Committed

We've got our passports. Nobody told me how lovely they are, with origami papers on the first pages and state seals watermarked through the visa pages.

We've got our tickets. This was really difficult. I finally succeeded in getting them through AAA. Since the other 3 places all fell apart at the final click, I think that they hit the same problem as AAA but only have one error message. The problem AAA had was that -- and I probably should have known this but I didn't -- my bank card has a limit of $3000 in a day. So to get the money, I had to get the credit union to raise the limit, which they would only do for one day. Then I had to quick quick call AAA back and get the tickets paid for. New glitch: the ticket prices are going up steadily and while I had seats reserved I did not have a locked ticket rate. However, the nice ladies at the AAA call center kept me on hold while they wrestled with the system and I got them at the rate they were when we started. I don't know how much that saved me, but when I was struggling before the total cost for four people had increased by $300 in 24 hours, and this was more like five days total (including trying to do the bank card work by phone and failing, and then being interrupted by a weekend).

Now: reservations which I will not do until tomorrow because I've spent all I can in one day, and some other stuff.

I hate this, by the way. I don't want to go anywhere. I want to stay home. I could spend my whole life within eighty miles of my house and be fine. Why do I have to get in a scary old airplane and go someplace?

blog against racism week

Blogging against racism will happen later. Meanwhile, the userpic for the week is derived from the illustration I made when I was working on the story I call "Tasmanian Flower Basket." It's Ishi, Shawnadithit, and Truganini, all "the last" survivors of destroyed peoples. (none of them turned out to be really the last, but their experiences were of being the last) The people in question: Ishi -- Yahi, California: Shawnadithit, Beothuk, Maritime Provinces: Truganini, Tamsanian. Each of these last people spent their latter lives recreating their culture and history for the conquerors.

blogspot and syndication

I have syndications of several non-lj blogs. Two of them, Respectful of Otters, and The Early Days of A Better Nation, update rather more rarely than others. They're also both blogspot blogs. Everytime they do update I get many many posts at once -- old ones.

ANybody know how to fix this?