[EDIT: Oops! I meant to post this an hour ago. You see what happens when I have 12pm Office Relocation Team meetings that fuck with my daily routine?]

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Yesterday I took myself to see Fight or Flight, a self-aware trashy action movie set on a plane that I had a lot of fun watching. It'll be a perfect future choice for Action Movie Night. Shobhit suggest I make it my next choice, but I already have several other titles in line for my future choices. (Looks like my next choice will be in July. At that rate, with seven months between turns, I'll have only had one chance to choose inside the calendar year 2025. But, this duration fluctuates so you never know.)

Anyway, the showtime was at 5:35. I'd have had enough time to ride my bike home first, but I'd have had to leave again like ten minutes later so I didn't bother. I wound up working a few minutes late anyway, and still I got to Pacific Place by like 5:11.

I rode the rest of the way home after the movie, and Shobhit had dinner ready, save for baking some frozen naan that was super tasty. I ate in the bedroom while starting on my review. After the review, I went right into the final three episodes of Andor, and I made it through two of them. We'll see if I can find the time to watch the final episode tonight; it likely depends on how long the movie Andrew chooses is.

Andrew is an interesting case: he came frequently like ten years ago, long before Shobhit's and my time, but only started coming again several months ago. He's had four choices in the movie list history, all of them between 2013 and 2015. It's his turn tonight, his first choice in a solid decade. It looks like his last choice was Idiocracy—which they watched during the Biden administration, and had no idea what prescence that movie would have for stuff coming shockingly soon. Anyway his choice history seems relatively okay to me. Nothing great, but at least also nothing terrible. So, I guess we'll see.

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I got rather wet riding my bike to work this morning. Shobhit even said while I was getting ready, "It looks like it's raining a little." I said, "I know," but said I still planned to bike to work. My weather app dropped off its rain forecasts, so I thought I'd be okay. I even opened the balcony door and held my hand out under the overcast and low, misty clouds—the ground was wet, but I couldn't feel any rain. I took a calculated risk.

It didn't work out great. I was riding right out onto the street on 15th Avenue out of the garage when I discovered the misting had gotten heavier—something that gets me wetter than you might think when coasting down a hill on my bike through it. But, I also didn't want to return my bike and catch a bus that would be several minutes later either; this was already about ten minutes later than the bus I would normally catch.

So, I just dealt with it. The fronts of my pant legs got quite wet as I coasted down Pine toward downtown. The misty rain seemed to get thicker as I got closer to the waterfront. My pants dried within a short while after arriving at work, at least. We'll see how things are looking on my way home after work today. Again, no rain forecast at the moment, and it appears dry as I write this, anyway. I need to knock on wood.

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In other news, the planned trip to North Cascades National Park with Dad in September has been pushed up to July. I exchanged several texts with Dad yesterday, even called him briefly while I was still at work. He and Sherri will be making a longer trip of it; he wants to stay at least one night on the west side of the Cascades and at least one night on the east side. As of now, I will just go for one overnight stay: in Winthrop, the town on the east side of the mountains, on Monday, July 21. I'll drive home the next day.

Shobhit and I can barely make a day trip out of a destination four hours away, and that's what this is—so for me, it won't be any big deal to drive there one day and drive home the next. Dad told me, "I could do that when I was younger, but I can't anymore." They want to take their time, I get it.

Also, Shobhit would surely be going with me for this under normal circumstances, but I'll be going on my own: he has a labor conference in Vancouver, WA that starts on July 22, and he thinks he'll probably head down on the 21st. As of now we're considering whether he can take the train (currently round trips for these dates are as cheap as $54) so I can use the car rather than renting one. Ideally I would stay at the same rustic resort Dad booked in Winthrop, but he wound up taking the one cabin with an affordable price I was looking at! But it's okay, I found another resort with rustic cabins about a mile away, and this one I could book through Hotels.com and get reward points, plus it was nearly $60 cheaper anyway.

Either way, the trip is booked and planned, and now nearly all travel planned for the rest of 2025 is booked, at least that I'll have to pay for: Fox Island with Gabriel & friends May 30 to June 1; Washington D.C. with Shobhit June 4-10; North Cascades National Park with Dad and Sherri July 21-22; and Victoria via the Clipper with Shobhit (no longer with Laney) December 22-23. The only thing left is the Co+nvergence conference in the Twin Cities in mid-August, but that still has yet to be booked through work contacts.

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[posted 2:18pm]