Currently passing the time on a bench in SeaTac airport, till my flight leaves. On accident I arrived here four hours before my flight. Flight left at 6:50, so I got it in my head, 6pm, that’s my flight time [to arrive at the airport]. Somehow I forgot the “to arrive at the airport” bit, so when my ride asked me what time she should pick me up, I did the math backwards from 6pm and figured I should arrive around 5pm. As we were pulling up to departures I realized my mistake just in time to learn that my flight had been delayed to 7:50pm. Didn’t want to inconvenience my ride so figured I’d just tough it out for an extra hour. Got all settled into my bench, when another update said the flight had been delayed again to 8:50pm. Blegh. Actually I really should check to see if it didn’t get delayed again… Nope, still 8:50.
Sunday evening last week I attended a Lamb of God concert down in Tacoma. It’s an annual thing and I haven’t bothered to go in the past. Good thing I went, since apparently this is the last year they’ll be putting it on. The music was good, but the performance was plagued with mic issues. One of the lead singers’ wireless mics suffered from very loud static whenever it was enabled. You could hear it as the tech specialist tried to narrow down which mic needed silencing, as random mics got disabled throughout the performance, until they found the culprit and gave them a hand-held mic. Felt sorry for the performers. But apparently they have issues like this every single year, so, I guess you get what you pay for?
This is a view underneath the deck out back. The water feature leak is back. It was a slow one, but who knows how long it flowed for before I caught it. Entire area back there was soaked. I’m sure it wasn’t any worse than what a few days of Washington winter will do to it, but I didn’t want to pay for it out of season. In the past my strategy has been to shut off the water, wait a few weeks, turn it back on irrationally hoping it went away in the meantime, and be vindicated when the leak actually does go away.
This time I just reduced the flow rate, went to church, came back, and the leak was gone. Weeeird. Not complaining though. Except now that weird humming noise is more audible. Gonna have to do something about that.
The week was pretty ho hum. After YouTube randomly recommended this DS9 clip I’ve fallen in love with the show. The seven-episode arc that follows the clip is fabulous television. Gul Dukat and Weyoun (and Keevan, though he’s only a one-episode character) are excellent villains.
Yesterday I put my back through another round of stress tests, with a 3-hour hike.
Lying down with your head over the edge of a sheer rock cliff is a cathartic experience. 
After we got back I headed straight to a Bellevue ward event, dinner and a showing of Infinity War Part 1. I was wondering about the legality of showing a commercial film in a church building, when the opening credits fizzled out and it turned out we weren’t actually watching a movie, but solving a murder mystery.
Had to split off into teams to explore six classrooms-turned-bedrooms and hunt for clues to determine the murderer, the motive, and the weapon. Turns out the victim was dating two people at once; they found out, combined their respective specialties of chemistry and botany, and concocted a poisoned smoothie. Goodbye, Earl.
Today after Sacrament Meeting it turned out that my ride to the airport was attending an early-afternoon Easter dinner, and invited me along. I’d assumed I’d miss out on any of those, due to my forgetting that this was Easter Sunday when I booked my flights. So that was a nice little get-together. As mentioned earlier I ended up leaving it far sooner than I truly needed to, but it was nice to have been able to go at all.
And my back must be getting better, since I completely forgot to bring my arch support and I seem to be doing just fine.
Looking forward to spending next week with the sibs! Good luck on your finals, and good luck Steve on the new job!
I don’t think you should have included mom on this hiking cliff post.
You knew I’d freak out seeing your head over the cliff right?!? Yowza! But a gorgeous hike. Looks like fun. Sooo glad your back is doing so well. May it continue so! Have a great week!