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nosrednayduj) wrote2023-07-17 01:04 am
nosrednayduj) wrote2023-07-17 01:04 am
Trip report
I'm in California.
After the delayed flight finally arrived, I had very late (for me) dinner and went to bed at my host's house. In the morning I did morning things, including a walk around their neighborhood with a stop at a convenience store to acquire Mountain Dew. Enjoyed this art, and also did not take a photo but there was a driveway which was covered in sidewalk chalk, and they'd had stencils, so it looked like a stained glass window.
There was a square dance at my host's house, which was supposedly a one square dance, but we had 16 people for C2, and preceding that we had 14 for plus, so it was quite a crowd. We did intro to hex with the plus dancers for part of it. Some of them are small children (okay, 10-year-olds), which is great. Perhaps there is hope for the activity after all. And we crammed a second square into their kitchen during a few of the C2 tips. A great time was had by all. Well, by me anyway.
And there was some gameplaying. I surprisingly came in second in Dominion, I had thought I was way further behind, and we also played some game whose name I've already forgotten, about path building, which was pretty good, and that one I won, which didn't completely surprise me; I think my planning-ahead skills are superior to 10-year-olds'.
Today I drove to Golden Gate Park where my mom's ashes are and walked around the tree in question, didn't see any sign of them, which is probably best. Said "goodbye mom" and admired some other nearby foliage. Then I headed to Sausalito where Jocelyn is performing with Flynn Creek Circus.
I got there early, and offered to "do stuff", since one of the problems with the traveling circus is that, because she has no car, it's hard to get stuff done when you are set up in a random park that is at least a mile walk from anything. So she gave me a shopping list, and I fulfilled it with two different stores. Then I picked up subway sandwiches for me, her, and her boyfriend, so they didn't have to worry about feeding themselves lunch. Unfortunately, the whole shopping expedition took a little longer than I had hoped, and so they only had 10 minutes to inhale before they needed to do show things.
I invited some of Clyde's relatives, and they thought it was great. Some other friends also came (I let them buy their own tickets), and they also thought it was great.
I did a little clandestine videoing of Jocelyn's main act, which she does not do every show. Every show she has a few acrobatic/clown sequences, but those were difficult to video without disturbing people behind me.
The rest of the show was also good: they have an amazing juggler, and a guy who does "card tricks" – it was really a whole magician act, but it was based on doing amazing things with playing cards in your hand. I hope they make a professional video of this show, because it would be great to see it again. I'm not really a fan of contortion, but their contortionists were very good.
The theme was a little odd: it was about finding water in the desert, so there was some clowning, including people dressed up as cacti. There was a bunch of stuff about aliens visiting Earth, and I guess that might have something to do with area 51 being in the desert. The intro to the juggler was people being dressed up as Men in Black (or maybe from The Matrix? Men in Black is kind of a spoof on The Matrix, right? I have seen them both, but it was a while ago.) And there was a bunch of other random stuff about mysterious things happening, and then they would segue into some circus act. They had Chinese Pole, in the guise of a coconut tree which our hero was trying to get water from, and had to climb and so forth. He did an excellent job.
And there were a lot of other things that I'm not remembering, since I didn't video them and I didn't take notes, I just said "wow man".
During the second show (I had gone to the first show), I did laundry for Jocelyn and her boyfriend. Laundry is expensive when you use a laundromat! It cost about seven dollars for one fairly large load.
Then I drove to Chico, where I am now. It was lovely in Sausalito, and it was still 101 degrees at 9 PM in Chico. On the drive up, I was treated to a stellar sunset. I stopped and took a picture of an early portion of it, and it just got better and better, but I did not pull over again, and by the time I actually got to my hotel it had faded.
I took a lot of pictures of Jocelyn's abode, and the outside of the circus tent, but I had the stupid "live" option selected, so it is a minor headache to extract the photos for posting. I guess I must select that option in my pocket or something, because I always turn it off when I notice it's on, and it comes back.
After the delayed flight finally arrived, I had very late (for me) dinner and went to bed at my host's house. In the morning I did morning things, including a walk around their neighborhood with a stop at a convenience store to acquire Mountain Dew. Enjoyed this art, and also did not take a photo but there was a driveway which was covered in sidewalk chalk, and they'd had stencils, so it looked like a stained glass window.
There was a square dance at my host's house, which was supposedly a one square dance, but we had 16 people for C2, and preceding that we had 14 for plus, so it was quite a crowd. We did intro to hex with the plus dancers for part of it. Some of them are small children (okay, 10-year-olds), which is great. Perhaps there is hope for the activity after all. And we crammed a second square into their kitchen during a few of the C2 tips. A great time was had by all. Well, by me anyway.
And there was some gameplaying. I surprisingly came in second in Dominion, I had thought I was way further behind, and we also played some game whose name I've already forgotten, about path building, which was pretty good, and that one I won, which didn't completely surprise me; I think my planning-ahead skills are superior to 10-year-olds'.
Today I drove to Golden Gate Park where my mom's ashes are and walked around the tree in question, didn't see any sign of them, which is probably best. Said "goodbye mom" and admired some other nearby foliage. Then I headed to Sausalito where Jocelyn is performing with Flynn Creek Circus.
I got there early, and offered to "do stuff", since one of the problems with the traveling circus is that, because she has no car, it's hard to get stuff done when you are set up in a random park that is at least a mile walk from anything. So she gave me a shopping list, and I fulfilled it with two different stores. Then I picked up subway sandwiches for me, her, and her boyfriend, so they didn't have to worry about feeding themselves lunch. Unfortunately, the whole shopping expedition took a little longer than I had hoped, and so they only had 10 minutes to inhale before they needed to do show things.
I invited some of Clyde's relatives, and they thought it was great. Some other friends also came (I let them buy their own tickets), and they also thought it was great.
I did a little clandestine videoing of Jocelyn's main act, which she does not do every show. Every show she has a few acrobatic/clown sequences, but those were difficult to video without disturbing people behind me.
The rest of the show was also good: they have an amazing juggler, and a guy who does "card tricks" – it was really a whole magician act, but it was based on doing amazing things with playing cards in your hand. I hope they make a professional video of this show, because it would be great to see it again. I'm not really a fan of contortion, but their contortionists were very good.
The theme was a little odd: it was about finding water in the desert, so there was some clowning, including people dressed up as cacti. There was a bunch of stuff about aliens visiting Earth, and I guess that might have something to do with area 51 being in the desert. The intro to the juggler was people being dressed up as Men in Black (or maybe from The Matrix? Men in Black is kind of a spoof on The Matrix, right? I have seen them both, but it was a while ago.) And there was a bunch of other random stuff about mysterious things happening, and then they would segue into some circus act. They had Chinese Pole, in the guise of a coconut tree which our hero was trying to get water from, and had to climb and so forth. He did an excellent job.
And there were a lot of other things that I'm not remembering, since I didn't video them and I didn't take notes, I just said "wow man".
During the second show (I had gone to the first show), I did laundry for Jocelyn and her boyfriend. Laundry is expensive when you use a laundromat! It cost about seven dollars for one fairly large load.
Then I drove to Chico, where I am now. It was lovely in Sausalito, and it was still 101 degrees at 9 PM in Chico. On the drive up, I was treated to a stellar sunset. I stopped and took a picture of an early portion of it, and it just got better and better, but I did not pull over again, and by the time I actually got to my hotel it had faded.
I took a lot of pictures of Jocelyn's abode, and the outside of the circus tent, but I had the stupid "live" option selected, so it is a minor headache to extract the photos for posting. I guess I must select that option in my pocket or something, because I always turn it off when I notice it's on, and it comes back.