BS: Son of Where's Micca??!

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jul 12 - 07:29 PM

Sounds lovely, and the idea of it getting too cool (!) in the evening is positively enchanting (sez a denizen of Texas).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Jul 12 - 02:30 AM

Well, he'll get his share of beastly hot weather at my place.
Right now we have thunder, which is unusual for this time of year.
Looking forward to seeing you, Micca.
Sorry about the weather.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jul 12 - 10:37 PM

We sat inside, ate lasagna, drank Chimay, and had a wonderful time. I hope they come back tomorrow! Thanks for coming, Claire and Micca and Martin.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jul 12 - 09:18 AM

I am expecting a diary of lasagna tastings by the time Micca reaches Maine. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Micca
Date: 25 Jul 12 - 11:05 AM

We are in some odd place called Placerville, CA and ,after, a fairly indifferent dinner and a nights sleep are ready to sally forth for breakfast, we have to let the Bacon Monster loose on it or he gets restive!! This California is a HOOT!! Like but not like waht I expected, some parts are arid, as I expected, but some are Very green, and lush, with very tall trees (200ft +)redwoods, visiting Joe and Christina was just splendid, to see Joe in his "Natural Habitat" so to speak, was very relaxing, especially when Christina, did some massage work on me!!!!,we are heading, as mentioned ,for food, then I understand, to see some more of this wonderful CA state, I will post pics when I get somewhere with a more stable server,I want you all to know How much I am suffering on your behalf!!

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Nancy King
Date: 25 Jul 12 - 09:04 PM

Micca -- glad you're having a good time! Please check your PMs!!

--Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: My guru always said
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 03:34 AM

Keep on suffering Micca and don't forget the piccies!

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Micca
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 02:25 PM

There are a few pics Herefrom our trip to The Giant Redwoods and I will add to it as time and opportunity permit

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 06:09 PM

Those are incredible, Micca! So pretty! Who has a reclining chair out amongst the deer, though? Too kewl!!

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Micca
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 11:23 AM

After an afternoon looking at some wonderful looking Houses in very well kept original condition, and a huge variety of Styles, (Mexican, Colonial, Art Deco, everything really) Went to dinner last night in a Restaurant in Alameda with a sensational view over San Francisco Bay ,Great food, Good wine and the best company, then went to Quinns lighthouse and met with Skip Henderson and joined in some singing, in all a very enjoyable time.

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ranger1
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 06:53 AM

Micca, when do arrive in Maine? Send me a PM or call me.

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 12:23 PM

Skip Henderson? Lucky you!
We are eagerly awaiting your arrival, Mr. Patterson. Alice is beside herself with anticipation.
Still abit hot and sticky here. Fan in your room to make the nights comfortable.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 11:59 AM

Yesterday's Micca adventures: a rather pricy trip to that Mecca of geekdom, Frye's Electronics (the original store, which is Egyptian themed), followed by a pilgrimage to the (also Egyptian themed) Rosecrucian Museum, dinner at home, and an evening of convivial beer-drinking with a neighbor who's a very creditable home brewer. Who knows what marvels today will bring?

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 12:53 PM

Who cooked, Claire? After Micca's last swim in the salad, he has been banned from the kitchen here. Hairy hands in the dressing much to all our distress. LOL
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 03:26 PM

Micca is cooking tonight, but I will be watching...

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: My guru always said
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 05:05 AM

Fan in your room to make the nights comfortable

Which Fan have you talked into that SINS? That's more likely to make Micca even MORE hot and sweaty....

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Will Fly
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 09:18 AM

Sorry Micca - ain't got round to "Ain't Misbehavin'" on tenor guitar just yet.

This'll have to do in the meantime - follow this thread....

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 09:34 AM

Definitely follow the thread. Will has done our Micca up in Music.
Electric fan, mgas. And NO, don't take that any further. LOL
Meantime, I have discovered slacks, two t-shirts and a green man jacket along with shoes and possibly sneakers left behind on Micca's last trip. If he keeps this up he can visit sans suitcases next time around.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 11:02 AM

Good job you found shoes, SINS -- Micca left his trainers in Sonoma County and has been getting by with slip-ons ever since.

