Day one - ooooooh, busses.
Aug. 5th, 2009 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_dreamsQuarter past four. Napped on bus, just woke up. There is a very small, very determined moth that has made it to the top of the window.
Have forgotten the alarm clock and Balthazar Brim. It's okay.
Mhm, imagine pithy commentary from me, would you? Currently I'm watch the moth march indignantly across the window. I'd disturb other people if I put on a movie--must remember headphones for next time--the bus is shaking too much to drive, and I just realized I don't have ADOM on Perfection. Need to fix this.
It really is quite a lovely moth. Unremarkable, don't get me wrong--beige and dirty-white and coffee-with-cream. But I hadn't realied their wings were quite so *thin* until I saw it against the window. I tok a picture. May take some of the scenery, too; it's unremarkable and green, but I guess it's always handy to have a reference for that.
Hour and a half left on the battery. Going to shut down for a bit.
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Crossed the border five minutes after shutting down Perfection. Read for a bit, arrived in Montreal. Moth flew away when I attempted to rescue it from the inside of the bus. Tried calling Rachel, left a message, and looked around. Blinked a few times, decided I was in a strange city where I didn't have a map, any other phone numbers, or technically a place to sleep, so stashed the better part of my luggage in a bus station locker and then headed out in search of a Starbucks. Called John and found one, got there at 6:00.
Giggled a bit over there being fifteen wireless networks in range. Hilarity quickly faded upon discovering that Bell's hotspot was not one of the ones that worked. Snagged an ile sans file account, though. Sketchy but worked well enough to get online, for about three minutes.
Swore heavily. Tried connecting a bunch of times while working on a Sudoku, then headed out.
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Found *another* Starbucks, and as of 7:30 I have a connection, oh mercy oh glory oh wonder I have a connection. And air-conditioning. It's one of those days when you're not too bad outside and walking, but as soon as you stop to go inside, you start sweating like crazy.
I have Rachel's address and home phone number now, as well as Metro directions. Kind of. Plan to sit here in air-conditioned comfort and make sure that this green line thing goes by Berri-UQAM. Also to recharge Perfection's batteries. Pretty pretty batteries.
I *like* being in downtown Montreal. Conveniently enough, this is pretty much where the convention hotel is, too. And there's an IGA nearby, so I can grab tea stuff tomorrow.
Can anyone recommend a better image host than PhotoBucket? It tends to cause Firefox to freeze and crash if I'm working with it too long, and I find Yahoo enough of a PITA that I am reluctant to go for flickr. May do so if no other options present, though.
Have forgotten the alarm clock and Balthazar Brim. It's okay.
Mhm, imagine pithy commentary from me, would you? Currently I'm watch the moth march indignantly across the window. I'd disturb other people if I put on a movie--must remember headphones for next time--the bus is shaking too much to drive, and I just realized I don't have ADOM on Perfection. Need to fix this.
It really is quite a lovely moth. Unremarkable, don't get me wrong--beige and dirty-white and coffee-with-cream. But I hadn't realied their wings were quite so *thin* until I saw it against the window. I tok a picture. May take some of the scenery, too; it's unremarkable and green, but I guess it's always handy to have a reference for that.
Hour and a half left on the battery. Going to shut down for a bit.
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Crossed the border five minutes after shutting down Perfection. Read for a bit, arrived in Montreal. Moth flew away when I attempted to rescue it from the inside of the bus. Tried calling Rachel, left a message, and looked around. Blinked a few times, decided I was in a strange city where I didn't have a map, any other phone numbers, or technically a place to sleep, so stashed the better part of my luggage in a bus station locker and then headed out in search of a Starbucks. Called John and found one, got there at 6:00.
Giggled a bit over there being fifteen wireless networks in range. Hilarity quickly faded upon discovering that Bell's hotspot was not one of the ones that worked. Snagged an ile sans file account, though. Sketchy but worked well enough to get online, for about three minutes.
Swore heavily. Tried connecting a bunch of times while working on a Sudoku, then headed out.
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Found *another* Starbucks, and as of 7:30 I have a connection, oh mercy oh glory oh wonder I have a connection. And air-conditioning. It's one of those days when you're not too bad outside and walking, but as soon as you stop to go inside, you start sweating like crazy.
I have Rachel's address and home phone number now, as well as Metro directions. Kind of. Plan to sit here in air-conditioned comfort and make sure that this green line thing goes by Berri-UQAM. Also to recharge Perfection's batteries. Pretty pretty batteries.
I *like* being in downtown Montreal. Conveniently enough, this is pretty much where the convention hotel is, too. And there's an IGA nearby, so I can grab tea stuff tomorrow.
Can anyone recommend a better image host than PhotoBucket? It tends to cause Firefox to freeze and crash if I'm working with it too long, and I find Yahoo enough of a PITA that I am reluctant to go for flickr. May do so if no other options present, though.
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Date: 2009-08-06 07:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-06 02:27 pm (UTC)...how the **** am I going to get all my luggage all the way back up to the damn hotel? :P
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Date: 2009-08-06 08:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-06 02:26 pm (UTC)...or, you know, the playtester who had that statue of himself put in the bug-infested temple. ;)