home from Pennsic

[cellio]

I am home from Pennsic. It was fun -- good music, good camp, visited with some but not all friends, weather was mostly fine. More later. It began inauspiciously: a couple hours after I arrived it rained, followed by rain, followed by a storm (just for some variety, you know), followed by rain, and then a sprinkle (you tease!) followed by rain, followed by... you get the idea. That went on for about a day and a half (with two camp cars stuck in the mud trying to park) and then it cleared up. And as I said, it was fun otherwise. Rain is good for the land; we just need to work on distribution over time. :-)

While driving to pick up Erik from Mary's Assisted-Living Resort and Spa, Feline Edition (everything was fine, no problems), my other cat-sitter called. I don't use the phone while driving, so I returned the call a few minutes later and it went to voicemail. A few minutes after that he returned the call and my phone never rang (went straight to voicemail), just like Mary's call to let me know she was ready for Erik hand-off. But between those two calls the phone rang normally. This happens every now and then, seemingly randomly, and has happened with multiple phones. I assume the problem is Verizon, not my phone. How bizarre.

What'd I miss here? (And in the world, I suppose, but I have a pile of newspapers to help with that. Yes, I'd rather get the obsolete-by-the-time-I-see-them papers (and have a trusted party bring them in) than tell a stranger that the house he comes to every day will be vacant for a week...)

Comments

[cellio]

Did you get to sing with Bob this year? Did you try any Rossi? Inquiring minds want to know. :-)

The conflict is unfortunate, but presumably it won't happen every year (since it didn't last year). Next year if I don't go to Jerusalem (Shalom Hartman? Pardes?) and if it doesn't conflict with Pennsic, I'll likely go back to NHC.