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RCFM Travel Plans
27 March 2006 11:40Things have worked out rather well so here are my plans, still subject to change but they shouldn't change too much.
Wednesday May 24: Depart Fairmont fairly early and drive to Kansas City arriving in the afternoon, hopefully before anything-but-rush hour starts in. Stay overnight with some folks needing a ride to RCFM.
Thursday May 25: Depart Kansas City very early and drive to RCFM, arriving in late afternoon or early evening.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday (May 26,27,28): RCFM
Monday May 29: Stay around for post-RCFM stuff and generally take it easy. Get to sleep early, or at least not too late.
Tuesday May 30: [UPDATE: Change of plans.]Drive back to Kansas City and drop off riders, then drive on to Topeka, KS and meet ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
ginafae and pakiii. Stay at their place overnight.
Wednesday May 31: Start out maybe not so early and drive to Fairmont, by way of US 75 through Nebraska to I-29, then on to Sioux Falls and then home.
The downside is that the Kansas City to RCFM and RCFM to Kansas City & Topeka legs of the trip will be long.
The upside is that:
1. I'll save the expense of two motel stays.
2. My riders will save a good amount as well even if they buy some gasoline for me.
3. I'll have some company for the longest part of the trip.
4. I'll get to add Kansas to my list of states I've actually stayed in overnight. Or visited at all, for that matter.
5. I'll get to see a couple RST folks who I only saw once last year.
At least, if everything works out. As May 30 is the Tuesday after Memorial Day, there might be some RST travel or such that could make things awkward. Fortunately it's early enough that things can be worked out without a big rush, and the folks who need contact information have it.
After reading a post about the upcoming end of a Renaissance performance group and the effect it was having on one of the performers in it, I found myself quietly humming part of a tune that seems to fit, in attitude if not exactly in lyrics. It's not a Renaissance piece, but something from the First World War. If you've heard it, you know the feeling of forlorn wistfulness which it conveys.
( Lyrics, or at least some of them. )
Because ginafae commanded a posting...
To make something invisible you will need:
1. The item to be made invisible. "Item"
2. A box bigger than the item in 1. "Box A"
3. Another box bigger than the item in 1. "Box B"
Those two boxes, A and B, will have to be bigger (or smaller) than each other. Work that out yourself, this is just about invisibility.
Step 1: Put Item inside Box A. Now Item cannot be seen. Box A is still visible, so that must be remedied.
Step 2. Put Box A inside Box B. Now Box A cannot be seen. Box B is still visible, so that must be remedied.
Step 3. Without removing Box A from Box B, put Box B inside Box A. This way, box A blocks the view of box B and box B blocks the view of box A. Since boxes A and B block each other from view, neither can now be seen and anything inside both A and B is also blocked from view and therefore invisible. NOTE: While a Klein Bottle has been said to be inside of itself, it's uncertain if it would be invisible since it can only try to block its own view with itself which seems rather paradoxical. However, no sightings of genuine Klein bottles have been reported so it may be that they cannot be seen. There are visible representations of Klein bottles, but these are not the real thing. Another problem is that the Klein bottle is likely as much outside of itself as inside of itself, if it can be considered as having sides at all.
Step 4. Put the weapon down. I didn't say invisibility was easy. It may be simple, but it is not easy.
Last year I read this account of RST's visit to Wichita which included this line: "There weren't clocks in the hotel room, none of us had watches, and for some reason, the time on my cell phone was completely off." A bit later I saw RST at the Nishna faire in western Iowa and asked about things like that and was surprised to find they'd wound up at some place that didn't have clocks in the rooms. I found that rather boggling.
An idea formed and for the past several weeks when I'd stop in at some store or other I'd see if they had any inexpensive alarm clocks. Eventually I collected enough, and a pack of AA cells for completeness. I had planned on bringing a rather unmarked Box-o'-Clocks to the Waterloo faire and springing it on RST myself, perhaps in the morning or maybe just after close Saturday. But Waterloo seemed to be in doubt and it's on the same weekend as Siouxland - which is my "I will NOT miss this" faire.
So I gave away a bit of it to ginafae who found the idea amusing. I sent the box to RST, care of her. The parcel arrived last week. And this weekend, this happened.