C

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Micca
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 12:15 PM

Dinner last night was a success, a combined op, with Claire doing most of it as she knew her way round the kitchen we were borrowing!! and very pleasent after dinner conversation accompanied by Strega, Strawberries, and little crisp almond biscuits, this whole trip has been punctuated with lovely friendly, welcoming people! and it will be hard to leave.
Yesterday we went to the "Temple of Geekdom" The Original Frys Computer store, In Campbell,nr Oakland, and had an "interesting" time fending off sales staff, then we went to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, Fascinating place, with Beautiful Gardens,including a pond with waterlilies and all sorts of Egyptian stuff, I will ,I hope, put some pix up later, and link here

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Micca
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 01:08 PM

New photos are Here

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 07:48 PM

We have a Fry's here in the Fort Worth area, you usually need to hunt down sales staff (they have enough, they're just very busy). Someone told me Fry's changed the way they pay their folks, commission sales, so they're probably all scrambling more. Too bad, it worked the way it was set up before and was more fair.

So when are you coming to Texas, Micca? It cools down by October. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 10:22 PM

Micca and Claire, I am so happy to hear you made it Rosicrucian Park. Was the hippopatomus goddess still in front of the museum, too? I have some beautiful 35mm photos from the mid-80s when we visited. Do they still have rose standards throughout the gardens?

Your trip sound wonderful, Micca. It is a wonderful thing you are doing, all of you!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 01:58 PM

Micca,
Jacqui somehow thought you were arriving in bOSTON/mAINE tomorrow. Not trying to tie you down but need I get in some champagne and lasagna?
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 03:54 PM

SINS -- I am delivering Micca to the airport at 4am and Ranger1 is said to be picking him up at your end. That's all I know...perhaps Micca will weigh in soon.

C

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Micca
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 04:28 PM

The plan is, Wednesday 1 August San Francisco 06.00 to Boston Logan 14.48 then Concord Trailways Logan 3:35p to Portland 5:45p that is the intention, any snags I hope to be on the next bus 1 hour later!!

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Becca72
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 04:33 PM

Sounds like that's a "yes" on the grub and booze, Sins... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 06:02 PM

All systems go. I will let Tami know - although I can pick you up on my way home from work. We'll see.
M

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ranger1
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 06:06 PM

I will pick his gnomeship up so that you can have a few minutes to yourself, Mary. I only live five minutes away from the station.

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 07:52 PM

I think you'll find everything in good nick and well lubricated with California wine. "His gnomeship" has been well treated in the Wild, Wild West.

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 08:01 PM

Well done, Claire! Somehow I knew he was in good hands.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Micca
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 10:57 PM

Good Hands? i'll say, and friends that will get up at Stupid O'Clock to get me to the airport too, and what am I doing as I prepare for tommorows "ordeal by United"? I am sipping wine and eating cheese in the mild California evening, watching the birds flitter about the Garden, The wine is a blend and like someone is trying to make a Cab Sauv. without using any of the grapes!! but fair dos.

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 08:57 AM

Soooooo
Lawn chairs on the back porch right in the black fly line of fire. Mateus Rose and store bought lasagna to bring you back to earth. Maybe some Kraft American slices.
LOL
Welcome Micca!

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 09:22 AM

Posting from my cell. I had a flat while driving Micca to the airport and he's missed his flight. He is in a long queue to get an alternate flight. I will post more when I know it...will try phoning Jacqui too, so she can pass on news or give me SINS and RangerOne's contact info.

Cheers
Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 09:29 AM

Oh, gawd...United. Last time I flew United we ended up leaving Oakland at the same time we should have been landing at O'Hare. I HATE O'Hare...and had to spend 6+ hours there while United moved the boarding gate several times. Didn't help that I was broke enough not to be able to afford sustenance and neither of my next two flights back to Manchester, NH served anything more filling than mixed nuts.

Good luck, Micca!

BTW, if you check the declutter thread, you'll find what I've been dealing with for the past week and a half. I'm just hoping the facial and arm rash (and everywhere else, too, alas; just not visible) will have other shoppers at the grocery store later figuring I'm contagious and will keep out of my way (so I don't have to kill them). I REALLY wish Tom were more mobile so I could drive him to the store. Actually, I REALLY REALLY wish he could see to drive as well.

This too will pass (the rash and Tom's mobility problem, at least).

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 10:58 AM

So Micca got another flight that leaves at 8:30am from SFO, stops in Denver, and then flies through to Boston to land at 8:21pm. The flight number is 460, in case anyone wants to check the flight status later on.

He has checked baggage, so by the time he retrieves it he will be taking the 9:35pm Concord Coach Lines bus, which arrives in Portland at 12:10am.

Sorry, everybody! I wish I could have gotten him there on time, but we had the flat in the absolute middle of nowhere, and the lug nuts wouldn't budges, and the tow truck and taxi I called both had trouble finding us -- in fact, the taxi ultimately refused to come find us. My fault; I thought I'd taken a different exit than the one I took. (It can be hard to read the road sign in the dark at 4am on 3 hours' sleep when you've suddenly lost a tire on the highway.) Mercury is, after all, in retrograde. I regret the inconvenience for whoever ends up having to go gnome hunting, and will try to make it up to you later on...at the Getaway, say.

