Day Two: Far more calm

[thrihyrne]

Today was blissfully uneventful compared to yesterday! Smooth sailing on the highway, several stops, no blown out tires. I was even able to relax after a couple of hours, being convinced that my car wasn't going to explode, the transmission fall out, or anything else to add far too much excitement to my trip.

Now I'm safely with hapendfro!!! :D We're talking fic and characterizations and she's a lovely person. This is one of the most tremendous gifts fandom has given me, which is getting to meet the people I've gotten to know online and actually hug in real time, talk about things face to face, and find inspiration and affection in each other.

We have our computers catty-corner to each other; I have my Mac mini, monitor, keyboard and mouse. It's not the most elegant way to travel, but I can now get my stuff up and running or dismantled and back in their two boxes in under five minutes. ;)

I'll be here until Saturday morning; I hope you all are doing well. Thank you for your kind words and reassurances after yesterday's excitement! I'll be getting two other new tires tomorrow; it seems prudent.

Comments

[shygryf.livejournal.com]

glad to see all is well!

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Yea, verily!! Looking forward to meeting you, too. I'll be in touch when I get further west. :)

[shygryf.livejournal.com]

looking forward to it!

and lookit the Kodamas!

[rickey-a.livejournal.com]

glad things are going better

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

So am I!!! :P

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

Whee! Yay for an uneventful journey.

(I emailed you directions - lmk if you didn't get them!)

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

I got them- sorry for not replying. They're great; I'll print them out and I'll give you a call when I'm about an hour away or so so you'll have a heads up. :)

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

Oh, no worries, I just wanted to be sure it hadn't been eaten by a spam filter or anything! *g* Sounds good.

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

Safe travels!

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Safe and uneventful, at least while on the highway. ;)

[elfscribe5.livejournal.com]

So glad to see things are going well and the odyssey is progressing. Hugs.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Hugs to you! It's so fun talking fandom. :)

[callumjames.livejournal.com]

Well I'm glad that calmness has been restored. I hate driving when I think there's something wrong with the car. This happens more than I would like but fortunately never on such long or crucial journeys as yours! So I'm glad you're feeling all relaxed about it again. I was flicking through one of these silly 'dictionaries of the digital age' the other morning and there was a word in it precisely for face to face meetings with people you've met in cyberspace - now, of course, I can't remember what that word was - Bad Callum!
Enjoy, relax, you're on holiday yay!

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Yes, much more calm. Now I have all new tires, I was able to sell some CDs (enough to cover the cost of one tire, anyway!), and now we're hanging out and I'm trying to find art to make hapendfro a gift icon. :)

I'm on holiday!! :)

[freestylerocker.livejournal.com]

Have a save travel, will ya?

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Will do!! I have lots of time to think about fic, so if you'd like to give some thought to our collaboration, feel free. I am working on a HP story, but I'll be back to Wraeththu soon.

[freestylerocker.livejournal.com]

Don't stress yourself! But tell me if you'll have some ideas for a fic. I'm totally out of drawing-power at the moment and can hardly think =_=

[veloona.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy to see everything is fine! I hope it stays this way :-)
Wishing you a wonderful time with your friend!
And lots of luck for the next part of the trip.
(((cuddles and hugs you)))
PS: I'll drop a little e-mail, too. Have to thank you :-)))

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Yes, dear! Things are much, much better. Got your lovely long email; I'll reply in the next day or so; maybe once I'm at the hotel in St. Louis and I can take my time. ((((((hugs)))))))

[veloona.livejournal.com]

Don't hurry! As long as I know you're fine I'll be patient ;-)
Good to know that things are more easy now. I hope you can somehow enjoy the trip after all now.
(((hugs back and sends sunny hope)))

[cim-halfling.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for new tires! May the rest of the trip be calming and relaxing. I'm glad I double-checked this -- I was about to start phoning to figure out what the next leg of your trip is. Think I'll call you later anyway.

In the meantime, hope you are having fun.

*HUGS*

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

I'll give you a call once I'm in St. Louis, Saturday afternoon. I'm going to need to confer with you, Risie and Lena about how to get around. Silly me thinking everybody was close together. :(

I am having fun! It's so great to talk fandom and writing with someone who understands!! ((hugs))

[verdenia.livejournal.com]

New tires = good. Glad you're adventuring and safe!