pretty excited about that too.

Last night, we visited the Seattle Peak Oil Awareness meeting in Phinney Ridge, which was super fascinating. There was a pretty wide range of attendees, and we watched two presentations- one on radio, and one on food preservation. The leader of the group, Dave, turned out to be the owner of an emissions-free sail trade company. He has four vessels that cruise the Sound, picking up and marketing produce from all around. They go up to the Straights, around Kitsap Penninsula, and all around Seattle for sure. I don't recall him mentioning going south at all, but it's quite possible. Of course, Kevin talked to him about the company- potentially we'll be able to learn about that through him, which is fabulous since Kevin's been thinking about how to apply his trade to our transition mission the whole time.

I started another sock. It's coming along lovely, and should be done by the end of this week. Kevin brought home one of the table benches he made a few days ago, and hopefully will have time to finish the second one next week.

That's the bulk of it. Thanks for staying tuned; more when things start stopping.