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Genome Party
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
-- Vince Lombardi
Thursday, February 15, 2001
Two years ago: Liberty!
Three years ago: Valentine
After yesterday's exciting developments, I spent this day quietly. Jack went off to work, and his daughter A----- went out to the bus stop. The roads were frosty enough, though, that the bus didn't come, so she came back inside after twenty minutes and asked me for a ride to her school. I was ok with this (I approve her not wanting to be late), but made her do some of the window-scraping on my car!
I was a bit nervous starting off, but the most icy parts of the road were near Jack's house, and things were ok on the main drag. A---- attends Home Port, an alternative school program (see also here), aimed at helping kids get their GED certificates. They also learn boatbuilding and other craft skills at the same time. I dropped her off at a small warehouse-type building, down near the waterfront.
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Jack had thought he might come home for lunch, but the training program he'd been in this week did go out to eat as a group, so no go. I took time to work on my email and write some journal entries.
In the evening, we went to a party at Jim Kling's house, in honor of the human genome project. Jack had been asking me about something to bring that would fit with that theme, but I didn't come up with anything clever. Anything biological would have DNA iin it, wouldn't it? Except pure sucrose.
It was a fun gathering! We talked about plans for the weekend -- a group of us would be going to Radcon, a science fiction convention in Pasco, Washington, part of the tri-cities. That's near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, thus the name. It's complicated to arrange who will ride with whom, what needs to be picked up where, and all that. It gets more complicated because the group efforts are in aid of a room party at the con to promote Vikingcon 18. Jack will be the chair for this convention next summer.
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