Sunday, 25 August 2013

Standby for Launch!

Systems check . . . .
  • Google Nexus 10 charged and uploaded with Fireball XL5 videos: Check!
  • Superman underpants, Hawaiian shorts, hippy sandals & geeky sci-fi T-shirts packed: Check!
  • KLM airline seats booked and on-board films identified (Iron Man 3 - goody!): Check!
  • Entry visas to Fortress America logged and paid for: Check! (Memo to Self: go through the official site next time and pay £14 rather than a phoney site that charges £85, dammit!)
  • Book rental car from Enterprise (who else! -- it is a Sci-Fi Convention, after all) for the post-Con Texas tour: Check!
  • Blog website set up and functioning: Ongoing!
  • Empty freezer, eat all the rubbish that's been hiding there all year, and defrost: Ongoing! (Memo to Self: next time, buy a more expensive fridge that defrosts itself!)
  • Get Linda to sew me a carry case for the Nexus so I can look like Spock with an outsized tricorder: Ongoing! (Memo to Self: must get myself some false pointy ears!)

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

When do you get up at 70 am

Anonymous said...

Are we there yet. What day is it .is the clock right.

Have a good one.

£85.to get in should have gone to speck-savers

Margaret said...

Looking forward to the adventures

Da5e's Blogs said...

Okay, maybe it makes more sense to time it GMT. Just remember Texas will be 6 hours ahead . . . er . . . behind, I mean. (See, I knew I'd get confused!)

Anonymous said...

Omg! You are more bonkers than I am. Beam me up Scott's please. The white witch

Steve said...

Hello everyone,
looking forward to another adventure in the twilight world. Regards to the Farrants. Meanwhile I am watching my paint dry !!

Anonymous said...

Meant 'beam me up Scotty' - autocorrect still gets the better of me

Gary said...

Hmmm, tried to leave a comment yesterday .... doesn't seem to have arrived yet, perhaps it's in the outbound queue!! Good news from Texas is that the temperature is forecast to be 101 on Thursday and 102 on Friday, that's gonna take some re-hydratin'!! Dave'll probably be asleep with his jetlag for 2 days tho'.
Have a nice day y'all.

Anonymous said...

Please send a picture when you get the spock ears !

Louise just got in to US for US$13 ! You old folk should check out with the younger generation before you unleash the credit card ! You haven't hired a car have you......

Must be nice to be properly retired.
Bangkok Banger

Ginge said...

Can't help but notice Linda didn't get a mench on the pre-flight plans, apart from sew me a carry case(memo to Sheldon hope you packed the wife).
Just got back from Car-Fest,and about to sign up for the Somerset cheese and Cider festival 2014, not as hot but just as messy!!!!!
TTFN give my regards to fortress America.

Da5e's Blogs said...

Linda's alive and well. Today, she's celebrating our 30th Wedding Anniversary (no, really! -- our honeymoon was a tour of the western US and now 30 years later we're back again!) by defrosting the fridge, packing the cases, organising the paperwork, organising me, and generally multitasking in the way that only female homo sapiens can! Maybe I should go and give her a hand . . .

Launch Minus 22 hours . . .

Ginge said...

NNNNNOOOOOO, Sheldon sit down you fool.You know you will only get in the way or do it all wrong.As you are having a re-run of 30 years ago are you packing one J.Daley or was the once enough????

Anonymous said...

What's happening at the ranch.