Maj, Amita June and I had a long day on airplanes today, heading to San Francisco. My brother Ted and his partner Nabil have decided to have a commitment ceremony, which is I guess one way of saying "get married". It's casual and fun, just like Ted and Nabil themselves, but Ted means too much to us for us to miss this event. So we spent some miles, dropped everything, and headed out west.

Amita's still young enough (under 2) that we can sit with her on our lap. Not only that, but if we get her a seat, we have to bring along a car seat -- more of a hassle than having her on our laps. Still, on a crowded flight it can be kind of hard.

Maj is really good at packing for the plane -- putting together food, toys, books and other distractions to get AJ through a long flight. But today tested her skills to the limit -- we had a 2½-hour flight to Dulles, then another 6 hours out to SFO. That's too much for any grown-up, much less a 22-month-old. AJ had a hard time going to sleep at naptime, and we had some crying -- some loud crying. Otherwise, the flight was survivable.

I picked up JPod, the last novel from Douglas Coupland, at the airport before we took off. It's a great read -- difficult, exposed, referential, glib. A good read.

My dad -- Amita calls him "Pappou", Greek for "grandfather" -- met us at the airport. Amita's usually pretty standoffish with any adult who isn't me or Maj, but she's really comfortable with Pappou. She told him stories about flying while we waited for our bags. "Tita... Airplane! Tita... Raisins! Draw! Stickers!"

She got a lot of time to do it, because our luggage took a long time coming off the plane, and two of our bags never came. But it was nice comin' home to my parents' house, who've built a big backyard patio since we were last here. We had pasta and salad on the lanai, and then AJ went down for an easy night's sleep. Soon for me, too.

tags: travel amitajune maj lostluggage sanfrancisco dulles jpop douglascoupland

DemoCampMontreal3

DemoCampMontreal3 is next Tuesday, July 24th, at the SAT. I'm excited about the event, since Niko and I will be showing our new project in public for the first time. It looks like there will be a pretty good line-up, and I love going to SAT for DemoCamps. Of course, I'm flying into Montreal at 5AM that morning, but it'll be good nonetheless.

tags: democampmontreal3 barcamp barcampmontreal sat

Blog reactions

I was glad to see that Creative Commons had a nice response to my essay about paying wiki contributors?. I've had a few people give me private responses, and I think it's an interesting issue that's important for people thinking about wiki, and wiki commercialization, today.

tags: cc wiki commercialization

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