Stuck in Madrid for three hours longer than planned/ideal. I couldn't make the reservation that needs to go with the interrail pass for the Madrid-Sevilla train except in-person (myself - tried to send agents in advance, no go) at the station. After standing in line at two different renfe ticket offices before being told "not this ticket office" I waited for 30 minutes at the third to be told the last seat on the 5pm train went to the person in line before me. I blame the massiveness of Madrid station. So my only next option was first class on the 1958, which gets me in way past my bed time. Alas. At least first class was only 3eur extra.
And I have discovered that there are free toilets after the baggage security check. The WiFi at Rodilla cafe near platform 15 works, and the nice person at Rodilla filled my water bottle with ice cold water for me.
Starting to wonder if I can get from the UK to Vancouver by freighter and long distance train for W3C TPAC in September. Definitely possible, but I'd need a good month and a half, and a few thousand $$. There were a lot more options before covid.
I have really enjoyed the DID WG not-face-to-face meetings this week. I still feel pretty lost in most of this, but looking back to almost two years ago when this started, I have learnt so much about so many topics I wasn't expecting to ever know anything about because of this work. I appreciate everyone in this group.
Unending gratitude to manu and others at Digital Bazaar for supporting me - financially, educationally and emotionally - to work in this stuff in the first place.
(It's been challenging at times, but not as emotionally fraught or generally stressful as the Social Web WG was. Maybe most of that is because I've grown since then, though, and also because it hasn't consumed my entire life like SWWG did..)
When I'm at IRL W3C face-to-face meetings my dreams are full of the participants every night for like a week, and it took longer to get started but turns out online ones are the same.
I am absolutely floored by the Ethical Web and Consentful Communications panels at TPAC. I hope the recordings are easily available cos there are so many people I want to share these with. Visions of hope for a better Web!
It's TPAC breakout week! I'm sad we can't do TPAC in person, but excited that I can join some sessions and some random IRC watercooler channels and imagine I'm seeing everyone around.
Leaving Toronto, Canada at 10:45pm (+00:00) on Thursday the 5th of November 2015 and arriving in Boston, MA, USA at 12:15am (+00:00) on Friday the 6th of November 2015
Leaving Tokyo, Japan at 9:50am (+00:00) on Thursday the 5th of November 2015 and arriving in Toronto, Canada at 8:45pm (+00:00) on Thursday the 5th of November 2015
Leaving Osaka, Japan at 7:00am (+00:00) on Thursday the 5th of November 2015 and arriving in Tokyo, Japan at 8:10am (+00:00) on Thursday the 5th of November 2015
Leaving Toronto, Canada at 7:00pm (+01:00) on Friday the 23rd of October 2015 and arriving in Tokyo, Japan at 7:50am (+01:00) on Friday the 23rd of October 2015
