{"id":3566,"date":"2018-05-08T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2018-05-08T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T21:07:07","slug":"craziness-san-francisco-carnival-cards-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3566","title":{"rendered":"Craziness! (San Francisco, Carnival, cards, life)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m, uh&#8230; really rather behind here. Which is matching the rest of my life pretty well, so I guess that&#8217;s not a huge surprise. <a href=\"http:\/\/life.alanv.org\">Life&#8217;s<\/a> photojournal and stats pages have finally been updated, a bit later than usual, mostly because I&#8217;ve been super behind in photo sorting and tagging recently.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, lots of things have been happening lately. Let&#8217;s see how many I can remember&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re in something like year six of four weddings per year, except last year which only had three. But this year felt like it had to make up for last year by having <em>six<\/em> weddings. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately, for travel), two of them are on exactly the same dates as two others, so we&#8217;re only going to four. But one of those is in Hawaii, a week before I have to be in SF for work again, which is in turn a week before <em>another<\/em> wedding in Chicago. Which is a week before <em>another<\/em> wedding in San Francisco. It&#8217;s going to be an insane travel time.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of insane travel, I was in San Francisco for work in April, and it was a nice time.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos2.alanv.org\/knowngalleries\/San_Francisco418\/NKN_6500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos2.alanv.org\/knowngalleries\/San_Francisco418\/NKN_7519.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos2.alanv.org\/knowngalleries\/Alcatraz418\/NKN_6654.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos2.alanv.org\/knowngalleries\/Napa418\/WRL_5257.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But I had to rush back, without the usual Phoenix stopover, because the following week was Carnival! We had fewer guests in our house this year than last (two kids and three adults, compared to last year&#8217;s two kids and six adults), which I think was a lot more manageable. Carnival itself, however, made up for the relative calm at home by being both a reunion year and being the KGB 30 celebration, which meant there were lots (and lots) of events to worry about.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos2.alanv.org\/knowngalleries\/Carnival_Games_2018\/NKN_0208.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos2.alanv.org\/knowngalleries\/Carnival_KGB_2018\/NKN_9867.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos2.alanv.org\/knowngalleries\/Carnival_Other_2018\/NKN_0091.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the craziness of that stuff died down, work started picking up again. I officially got a promotion to Architect, which is insane and also means I&#8217;m dealing with things across four different teams now. Which I&#8217;d been unofficially doing anyway, but somehow it just <em>feels<\/em> a lot more serious now or something.<\/p>\n<p>I also bought more <a href=\"http:\/\/junk.alanv.org\/?tag=dbz\">Dragon Ball Z card game cards<\/a>. Lots and lots of cards. 12,460 cards, give or take a couple booster packs. So, with that, there&#8217;s been a lot of pack opening and card sorting and things that I generally find relaxing and soothing. Which is nice, except it means I&#8217;ve been neglecting other personal projects like photos. Still have over half of it left to open, but I don&#8217;t have to deal with it all now.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/5818cards.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In more recent things, winter seems to have finally ended, and Brian hosted a rose wine party to celebrate. We drank a lot of wine, but I guess we were also a reasonably large group, so it&#8217;s not too crazy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/5818wine.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping I can catch up on photos and things before the insanity of weddings begins&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m, uh&#8230; really rather behind here. Which is matching the rest of my life pretty well, so I guess that&#8217;s not a huge surprise. Life&#8217;s photojournal and stats pages have finally been updated, a bit later than usual, mostly because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3566\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-card-games-purchased","category-salesforce","category-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}