It's turtles all the way down.

If it had even one more turtle, it'd be on my Xmas list. As it is, I know every time I looked at it or wore it, I'd think, "But it really should be turtles all of the way down, not just one turtle." Not that I am mocking anyone's world turtle.

Yep, I was pretty certain that I wouldn't be the marrying type, and yet, here I am.

I never had any doubts that Dan would get married again.

I was VERY SURPRISED that I did!

t whine

It's Friday. And I have big task I need to do, but don't want to. I need to continue to pack up the old workshop in lil boxes, so we can move it to the new workshop on the 25th. But my office is on the 2nd floor, and sees blue sky, puffy white clouds, sunlight, and fresh air. Old workshop is down in the basement, dark, cut off from the world. Blargh. Do I need to do it? Yes. Do I want to? No. Summers are great and all, the campus is quiet with out the students. But it sucks when you have nobody to delegate the ugg tasks that you don't want to do.

t /whine

I remember telling myself when I was about 14 that I would never marry nor have children. So far, I was right.

(To be clear, I've never been sad about it. Although if the "right" person appeared in my life, I might marry.)

The "love at first sight" thing happened to me when I met my BFF. We were 16, at a fan con in Nashville. Our eyes met, angels sang, bluebirds tied ribbons in our hair. She remembers what actually happened, all I remember is seeing her. We lost touch for many years in adulthood, and when we found each other again, it was like we'd never been apart. If either of us had been a guy, we would gotten married when we turned 18 and our lives would almost certainly have been much better. Except I'd probably have kids now because she wanted them. But the kids would have been better off (presuming she got the same ones as she did in this life) because they would have had a stable loving family and a father who wasn't a fucking asshole. I'm presuming I was the one who got to be a guy, because I'd rather and she wouldn't, but either way, stable loving family with sane parents.

See how my mind works? Wasn't that fun? I need a drink or something.

Omnis, sorry to hear that you can't enjoy the nice weather. Good luck moving all the gear. I'm currently en-route to JFK, where I change planes and have another flight of about 8 hours to make it to Barcelona. It should be a busy two weeks on the NCL Epic, but it should also be a lot of fun, I enjoy working with the Nickelodeon folks.

When I was in college, I was convinced I'd be in a serious relationship by my junior or senior year, and that we'd get married after graduation.

Heh.

I was sure I'd be married by 22. But the last time I thought about it with husbands in the picture, I was 18. We were planning to run off together and find TKD black belts and marry them and tour the country fighting. Ah, crazy kids.

Later on it was assumed I would have lots of kids, father unimportant. His main job was to only diverge from my genetic template in order to make the kids brighter, stronger, better soldiers. He couldn't make them not look like me. And he had to make them taller.

I actually went looking, and discarded many almost-theres.

And then I became me.

I've skipped to the end.

Dad got here yesterday and we went to get Thai food. The Thia House was named the Best Thai place in New England in 2009 by Yankee Magazine and it was really good.

Then today we went to the Shelburne Museum, which I knew very little about it. It's big. Your admission is good for 2 days and it will probably take 2 days to see everything. Currently they have several temporary exhibits - one of Vermont antique firearms, 1 of Papercraft in 3D which is spread over 2 buildings and is truly amazing, including altered books, and clothing exhibit in High Style 1690-2011. We didn't get to that one.

Plus their regular, permanent collections include Impressionists - Manet, Monet, Dega, Cassett. Plus hand carved furniture by Tiffany. There's a steamboat, a train depot, train engine, train cars. All kinds of houses and buildings. It's truly amazing. A general store completely stocked. Apothecary, barber shop. I don't know how many straight razors they have on display but it's a lot.

It's just amazing. This is the museum story of how it came to be [link]

It's incredible.

askye, it looks like it's worth visiting Vermont just to see that!