Monday, August 27, 2007

Packing


The initial stage of packing is done. I have most of what I'll be taking picked out, and almost all of it is bagged. I'm sure I'll find a better way of organising things, but for now it's one item per bag. T-shirts seem to fit in a quart-sized bag, which is a pleasant surprise.

Plug adapters (ungrounded) are sold at Fry's for $2 each, and the grounded variety are $5 each. That's not a bad price at all. That ought to cover all of my electronics devices, which are all dual-voltage.

One other thing: The image above was taken on my new digital camera, whee! Thank you everyone at AC(S|T), at UCSD. I spent today reading the manuals. Also cool is that I discovered a 1 GiB card I had wedged in a digital camera that I was going to use as a project, but never did much with. Score! I was able to take the picture on the camera, pull the card out, put it in Sparky, open it in The GIMP, then upload it to Blogger. That I got The GIMP working is rather exciting.

I have one or two more things to procure, and then I'll be all packed. I intend to take care of that tomorrow.

Friday, August 24, 2007

First Psot!

This marks the inaugural post of my travelogue blog, titled simply "☃".  I do not know whether I will keep this name, but it was available, and is certainly unique.

I've begun this blog in order to chronicle my trips to Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.  On 30 August, I get on a plane in San Diego, and -- via San Francisco -- end up in Japan for three weeks, before moving on to Australia for some undetermined amount of time, and finally on to New Zealand on a Work Holiday Visa.

The excitement begins in six days.