C

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 12:04 PM

You know what? When something like that happens to us, we figure it is for the highest good of all concerned, i.e. something worse may have been avoided by the delay. As long as he gets there, that's all that matters. Sorry to hear about the tire and the uppity taxi idjit.

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ranger1
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 12:11 PM

Got it. Thanks, Claire. Luckily, I don't have to be to work until noon tomorrow, so fetching the gnome at 12:10 AM is not a problem.

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 12:53 PM

Yay! I am happy to hear that. I hope SINS is equally delighted to have her order of ebriated gnomishness deliverd at 12:30am.

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Becca72
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 01:46 PM

Micca doesn't have a key by now?? Lord knows he keeps enough clothing there already. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 02:44 PM

Wow! The saga continues.

Micca should have a great week or so in Maine. Unlike the rest of the country we've been having reasonably temperate weather. And the lobster prices are rock bottom.

Hope to see Micca when we get back from Chicago on August 13th. Maybe I can drag him off to dinner Wednesday evening that week.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 02:51 PM

Micca should have taken the train as he originally planned. Probably the same amount of time. LOL

Bless you Tami.
I will leave the front door unlocked - I have to be up before 6AM. But I will probably hear you coming in. Check the fridge for food and drink. Clean towels in bath. I will leave a toothbrush out as well - sealed.
I agree with Kat. Something better will come of this or something worse has been averted.
Who knows? Maybe he will share a row with one of his opera favorites and actually enjoy the flight.
Becca - don't start rumors.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Micca
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 02:59 PM

WELL the good/bad?news is I am in Denver Co and it is 90degs F!! luckily ,the Airport lounge has A/c. and I am reasonably comfortable, qith WiFi and a short, 2 hour wait for the onward flight to Boston, Claire is the ideal copmpanion in adversity!! and I always wanted to watch the moonset in California, I didnt Quite have by a roadside waiting for a Tow truck from The AA in mind!!, WE Couldnt budge the Lugnuts (Torque wrench or airline applied by Garage ,no doubt) but we got to the desk about 5 mins before the flioght left so it was no go, but in fairness Uniteds Deskstaff were Very helpful and frieendly and checked me in right away for another flight leaving only 2 hours later! unfortunately with a 2 hour stop in Denver. So for Tams, here is the inside straight, Dep Denver 2.24pm arr Bos 8.21pm will get the first Concord Trailways I can which I suspect Claires research is right and it will be the 9.35, (But where will I find a woman carrying a guitar to complete the recognition criterion?) I am in good spirits having slept most of the way here (listening to Tchaikovsky Symphony 5 on my headphones) and hope to sleep much of the next bit too!! TTFN see ya later!

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ranger1
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 03:36 PM

And she has to be a Scottish woman with a guitar, don't forget that bit. I'm still astounded that the gentleman that I said "excuse me, but have you seen a gnome and a Scottish woman?" to never batted an eye when asked, but merely asked me if she was carrying a guitar and then said yes, you'd gotten off at the other bus station.

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 03:44 PM

You mean he is going to arrive well rested?????
Oh dear god!
Maybe I'll get a bottle or two for me.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: My guru always said
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 03:47 PM

ClaireDear, you have done a fabulous job of looking after the Gnome and sending him on his way, tyre notwithstanding!

And I agree with katlaughing, when Fate gets in your way, there's always a reason, better to go with it.

MiccaDear, hope the rest of your journeys are safe and please give those Maineiacs huge hugs from Me!

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 06:18 PM

Lasagna with meat sauce in the fridge with some sort of sparkling stuff. Towles in the bathroom with a toothbrush. Bed where it always is and window open. Hope it's cools enough but there is a fan up there if you need it.
Maybe I will see you if I wake up. If not, my morning routine is sacred. Speak on threat of death.
Much love,
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: Janie
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 11:26 PM

Thanks ya'll. What a delightful adventure to follow. Please continue to share for us voyeurs.

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ranger1
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 12:27 AM

Right. Roaming gnome has been fetched without incident from the bus station, he's been to my place to say hello to J-boy and meet Kaylee the Ninja Cat (where he left his cap) and he's been safely stowed at Mary's. I'll see him in the AM for breakfast, provided he doesn't speak to Mary.

Subject: RE: BS: Son of Where's Micca??!
From: ranger1
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 12:28 AM

Oh, and 100!