The long weekend was, for the most part relaxing, particularly Thursday and Friday, where I mostly hung about, doing laundry, watching MST3K, and cooking tasty food. Was offline for the most part, though I did take advantage of a couple of small black friday online deals, but nothing particularly serious. Saturday, we hung out with friends, sampling some adult beverages and watching The Mandalorian. It was nice.

There was just way too much Sunday for my taste, however. I got up early and ran a couple of quick errands, then set off on US 460 W to deliver the eldest back to campus, with a stop half-way to re-record some stuff for Jonah’s project (as I’m essentially the east coast engineer) with one of the localish participants. The first leg wasn’t bad, and included burritos, so I won’t complain. Locating my friend’s house was less easy, as it wasn’t where the GPS said it was, and I had to deal with a couple of narrow, steep, slipperly driveways before hitting the right one. One was particularly steep, slippery, and obscure, such that I bottomed out slightly and knocked the front clip on my car slightly askew – luckily, it mostly snapped right back into place, though I currently have some tape on one of the panel gaps for security. It was, as they say, the last thing I needed.

The recording, however, went well, though the rest of the trip, out and back (in spite of the stop for a pint at Loose Shoe), was colored by the auto bang-up, and I was kind of stressed, and tired, as it worked out being about five hours round trip. And, as we realized the kid left her laptop at home, I need to run back out that way tomorrow.

Yay.

Keep telling myself, only three more work weeks this year…