aliskye | Yesterday and today

I had to cancel a couple of plans yesterday in order to get stuff done for my upcoming camping trip. I really needed the time. One of the things though, I wish they would do some kind of reminder email. I know I'm not really good at calendaring things always but a reminder email would be really nice. (And I've spent enough time being the personal secretary for groups to not want to do it now). Okay...that was a whine.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to going to Yosemite. I have to do one more load of laundry and figure out the rest of what I'm taking with me. I can't figure what to wear. The weather is supposed to be in the 70's day time and in the 30's night time. I guess that means layers. I bought new boots though and they make me happy. They are very comfortable!

I've got a few things to do at work, but not much. A new King of the Hill script and revisions on Prison Break (which I'm sort of avoiding....I want to hold out for the shooting draft and not read all the revised writers drafts.)

I want to be on vacation now!!!

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Hope the camping trip was fun! Yosemite is sooo beautiful any time of year. (Re the email reminder... um, thought your email wasn't working... didja get it fixed? I hear you missed a whole lotta bad-guy "arresting"...)

The system at home is working (but I'm still in transition mode to change services) but I had email at work even when the system at home was down.

I'm heading for Yosemite on Thursday! With my new boots! :)

One thing that you need to do if you are driving yourself to Yosemite is to have your car thoroughly washed before you go. Apparently, bears can smell even the slightest residue of food even in a locked car and have been know to tear cars apart to find the smell. Bears at Yosemite are a big problem. You will have to keep all your food properly locked up in one of their bear resistant lockers. And when you are eating, you have to keep vigilent and not leave any food out unwatched. Not on tables, not in tents, nowhere but in the lockers. And if you have an incident with a bear, not only is it your own fault, you will be fined $5000 for not following the rules. I was there about ten years ago and saw the results of someone who locked their icechest in their car and not in the locker. Their car was badly messed up, for which the park rangers were most unsympathetic, and they got that $5000 fine on top of it all. A very expensive mistake.

I believe that forewarned is forearmed. When I went, I had no idea about the bears. Fortunately, we had no problems, but it was shocking to see what happened to the campers a couple of spaces over. And even more shocking to see the unsympathetic attitude of the park rangers.

The park itself is gorgeous, if overcrowded with too many tourists. But the sights are quite breath taking.

I hope that you have a wonderful, bear-free time!

Thanks for the info but I've been to Yosemite many many times and I'm familiar with the bear situation and the bear boxes and I'll be camping with my sister and her husband who are even more familiar with the park.

I'm expecting it will be less crowded then it used to be because they took out all the river campgrounds after the flood a few years ago.

I'm looking forward to hiking up to Vernal and Nevada Falls.

I can't wait!

Bring back pictures...yeah, pictrures!

What are you working as? You sound like a TV producer.

I handle legal clearances for a major television studio.

Sounds.. tough.

I love it. :) I read tv scripts all day long. I've worked on some major genre shows including X-files, Buffy, Angel and Firefly. :) Oh and 24.

Ooo, awesome! You read scripts, then what do you do?

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