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Dance weekend! And other blither.
Nov. 24th, 2024 03:14 pmLast weekend I went to the "Fall Challenge Weekend", held in Vermont and organized and attended by various people associated with MIT Tech Squares. I often don't go, because it is quite a long drive; just about four hours with a stop to charge the car. But this time I went, because I wanted to be distracted from the current political situation. It did an extremely good job of that. Pretty much everybody who was there was in agreement and pretty much nobody talked about it.
Not only that, the dancing was awesome, and there were some fun boardgames and jigsaw puzzles. A lot of the attendees are queer in some form or another, so I danced with boys and girls and everything in between, and took the boy and the girl dance role randomly throughout the weekend.
The food was meh and the housing is dorm style and also meh but I coped.
I brought my bicycle and rode my 2000th mile. There wasn't actually that much time to bike in between all the dance things I wanted to do (and the fact that the sun sets before 4:30 makes the hour before dinner not useful for this purpose). Mostly the bike was useful for commuting to and from the level 2 charger about 3 miles away. The place is on a lake, and there is a 6-mile loop around the lake, which has some steep-ish bits, but is a reasonable ride. There are some spur roads coming off of that loop, some of which are dead ends, but before they get to their dead end, they go straight up! I am not used to that level of steepness. So I didn't get very far up the spurs. I've been up some of them before, and they seemed to be steeper this time. Possibly because the other times I've gone it was warmer (this is held at the same place as the spring gaming weekend). I seem to have a little trouble moving dense air in and out of my lungs, or at least that's what it feels like when I'm riding in the cold.
Earlier, we took the dock out the day after I posted about taking the sailboat out. It's been so dry, and they let the water run out of the lake in order to keep the downstream aquifers alive, thus the level has dropped, so we are just putting the canoe and kayak on the shore. Someday we will have to move them up on top of the wall.
Tomorrow, the garage people are supposed to come and demolish the existing floor! Fingers crossed that this project goes well.
Not only that, the dancing was awesome, and there were some fun boardgames and jigsaw puzzles. A lot of the attendees are queer in some form or another, so I danced with boys and girls and everything in between, and took the boy and the girl dance role randomly throughout the weekend.
The food was meh and the housing is dorm style and also meh but I coped.
I brought my bicycle and rode my 2000th mile. There wasn't actually that much time to bike in between all the dance things I wanted to do (and the fact that the sun sets before 4:30 makes the hour before dinner not useful for this purpose). Mostly the bike was useful for commuting to and from the level 2 charger about 3 miles away. The place is on a lake, and there is a 6-mile loop around the lake, which has some steep-ish bits, but is a reasonable ride. There are some spur roads coming off of that loop, some of which are dead ends, but before they get to their dead end, they go straight up! I am not used to that level of steepness. So I didn't get very far up the spurs. I've been up some of them before, and they seemed to be steeper this time. Possibly because the other times I've gone it was warmer (this is held at the same place as the spring gaming weekend). I seem to have a little trouble moving dense air in and out of my lungs, or at least that's what it feels like when I'm riding in the cold.
Earlier, we took the dock out the day after I posted about taking the sailboat out. It's been so dry, and they let the water run out of the lake in order to keep the downstream aquifers alive, thus the level has dropped, so we are just putting the canoe and kayak on the shore. Someday we will have to move them up on top of the wall.
Tomorrow, the garage people are supposed to come and demolish the existing floor! Fingers crossed that this project goes well.
