Status report

[mrissa]

I am baking cinnamon rolls so that I can just heat one in the microwave tomorrow morning instead of actually having to bake them. Hypoglycemia is not all sunshine and roses, my dears. Oh, wait: I believe it's entirely devoid of both sunshine and roses. Well, crud. (I would like to go out for breakfast with people more often. But it would probably be my second meal of the day, unless someone is going to show up at 6:00 here, which isn't likely and we don't expect it.) Still, cinnamon rolls, 30 seconds of nuking, hurrah.

markgritter's flight was delayed to the point where he had to stay an extra night in the scenic Bay Area. Where he has spent the last week. We just want him home. We are trying to be grown-ups about this. What's one more night? (Answer: one more night is one more night.)

One of our family members has had a very up-and-down week, with a type and level of concern that makes us grateful he's still around to have ups and downs at all tonight. We're still waiting for more news on that front and hoping for it to be good.

The book is still a very nice good book, and Chapter 7 arrived more or less fully formed. Short, but fully formed. (Those of you who think this means I have chapters 1-6 written have not been around here long, or else were not paying attention.) One of the weird things about this book is that I have the urge to write the beginnings and endings of the chapters. Usually I am terrible about those bits and only get them looking right on the second draft. (Oh, ho ho. Second. If I'm lucky.)

Tomorrow I will tell you why I quit reading the books I quit reading this week. Tonight I have finished my boysenberry sorbet (SO GOOD) and taken the cinnamon rolls out of the oven, and there is not going to be a Mark at the airport, so I'm going to start to wind down. By which, of course, I mean that I'm going to fall over on my face.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am at piece with my jigsaw brain.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Delays in the Bay Area? I flew home from San Jose yesterday (via Dallas), and everyting was on time. Even the bit of weather at the Texas/Oklahoma border that delayed out take-off from DFT didn't affect our arrival.

B

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad for you. dd_b flew home from San Jose yesterday as well, and it sounds like his stuff was roughly on time as well. But markgritter attempted to fly out of San Francisco, which is usually very different weather. His lj describes what weather he ran into after leaving the airport last night.

He was going through security when I talked to him two minutes ago, so we should get him back today.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

We've had this conversation before. I fly in and out of both SFO and SJC, and have never noticed any real difference in on-time performance. At least, I always thought of the two airports as interchangeable before reading about your experiences, and have explicitly never noticed anything after.

Sometimes I think Mark flies in a parallel universe.

B

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Must be. As I recall, last time we had this conversation, I looked up the delay rate out of SFO and found some figure over 30%. I'm glad it hasn't been a problem for you.

San Francisco and San Jose are certainly not interchangeable in terms of weather otherwise. The word we heard most often when listening to weather reports in the Bay Area when we lived there was "microclimates." (Well, not really. Probably "will" or "be" or "the" or maybe "partially." But "microclimates" was definitely up there.)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

The last time we had this conversation, did I ask why he doesn't fly out of SJC instead of SFO? Flight delays like that would be enough for me to avoid an airport.

B

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There are various things you have to do to schedule flights as a cog in the Sun machine, and if you schedule them too late, sometimes your options are all bad ones.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

aren't sunshine and roses functionally equivalent to shaking and nausea, though?

oh, wait...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If I stay too long in sunshine, I get rosy, shaky, and nauseated.

I don't think that's the same thing, though.