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Keystone meeting day 0-1
Mar. 14th, 2010 10:10 pmDay 0: Spent the night at my parents' house. Time change was known but still had confusing effects. Also, it turns out that it takes half an hour to get to the airport from their house too. Why did I stay there again? Oh, right -- so that I could notice I didn't have a swimsuit and get two fearsomely cute ones from Mom instead. And fit Dad for his socks. Okay then.
Day 1: 5:30, wide awake before the alarm. If I was wrong about the antihistamine I will be very put out. It's not like I'm terribly functional on six hours' sleep. But, anxious about getting to plane, fine.
Got to the airport with just about perfect timing, very little waiting at the gate but no chance of not making the plane. Same plane as PI, which was known. She was later due to time change, but not as late as the people whose names I kept hearing called in the terminal as they missed their final boarding calls. The plane was a prop plane, but large for that -- two seats on either side of the aisle. I got window, and took lots of pictures.
( some decent pictures from the plane )
We had a little trouble meeting up with our shuttle driver in Reno, but managed eventually. The drive was really pretty, but I was on the sunny side of the van and couldn't take any good photos. I especially regret the Truckee river on the other side, which had beautiful fresh snow and ice on it; those will probably be gone by tomorrow, as all solid water here is melting apace in the 50F weather.
( foothills photo )
The resort was built in 1947, so it's pretty rustic in parts. What I don't understand is that it was built by a Norwegian, and I've seen pictures of him, and he was a proper Scandinavian beanpole. Why then are the shower heads only suited to people five feet tall or shorter?
( icicles! )
But the room is cozy, now that I'm in it. We arrived too early for rooms to be ready, so there was tired bumming around and an awkward interlude when PI crashed in my room this afternoon, but all is well now. I'm already feeling socially overwhelmed, which is not too surprising given masses of people, forced dinner table sharing, dealing with PI, having a roommate, spending previous night with parents, etc. I think I'll abscond during lunch break tomorrow and walk down to the town ALONE.
Keynote address was a fruit-fly immunity guy, not uninteresting but not that exciting for me. Neat stuff begins tomorrow!
Day 1: 5:30, wide awake before the alarm. If I was wrong about the antihistamine I will be very put out. It's not like I'm terribly functional on six hours' sleep. But, anxious about getting to plane, fine.
Got to the airport with just about perfect timing, very little waiting at the gate but no chance of not making the plane. Same plane as PI, which was known. She was later due to time change, but not as late as the people whose names I kept hearing called in the terminal as they missed their final boarding calls. The plane was a prop plane, but large for that -- two seats on either side of the aisle. I got window, and took lots of pictures.
( some decent pictures from the plane )
We had a little trouble meeting up with our shuttle driver in Reno, but managed eventually. The drive was really pretty, but I was on the sunny side of the van and couldn't take any good photos. I especially regret the Truckee river on the other side, which had beautiful fresh snow and ice on it; those will probably be gone by tomorrow, as all solid water here is melting apace in the 50F weather.
( foothills photo )
The resort was built in 1947, so it's pretty rustic in parts. What I don't understand is that it was built by a Norwegian, and I've seen pictures of him, and he was a proper Scandinavian beanpole. Why then are the shower heads only suited to people five feet tall or shorter?
( icicles! )
But the room is cozy, now that I'm in it. We arrived too early for rooms to be ready, so there was tired bumming around and an awkward interlude when PI crashed in my room this afternoon, but all is well now. I'm already feeling socially overwhelmed, which is not too surprising given masses of people, forced dinner table sharing, dealing with PI, having a roommate, spending previous night with parents, etc. I think I'll abscond during lunch break tomorrow and walk down to the town ALONE.
Keynote address was a fruit-fly immunity guy, not uninteresting but not that exciting for me. Neat stuff begins tomorrow!
