Back is what we are
Apr. 13th, 2015 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperance,,,and in other news, Karen and I have come home. I was on Orcas Island! We were both in Seattle! Orcas and bald eagles and meerkats and trolls were seen, actual cats were introduced (CatOfSize and KittenOfThursday, since you ask). Vast engineering projects were visited. (Oh, come: how can a system of ship-sized canal locks not be relevant to Mars? This was totally research.) Foods were eaten, friends were visited, wines consumed. I even did some work, perhaps.
And now we are home, and I am fallen instantly into the classic trap of the man who wants more than his resources should allow. I virtuously dropped into the bike shop to ask about procedures for getting the machine thoroughly serviced; the nice man asked what it needed, and sucked air through his teeth, and allowed as how it might be that a new bike would prove more economical. And then he showed me some new bikes, and of course I fell in love with one that's twice the price I really need to pay. Hey-ho.
And now we are home, and I am fallen instantly into the classic trap of the man who wants more than his resources should allow. I virtuously dropped into the bike shop to ask about procedures for getting the machine thoroughly serviced; the nice man asked what it needed, and sucked air through his teeth, and allowed as how it might be that a new bike would prove more economical. And then he showed me some new bikes, and of course I fell in love with one that's twice the price I really need to pay. Hey-ho.