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Okay! Let's just get this out of the way, in case anyone is coming late to the party, to read about my trip to Louisville (and Indianapolis and Cincinnati): a couple of links to my two-part account of the trip:
Part One: Louisville & Indianapolis
Part Two: Louisville & Cincinnati
Or, you can
Click here to navigate in reverse chronological order, my "Louisville" tagged posts, which, once you the "older" link at the bottom of the page, also takes you through my several days of Twitter digests over the course of the trip.
There's also the
Flickr collection of photo albums, representing all 269 photos (and some videos) I took over the course of the trip. Most of those are still not captioned, though; the captions pasted in so far just copied over from the email travelogues that I also transferred into the above-linked two-part blog posts. I do hope to get them all captioned soon, but that's going to take some more time.
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I don't even have much else to update about today, I have just been so busy—writing up those travelogues, actually. Turns out when you explore three separate cities in as many days, it yields a lot of photos and a lot of information to look up about them for your captions. At least that's what happened with me!
I quite naively thought I would get the complete travelogue finished on Tuesday evening after work, and that was it. But when I realized how many photos I would need to share if I wanted every point of interest Barbara and I stopped at included, I would need to split it into two parts. The total number of photos I wanted to share was 28, although that got bumped to 29 with a "bonus" photo I decided to share at the end of the second email. Just the way things broke down chronologically, which is how I like to run through my vacations and trips in these travelogues, it meant that if I started the second part with the day trip to Cincinnati, then email #1 ("part one") would feature 12 photos; and email #2 ("part two") would feature 17.
After getting home from work, on Tuesday I made myself a veggie hot dog for dinner, and last night I made myself a veggie burger. I made chai both days, but on Tuesday I had completely forgotten I no longer had regular milk, so I made it with unsweetened vanilla almond milk—something I will never do again. The flavor was very much overpowered by both the almond and the vanilla, and it barely tasted like chai at all. So, after going to the library to return the book I took literally three months to finish (but read the last third or so over the trip to Louisville), and then taking the bus the rest of the way home, I walked up to Trader Joe's and bought a gallon of real milk, which I could use to make real chai. It was wonderful.
I only mention the dinners because they are literally the only things I did after work and before bed on either Tuesday or yesterday (Wednesday),
besides working on these travelogues. The captions in part one were largely quite long, so I assumed—again, naively—that I'd get through part two more quickly last night. Turns out there's quite a bit of difference between captioning 12 photos and captioning 17 of them. Plus, somewhat to my surprise, I wound up spending even more time last night than on Tuesday, doing online research to find links to web pages either for or about a lot of the places we went. I wound up learning a lot more about all these cities in that process than I did in the process of actually visiting them. (The most fascinating new discovery, last night, was learning Cincinnati has the largest abandoned subway system in the country.)
In fact, I managed to get the "part one" email sent out on Tuesday night at 9:55 p.m.; "part two" didn't get sent out last night until 10:04. I managed to paste the html versions of captions into the "part one" photo pages on Flickr on Tuesday night, before going to bed; I still had to wait until yesterday morning to construct the html coded, full version of "part one" to post to this blog. With "part two" I had to do the Flickr captioning pasting
and the post construction this morning. In both cases, I backdated them to the time at which the emails were sent out, the night before, so that I would have legitimate blog posts dated each day immediately following my return from Louisville.
In any case, besides when I was working at the office, that all accounts for what I've been doing since getting back: just collating the data, basically, that I then wanted to share about the trip. It took me far too long to even get the photos all finished with their editing and uploaded to Flickr after returning on Monday evening, because even though I have iCloud turned on, the Photos app on my Mac was refusing to load them, so I had to plug the phone in and import them manually, which only delayed the whole process further. I actually did plenty of work on all this shit on Monday itself as well, just couldn't get to working on the travelogues until Tuesday.
So, now it's Thursday. Tomorrow I'll take Shobhit's car and do some serious grocery shopping, both at Costco and at PCC, so that there is stuff Shobhit will want, already stocked in our refrigerator and cupboards. His flights home start tomorrow and he is scheduled to land at SeaTac Airport Saturday afternoon at 2:30.
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[posted 12:38 pm]
