A little ketchup

I'm in Portland, about to get back in the van to drive to Kansas City, thence to the airport and home for a week. The last show of the great traveling Summer roadshow is the following weekend in KC; after that it's one-day drives.

This last weekend has been great fun--celebrated the 50th birthday year and 20th anniversary of dear friends kateyule and davidlevine, met a lot of neat people and saw a lot of old friends. I didn't do half the things I thought I would, but I did do some unexpected things (glow-in-the-dark pirate-themed mini-golf)(which just used a week's supply of hyphens). I finally got to meet lj friend calendula_witch and her sweetie markferrari, as well as e_bourne and markbourne. I didn't have much of a chance to visit with the latter, but had a delightful and funny conversation with calendula_witch and markferrari.

My finger still hurts. I looked it up, and the initial injury was on July 13. WTF, body? I'll be definitely going to the doctor when I get home.

I stayed in Portland today because I thought it would give me a chance to do some last minute things and see a few people I'd missed. Alas, none of that happened. Queries went unanswered, phone calls weren't returned, and here I sit at the computer thinking I should have just left this morning after all. Well, I'll go in the morning and have two very long days of driving. On Thursday evening I'll be home. That will be nice.