Origins

[unforth]

I forgot to post about this earlier, but in case anyone actually needs to know this, I will not be attending Origins this year after all. Why not, you might ask. Well, my Uncle Red holds a 4th of July party every year. I've never been. Red lives in California with the rest of my dad's family, and I just don't make it out there very often. However, this year is the last year that he is holding it. I really want to go, and I thought, well, 4th of July party, Origins starts the 5th, everything is hunky dory, and I can do both.

If only life were that simple. Turns out the 4th of July party is being held on the 7th of July. Bastards. This puts it right smack dab in the middle of the convention. But I do really want to go. Toss in that my brother, at whose house I stay during Origins generally, is also going to be at the party in California, and, well, I can go to Origins any year; I can go to Uncle Red's last 4th of July party only once, and so the party wins, and I'm skipping the convention. Ah well, life goes on.

In happier news, it means I can probably find the time to do my drive across the country after all, timing it to coincide with the party. This pleases me cause I'm really not sure when else I'm gonna get to do such a drive in my life.

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That's what I was afraid of. That's to insure the car literally in Boston, to a Boston address, so I'll keep poking around and see if I can't do better. I'm seriously thinking about "selling" the car to my grandfather and then putting me on the insurance as a driver, that way I could insure it as if I lived in Lyme, New Hampshire. Of course, I couldn't park in Boston, but I never really wanted to park in the city proper anyway, I want to find parking on the outskirts, cause I know in NYC that's a way to save a lot of money (being willing to commute to one's own car and all. ;) )