Day 3.

Oct. 16th, 2006 11:38 pm
katster: (Default)
It's getting close to bedtime here, and the three of us are all curled up here, Zoe sprawled across my sleeping bag in front, DJ tucked between my knees behind me. So I just reached over carefully and started gently petting DJ, and she didn't jump off the bed and run away as she's done so many times before when I'd reach my hand to her. Instead, she let me pet, and scratch her ears, and pet under her chin, and licked my hand clean.

I think we're getting somewhere. :)

That said, today was fun. I met up with [livejournal.com profile] whytraven, and after going the wrong way on 580, we ended up on 680, and went around to 24. The scenic route, I suppose. :) Then we ended up eating Thai food and wandering around the campus hitting up as many historical landmarks as possible. I know the place well because I've spent several years there, and I've picked up a thing or two about workings around the campus, and thus I was able to provide informed chatter about the different buildings. The best part of the trip, though, was the ride up to the top of the Campanile, a trip that is worth the two bucks if you're ever in the area. We hung around for fifteen minutes so that [livejournal.com profile] whytraven could hear the hourly bong. :) Also, we snarfed Room 307 Gilman Hall, which [livejournal.com profile] whytraven says is the first room she's ever snarfed.

(In that room, Professor Glenn Seaborg synthesized plutonium for the first time. To this day, it's still a working lab. I got to meet Professor Seaborg about 52 or 53 years after the event that would change the world, after he had won his Nobel Prize and became the first living man to have an element named after him (106, which is Seaborgium.) He came to talk to my History of Cal DeCal class, and I ran his slide projector for him. Later, I shook his hand, and somewhere in my piles, I may still have his signature. Unfortunately, Professor Seaborg passed away a few years ago, and the Berkeley campus is less without the man whose name was an anagram for 'Go Bears.")

Then we came back here, and Zoe wouldn't leave [livejournal.com profile] whytraven alone, and after she'd headed on her way, I wandered into the living room and watched Eight Men Out, which is about the 1919 Black Sox. (They're the ones that threw the Series.) It wasn't a bad movie. And if Christopher Lloyd didn't have a distinct way of speaking, I'd have sworn he wasn't in the movie.

Tomorrow is a down day. Other than maybe running to the grocery store, there's not much to do, and so I'll probably do a bit of studying and other work.

I really need to get [livejournal.com profile] spitgirl and [livejournal.com profile] luns together long enough to figure out when we're all going to have dinner. I still have Thursday tentatively marked, but I don't know if that's going to hold.

Other than that, we're all fine and happy. And while I should get under the covers, I don't want to disturb two resting dogs. Plus, I still have the light on. :(

*frowns*

Mar. 27th, 2006 02:00 am
katster: (bludice)
I went on a wild snarfari this weekend. At my best count, I have at least 20 markers to enter. I currently have 26 snarfs in my 2006 challenge.

So now I get to have the debate on whether I ask to have my limit increased from 50 to 100 for the challenge and then possibly fail to make it, or declare victory early and coast through the rest of the year.

Decisions, decisions. ;)

(If this doesn't make any sense to you at all, I suggest you go over to Markeroni and check it out. People look at me weird when I say I like to take pictures of historical markers, but... I think it's a perfectly normal hobby. Anyway, stop by, poke around, enjoy yourself...and if you're curious about where I've specifically been, this appears to link right to it. Or at least the last few I've done anyway. Sad, 'cause there's some really good ones in my earlier stuff, which just means you should get an account and maybe even snarf a few markers yourself. Eh? EH!) :)

I have more to say about this weekend, but the hour is late, I've been driving around all day, I still smell of hot brakes, and I have homework I need to do tomorrow. So more forthcoming. Please remind me.
katster: (chillin)
Well, flip.

My picture from earlier seems to be missing. And my phone is out in the car.

Anyway, I'm hanging out in a Taco Bell in Cordelia, hanging off the free wifi of a nearby hotel, about ready to begin the last piece of the trip back to Sactown, and I just want to say...

DUDE! WHAT A WEEKEND!

More when I get home and can tell you about markersnarfing and hanging with [livejournal.com profile] chaoswolf and the time my brakes nearly burnt out...
katster: (avatar)
I have permission from my father to drive to San Jose on Saturday for a Markeroni gathering/E Clampus Vitus historical plaque dedication. This makes me go w00t. I don't know if I'll be able to do other things, it's looking more and more like this is a day trip as opposed to an all weekend thing, which is too bad, because there's folks I'd love to catch up with. (*waves to [livejournal.com profile] chaoswolf among others*) Of course, if my dad had just said yes or no to the question of borrowing the car last weekend, I might have had the ability to ask folks I know if they had crash space I could borrow for the night. But now that's it's Thursday night (technically Friday morning), there's not really much of a chance of achieving proper crash space now (and I'd feel real awkward asking), so day trip it is.

But other than that, it should be a fun weekend.

BTW, this week, I have decided I shall be an accountant. This is subject to change. (Slowly working on gaining what my business cards once said, that of being a 'geek of all trades'.) ;)

Tomorrow, I shall wash clothes and clean my room a bit more and return an overdue library book to the library and take mom shopping and find my logbook (since I plan to go snarfing on Saturday as I drive towards San Jose). Saturday, I'm debating wearing my loudest tie-dye T-shirt (of course, it's supposed to be raining, so that ruins a lot of the fun).

Other than that, what's new with y'all, LJ world?
katster: (sacramento)
I did a bit of snarfing today, since I got a shiny new logbook in the mail. This is the logbook open to a couple of today's snarfs (and my outrageously poor handwriting -- it's a good thing I've gotten fairly adept at deciphering my own handwriting)

I still have to get this up onto Markeroni, but I discovered the marker for California State Registered Historical Landmark #967, the California Almond Growers Exchange, here in Sacramento, is beyond the security perimeter of the Blue Diamond Almond Factory at the same location.

So I talked to the security guards, and they said, "Normally, we like guests to the property to be escorted, but since you're just getting a picture of the plaque, and it's right there, go ahead." And they handed me the visitor's pass now attached in my logbook.

And that's the most interesting thing that's happened to me today. And now I have a cool place to put the visitor's pass I had to have to go see a historical marker. The logbook *rules*.
katster: (Default)
write write write right
gotta get the writing right

anyway, more fun at [livejournal.com profile] katsterwrites, and I know I'm getting a bit intense when I'm repulsed by what I'm writing. But I'll leave it for my fan club to decide.

creative writing is going well.

I still don't have a clue what I'm going to do for my photoshop project and it's due tomorrow.

need to join the Markeroni group on LJ.

Other than that, I should probably go to bed soon.

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