Mortaine’s Blog

One of the things John and I miss the most about being on the road is our friends.

Actually, that’s not true. THE thing we miss the most is our friends. We’ve seen our family more in the last six months than we had in the previous six years, but we find ourselves feeling disconnected from our friends.

WE MISS YOU!!!

So, we invite all of our friends to join us in any of our destinations. If you’re thinking of a vacation soon, or you don’t think enough about a vacation, but realize you should, why not plan your vacation to coincide with our wanderings? And, of course, if our wanderings take us near you, do let me know. We would love to see you!

Here’s our upcoming schedule:

Now until March 25: Florida City, FL, which is 20 miles south of Miami.

February 28-March 9: Sámara, Costa Rica.

March 25-30: Jacksonville, FL

We then head up the East Coast, but not on a fixed schedule.

April 10-25: Washington, DC.

May 1-20: Massachusetts, near Boston.

May 21-26: New Haven, Connecticut

May 28-June 7: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

August 15-20 (or thereabouts, but including my birthday!): Portland, Oregon (probably not bringing the RV, though).

Many of these destinations coincide with conventions, conferences, baptisms, or weddings that John and I are attending. We have a baptism in May in Mass, a wedding at the end of May in Connecticut, and another wedding in Portland the day before my birthday.

The Philadelphia dates coincide with the STC annual conference, where I’ll be speaking at the Consultants and Independent Contractors progression session.

Jacksonville coincides with a local chapter of the Romance Writers of America. I can’t bring myself to go to San Francisco for it at the end of July, so I decided to attend a smaller local conference first. Maybe next year I’ll be ready for the big thing.

Via Brokenclay….

Sorting People into Bins:
Airport to try tailored security

This is great. It’s only one step away from signing the actual screening process, by skin pigment and gender!

I dreamed I pulled off a huge heist, like $90 billion, from the federal reserve (I know, that’s chump change to the feds). In the course of the heist, I got caught, and was shot some 80 times by one of my partners in crime (the inside woman). She died of her injuries (you think I didn’t shoot back?) but I didn’t, and it was discovered that I was “unbreakable” (a la the Bruce Willis movie). In my court case, I pleaded that, since I had superpowers, I should be allowed to use them for good, not evil, and had I known about them, I’m sure I would never have pulled off the heist.

Later, I dreamed we were trying to put a couple of large motorhome/buses into the back field at my mom’s place, and one of them was a bus being towed by a strap which tipped over and landed on its side, breaking all the windows.

I also dreamed that Kirei was totalled, and we needed to get a free replacement. I kept wondering why were bothering, since we didn’t even need or own the car anymore.