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shannon_aBanshee Cries. Although our AirB&B is nice enough, it's got squeaky doors, and one of them sounds off like a banshee when it's closed. I know this because I fell asleep pretty well at 11.30pm last night, then I awoke at 1am to the banshee. I was thoroughly awake afterward, my body probably flooded with adrenaline. I felt like I was never going to get to sleep, and soon noticed that I was feeling tremendously overheated too, which I think was the result of the high humidity. I finally got up, opened the window, and laid down for what felt like forever, wondering how I was going to function at the design workshop without sleep. I did fall back asleep, probably within the next hour, but I never hit deep sleep again according to my Fitbit.
The First Day. Today was the first day of the seventh Rebooting the Web of Trust workshop. This has become pretty well laid out as the setup day, where we decide upon our papers and write an abstract. There's of course always some experimentation, and this time we got to do a futurist thought exercise and listen to the interests of some sponsors. While we were putting up topics for paper writing, I couldn't help but offer one of my own, "How to Convince Dad* of the Importance of Self-Sovereign Identity". It was based on some stuff that we'd talked about in the aforementioned exercise, and I thought it was too good to go by. Other people thought so too, so now I'm leading a group. We muddled through it a bit today and got out our abstract, and though it's a difficult problem, I think we can get at least a first cut of it out. And I've told the group I'd like someone to take over as leader before the end.
The Next RWOTs. After today's workshop, I talked with the leadership team about my changing situation in the next year and a half. We're considering some possibilities for my continuing to help in the future, and we're all under the understanding that it would involve me traveling not just from California, but from Hawaii. So, we'll see how that goes.
The Walk Home. Today was my day to walk toward our AirBnB. It's almost three hours walk from the conference space, so I didn't really think I was likely to make it all the way home, and in fact I solidified that within 15 minutes of my heading out by going toward the most interesting route home rather than the shortest.
First thought: Mississauga is huge and empty. There's these big office parks and empty fields and you just walk and walk and walk and don't get anywhere. There are huge, busy streets every where, and they're necessary because they're the only way to get anywhere! C. and I have both noted that it's all deceptive on the maps, because you look at the park sizes and the distances between the major roads and it seems much smaller than it actually is.
About 35 minutes in, I got to a neighborhood (finally!), and it was really nice. I love all the brick houses of the tree-filled yards. I love the neighborhoods with the narrow streets and the lack of sidewalks just makes it feel more small town. It reminds me of the midwest.
About 45 minutes in, I got to my intended destination: The Riverrun Park and the connected Riverview Park, and continuing trails heading south. They were quite nice, and well worth the walk. It was a very secluded trail that sometimes ran through woods and sometimes ran along the river. It was quiet and pleasant and enjoyable.
Eventually it got dark, and I decided I'd had enough. But Mississauga was so huge that I had to take a Lyft to dinner and then a Lyft home. Sigh.
The First Day. Today was the first day of the seventh Rebooting the Web of Trust workshop. This has become pretty well laid out as the setup day, where we decide upon our papers and write an abstract. There's of course always some experimentation, and this time we got to do a futurist thought exercise and listen to the interests of some sponsors. While we were putting up topics for paper writing, I couldn't help but offer one of my own, "How to Convince Dad* of the Importance of Self-Sovereign Identity". It was based on some stuff that we'd talked about in the aforementioned exercise, and I thought it was too good to go by. Other people thought so too, so now I'm leading a group. We muddled through it a bit today and got out our abstract, and though it's a difficult problem, I think we can get at least a first cut of it out. And I've told the group I'd like someone to take over as leader before the end.
The Next RWOTs. After today's workshop, I talked with the leadership team about my changing situation in the next year and a half. We're considering some possibilities for my continuing to help in the future, and we're all under the understanding that it would involve me traveling not just from California, but from Hawaii. So, we'll see how that goes.
The Walk Home. Today was my day to walk toward our AirBnB. It's almost three hours walk from the conference space, so I didn't really think I was likely to make it all the way home, and in fact I solidified that within 15 minutes of my heading out by going toward the most interesting route home rather than the shortest.
First thought: Mississauga is huge and empty. There's these big office parks and empty fields and you just walk and walk and walk and don't get anywhere. There are huge, busy streets every where, and they're necessary because they're the only way to get anywhere! C. and I have both noted that it's all deceptive on the maps, because you look at the park sizes and the distances between the major roads and it seems much smaller than it actually is.
About 35 minutes in, I got to a neighborhood (finally!), and it was really nice. I love all the brick houses of the tree-filled yards. I love the neighborhoods with the narrow streets and the lack of sidewalks just makes it feel more small town. It reminds me of the midwest.
About 45 minutes in, I got to my intended destination: The Riverrun Park and the connected Riverview Park, and continuing trails heading south. They were quite nice, and well worth the walk. It was a very secluded trail that sometimes ran through woods and sometimes ran along the river. It was quiet and pleasant and enjoyable.
Eventually it got dark, and I decided I'd had enough. But Mississauga was so huge that I had to take a Lyft to dinner and then a Lyft home. Sigh.