Kevin's musings

Here’s a
picture
that I forgot to upload. It’s kurt and merlin looking very cute on the
couch. They seem to get along pretty darn well.

I’ve been going to a D&D game tuesday nights. Very cool to be back
role playing, I had forgotten how much fun it could be. This
game wrapps up after a few more weeks (many of the people in the
game travel the ren faire circut, so won’t be around after the
faire ends). Perhaps I can find enough people after that to
start up a regular
GURPS game. Anyone in the
denver area interested? Its a ton of fun.

Just had a very nice visit with my friend Roy. He got in thursday
night and we went up to southern sun to meet with some
hackingsociety
folks. Came back and relaxed thursday night. Friday worked along and
then went out for a nice sushi dinner in boulder with
friends. Saturday was faire, where it rained all day long in a
sort of drizzle. It wasn’t too bad, since the rain never came
down that hard, but it was cold and wet. Came back home and had
some nice hot indian food. Sunday we just relaxed around and
then I dropped him off at the airport. A very nice visit.

Weekend recap:

Friday: Just relaxed around the house and got ready for faire. Very
very late friday night the taylors showed up from New
Mexico. Got them settled in and passed out.

Saturday: Got a nice solid 6 hours sleep or so. The Taylors were off
to a wedding up in estes park, so I headed down to the faire
around 8am or so. Got to the booth around 9 or 9:15 or
so. Walking from the car to the booth was pretty difficult. Had
the 3 hounds on leash, my cooler, and a 20lb box of 2000
brochures for the booth. Finally made it up the hill and got the
booth setup. Opening cannon went off and I was the only one
there for a while. It did manage to get better after a
while. Had 6 other people at various times throughout the
day. Managed to scrape up enough people to walk in the parade,
but I had to carry the banner. So far this year I had managed to
avoid the parade. Around 4pm or so a thunderstorm came in,
and boy do I mean thunder. There was a lightning strike in the
festival, and man was it loud. Many of the dogs jumped up, but
Twyla just woke up and then went back to sleep. Got the booth
put away and money gathered and headed home. Got in around 8pm
or so. The taylors got in around 11pm from the wedding reception
and we all passed out.

Sunday: Got up nice and early and out the door around 8:20 or so. Had
a pretty nice drive down to the festival with the taylor family
and hounds all loaded into my suburban. It’s nice having a large
car for such things. Got into the booth around 9:40 or so and
there were already folks there. Got all setup and then wandered
off with the taylors to see the faire. This is the first time
this year I have really had time to go and walk around and see
the booths and do shopping, etc. It was very nice. Had a good
long day of faire, and got home around 8pm again. We ordered
some delivery sushi and thai food then and fed the kids pizza.
Overall a very nice day.

Here are some
pictures of sundays ren faire.

Man, it’s really quite warm out. I am so glad I got A/C installed a
few years ago. I would be melting if I didn’t have A/C. I made
the mistake today of taking the dogs for a walk around 3pm. Kurt
kept pulling toward every tree that had any shade, and twyla
would go over and lay down and not want to get up again. Not
that I blame them any, they are smarter than me. We had a small
cottontail run out from under a car in front of us on the way
back. Twyla and kurt could care less, but merlin wanted to
chase. Here you can (sorta) see
merlin grinning.

In other news the taylors are coming into town tomorrow. It will be
nice to see them all again. I should be out at the faire all
weekend, but man is it going to be rough. We are extemely short
staffed on saturday especially. No time out of the booth for
me. ;(

Another weekend of ren faire goodness. Had a reasonably nice time. We
were kinda short on help at the booth, so I pretty much stayed
up there the entire weekend. I did manage to run out on sunday
and talk to
Kathy, who is always a pleasure to
chat with. Weather on saturday was excellent. It was overcast
and 70′s in the morning, started to get hot, then a thunderstorm
came in and rained for about 10min and cooled things off. Sunday
was just hot. Sunny all day. They said it was 95 degrees at one
point. Here are a few
pictures
from this weekend.

For those of you that haven’t been following the
software suspend 2
saga, things are starting to look pretty good. Nigel is busy trying to
sperate out things and get set to merge with Andrew for the mm
series, then hopefully it goes into the kernel and replaces
pmdisk and swsusp1.

Anyone with a redhat/fedora system is welcome to try my kernel rpms
with the software suspend patch 2 compiled in:
which you can find here.

I almost forgot, some
pictures from sunday at the resort.

Made it home fine on monday, though my sleep schedule was very messed
up. I had to get up about 6:30am to get my brother in law to
drive me to the airport for my 8:45am flight. Got in about 12:30
and got home. Doggies were all fine and happy.

Tuesday was quite busy as well. We discovered that you could get a
nice discount at the beer store in boulder if you could brew
during the day. So we went up there and made an IPA over our
lunch. Then tuesday night was the first session of a D&D game I
have joined. Pretty fun. I missed role playing, and it’s nice to
get back into it again with a good group.

A new day of full on slacking:

Got up super early to meet the family for breakfast at
7:30ish. Another fine all you can eat buffet. I am going to have
to stop eating next week and try and loose some of the many
pounds I have likely gained. After breakfast some folks went off
to play golf. I had proposed a hike, but got no takers so I went
back to plan B… which was going back to my room and going back
to sleep.

Got up and meet up with folks at our home base room and my cousin had
showed up. It was very nice to visit with her for a while. After
that we went down and did more pool lounging and pina colada
drinking. I got into the “cold” pool there (probibly 50-60
degrees… it felt wonderfull). Unfortunately my water proof
watch failed its waterproofness and managed to get water into
the watch. The electronic part totally died. Time for a new
watch it looks like. ;(

A big dinner and then watching fireworks. They had fireworks here for
about an hour. They got kinda dull after about 15minutes because
they were the same 2 or 3 types. The finale was pretty
impressive, but not sure it was worth the wait. On the way down
to the pool from dinner we saw a family of javalina (piggies)
wandering by. About 5 or 6 adults and 2-3 little piglets. They
were gone before I could get a picture since it was already
dark.

Tomorrow I head back home. I have to get up and meet my brother in law
for a ride at 7am. Yuck. Oh well, at least I will get home
around noon so I can have some time to relax there.